My Experience as a Line Haul Driver

well first i gotta say i DO NOT like this "new" layout, seems cheap and way too bright, not to mention a PIA to use.

Anyway, Monday, i got to work and the fuel pump wasnt working, so we had to bobtail to the pilot up the street to fuel, then I went to atlanta with a van because the normal ATL driver was off. I even had to scale this POS load, 32,000lb load, 32,000lb MT weight and i was 31,800 on the tandems, 63,xxx gross. Made it down to the terminal at midnight and hit the dock around 12:15am. Got my paper work headed home at 1am. As usual i had to go to the shop first for coolant, then i was attempting to find a good (legal) dolly for my set home and another one of our charlotte drivers asked were my back trailer was because he had a van going back and he didnt want to leave a good dolly in ATL, so he dropped it in front of my trailer and i went to go hunt down my front trailer, came back backed it up to the dolly got out, spent 10 min fighting the pintle hook on the front trailer, then come to find that when moveing the dolly he had ran over and ripped off one of the air lines so i had to get a machanic to come replace it. then took my light set back to charlotte, was back around 630am and on the dock before 7am. We got out at 745am.


Tuesday:

fueled at the pilot again, ran my normal run to va, got back around 430am, on the dock by 445am. Worked the dock till 9am then came home





American Trucker

 

yea i know i "may" have made the wrong choice. oh well sheet happends





American Trucker

 

Thats because this job sucks! I can deal with doing the same run everynight, but this dock work crap, and crap equipment, and sheet pay sucks!





American Trucker

 

i work for one of the lowest paying LTL companies, most pay alot better even for the new guys. But what makes LTL "the best job ever" for some guys is when you reach the top of seniority with the bigger companies and your working 40-50hrs a week, have a nice truck, never break a sweat, get any time off you need, all while makeing $100,000+ a year, Union companies even come with a pension.





American Trucker

 

Oh i wont be here long, if i dont find something better by the time i've been here a year i'll take the exp on my resume and go back OTR. Till then im keeping my eyes open. There is a place up the street that put a "hireing CDL drivers" sign out front yesterday, nice 2007 (and newer) 379s/389s all red with lots of chrome/lights, they only work 7am-5pm mon-fri im going to check them out and see what the deal is.




American Trucker