How much do you earn gross per year?

i have no clue why, but i know what you mean, i remember hating delivering to the warehouse i work out of now....

 

Anyone out there familiar with the term 'slow freight days'

 

Yeah... Yellow is doing phenomenal. I work non union and if I made what you made I'd have to move into an apartment... just saying. Trucking is all over the spectrum because of the enormous amount of difference in cargo moved and markets in play regarding cargo/commodities moved via trucks. Speaking in such general terms (all, none, etc..) doesn't work well. Union or non-union, trucking is all over the place. It becomes a matter of experience and personal preference.

 

I always go to the one in phoenix I don't get it they unload super fast but the receiver takes forever.

 

no one can just say yrc is doing bad, the whole ltl industry is taking it in the shorts, nonunion drivers alike. conways benefits have gone down massively, abf took cuts in pay and vacation to keep floating the pension, and viatran got bought by central transport, turning a crappy company into a Really crappy company. everyone loves to talk up OD, but everyone also glosses oveer the fact that you will work long hours yet not get OT pay, same thing over at R+L.

ltl is going the way of the dinosaur, it doesnt matter where you work, conway and fredex and OD are not bound to usin their own drivers when they have truckload drivers that will do it for half price.


btw, if the small difference in pay between yours and yrc drivers would put you in an apartment, i sounds like you are close to one either way. the highest paid ltl drivers are upsf, and they are making, what, 6 bucks over yrc?

 

thats right! I remember that, the load comes off fast, but you end up waiting anyway, lol....

 

YRC is DEFINITIVELY doing very poor. Furthermore, there's a saying about assuming that would be applicable here. All I'm trying to say is that union work is not necessarily the be all, end all savior that it's made out to be. I have nothing against unions, union employment is just not for me. If you don't think that a six dollar difference per hour is significant (6.00 x 70= 420.00... representative of the maximum pay difference in a week between the two. Oh and by the way that equates to a maximum monthly income of difference of $1,680.00) then you may want to reevaluate your understanding of rudimentary home ecomomics. Why is it that if I or anybody else isn't pro union we are immediately dubbed "union bashers"? Lucky for me, I have a job that enables me to experience the sort of earning difference demonstrated above. Also, I operate a single income household and the types of income differences we are talking here are what we call IMPACTING. Typical presumptuous twist.

 

60520 gross last year. Home daily, usually twelve hour workdays. Weekends off. Average night is about 400 miles. Non union, small family run company. Annual Christmas bonus of 10% of gross earnings, so my bonus was 6500 last year. But we only have health insurance, at 80 a week for family, two paid weeks of vacation per year, no other benefits though