LTL vs OTR

$80,000 vs. $40,000 . . .

Made my mind up years ago.

Never looked back.

Now . . . Hard work vs. Quality of life argument . . . That's up to you.

 

I was going to do ltl, I decoded to haul fuel local instead. I enjoy it a lot and think you'll like being home every weekend. I prefer to work weekend though, more $$$$

 

What FFE is offering is not traditional LTL, like YRC, Saia, Old Dominion, etc, so it will not be much different than OTR except you will make a few extra stops. .35cpm is very low for a mileage based LTL driver, they are usually in the .60cpm range, so you will not make much more money than an OTR job, but it will give you experience in route planning and such that will help you in the future if you do go for a local run.

 

You are saying 80k for otr and 40k for ltl right? As in you made up your mind years ago to stay OTR?

 

Pretty sure he means $80k for ltl and $40k for otr.

 

I should have said 'respectively'.

Figured the miles × cpm ÷ time spent away from home equation early on.

LTL offers me $16.80 for every hour spent away from home - sleeping or driving, or -

about $35/hr while driving . . . or . . . $2015 gross each week . . . or . . . between 70k and 90 k gross per year.

Lots of different ways to look at it, overall, it appealed for the best home time and regularity thereof , best compensation - ( not "if you do this, and if you do that" cpm compensation ), and best benefits.

7 years later, I'll still pick an LTL carrier over any other.

Here's the miles, here's the truck. Take these trailers, drop em and go. Till you're sick if it. Waiting? Paid. Breakdown? Paid.

Unloading? They pay someone else to do that. It says "COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE" - not "THIS GUY WAITS OR WORKS FOR FREE".

My 2 cents. OTR was fun for a while. LTL is still OTR, just not "4 weeks gone, low paid, free work OTR".

 

both...

We do LTL long haul and the money is good..

 

I work for a bottom of the Barrel Pay LTL company. I make .46cpm 18.05hr for any hourly, wait time, break down, fuel, drop & hook, empty, loaded, hell bobtail(I've bobtail 500 miles before). I'm on a schedule(bid) after 1yr of extraboard(no schedule waiting for a phone call, work anytime any day). Home every other day and off 48hrs every week. It is nights during the week. I'm on pace for 73-75k I've been off since 5am Sat morning, don't go to work til mon evening.

BlairandGhretchen is being pretty modest saying he makes 80k. Drivers in Old D make serious money, talking Walmart money 100k+.

Not hard to get a LTL Linehaul job or P&D(local city driver). They are going to job fairs cause it's hard to find drivers. Right now they hire here and there but in April it's a hiring frenzy cause it gets slammed.