Looking for anything right now temporarily

Sorry to say that theres not much to do besides go into the shipping office and tell them "ive been here for 2 hours and truck isnt loaded why the f am I still here"

Its just a fact youre not going to hit 3000 miles EVERY week as a solo driver if youre not running longer runs out west and #### sure not going to if youre running east coast. Running I95 youre EXTREMELY lucky to get 2,000 miles a week, its the name of the game unless youre treated like gold being with a company 10+ years or youre a linehaul/dedicated driver

As of right now yeah im out here to drive and make as much as i can possibly, higher pay means more pay security on bad weeks more flexibility for time off if you need or want it, most people still have lives besides a truck and we know winter months are unreliable

Most companies calculate their driver pay expectations at 2500 miles a week and and real company leaving proper time scheduling calculates travel speed at either 50-55mph (meaning most carriers are only willing to put on the line that youre gonna run approximately 45 hours of your clock a week) which tells me bare minimum id need .62 cpm to meet what I desire to work 52 weeks a year

Yes theres variables, yes theres good weeks, yes theres good and bad companies and shippers everyone's experience is different but if youre looking at the hard base number thats what you can expect, calculate the pay by 2500 miles a week 52 weeks a year and thats what you earn if you never go home

later in my career once i get what im looking for id definitely knock driving back to about 46 weeks a year

And im sorry anyone whos looking to happily slop up a lower pay job in any capacity and orefer or enjoy it is just not an intelligent person, the fact youre telling me I should be happy with 50cpm tells me youre purposely trolling

 

Read?

Called Walmart, called my dispatch, called breakdown, had ops manager call me, emailed Walmarts dispatch per direction of my dispatch. Traded emails with my breakdown and walmarts for 4 hours, no one was ever sent out about the reefer and I had no hours left to take it anywhere and it was a Saturday night

Made every necessary phone call and email, both Walmart and my company chose to say #### it and let everything on the trailer go bad, had me drop it in walmarts yard next day

Did my job, dont see why youre acting like its my fault they're incompetent, im not a thermo king repair

 

4 years isnt paying your dues yes walmarts hiring at 3 years for 100k a year

So id say by 3 years any driver who doesnt have a ton of accidents or does nothing is worth $80,000-$110,000 a year

You never stop learning and never said you dont but you sure like putting words in my mouth dont you? I dont run the northeast and thats it and I dont care enough about the northeast to learn how to better haul it, money or not for carriers I dont make money there and thats what matters to me

I grew up around truckers, a few uncles and family friends drive trucks even have small authorities near the STL area, my grandmother drove for a few small carriers in the 50s/60s and old dominion in the 70s (and my family is banned from working for old dominion because of what she did....its a long ### story involving a lawyer scam) and my dad had a class B for a time

You help other drivers out when you can and thats a given you act like i dont do all the normal courteous things, ive even helped owner ops do some major repairs and landed a hand because I wasn't doing #### on a 34 reset and they bought me a meal or a beer.

I know you never stop learning in trucking because just back in January I met a 92 year old trucker out here walking with a cane said he still hauls flatbed and refrigerated, dude looks old enough and run down like he came out of the retirement home but sure as hell hes kickin and still chosing to do what he enjoys and it put a smile on my face and you neglect i dipped my toes into lease op already, it wasn't hard I just wasn't willing to roll the dice given i didnt have any money and my company driver didn't have much either if anything had gone wrong or broke down we'd of been screwed

I've been out here long enough to know walking away is reasonable in this market because if freights slow they aren't gonna recover for a while

Don't stand for a company robbing you

Always be on your dispatchers ### about miles if youre sitting with nothing to do and hours on the clock

We cant hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to give us miles or demand more money upfront but we do what we legally can to further our career and bank account

Not to mention i go out of my way to always stalk the mechanics if im broke down in the shop, I try to repair everything myself or learn how unless its complicated or large parts, I can even rewire an entire tanker trailer if necessary, vans are a bit more annoying

 

I dont care how they feel, if I have hours on my clock and im not under a load im #### sure giving them a phone call im here for money

 

Update with Big G, no idea what they're doing, they asked for employment verification approval again, i sent it then sent me the full application and asked me to fill it out multiple times

Strange recruiting department, no idea what they're doing