Which LTL's will hire out of school?

Yeah I feel your pain. We keep losing dock workers as well, we pay them so low essentially we train them to go work somewhere else for more money.

I also can't imagine how they plan to run things once they switch to e-logs. Reddaway is good to get your foot in the ltl door before getting a better job.

 

Hey OP... Come to think of it. If you do Reddaway, try line haul. More pay, less drama. You just have to work nights. The happiest I was professionally was when I ran line haul. 3 minutes of communication with central dispatch per night. A list of trailers I was taking and my destination terminal. Quick check in when I arrived, then they told me what to take back. Worked 50 hours a week... Made close to $65k a year

 

I agree, I run line and it is really a good gig as far as being easy and hardly any communication being required. They do have you stay home when there isn't enough work which does suck. They will also volunteer you to work p&d at terminals where you are needed. That really sucks because you don't make much money and live out of a hotel room.

 

Depends on the carrier for both questions. With us, P&D makes a lot less than line. I went from about $65-$67k a year to about $54K when I went P&D.

We are allowed to decline being loaned out to foreign terminals. A while back ago, someone asked me if I wanted to go to Seattle for a week to help out. I almost jumped on it cause those guys up there make around $32/hour, but then I was told: Nope, you will still run at your home terminal wage of $19.65/hour. Yeah ok... deal with the chaos of Seattle traffic for the same pay I get back at home. Cheap labour. No thank you.

Oh yeah, you get to live out of a hotel as well. No guarantee that you would even make the same as you would at home. You also got to have a ziplock baggy filled with all your receipts if you expect to be reimbursed for eating. Then company finance will take their time to file everything and pay you on what they think is a fair daily food allowance. Another big no thank you.

 

@op I wrote this up a couple of years ago. Maybe you will benefit from it, but it pretty much sums up the typical day of linedriver:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/typical-day-of-a-linedriver.209092/

 

I agree. Line is better than P&D. Better pay, less drama, less of a headache over all. That is if you can stand driving nights. So you'll need all endorsments to drive in the end, but when I started they gave me a couple of months to get my hazmat...was the only one I didn't have.

 

When you run line, you will not have a social life. Work all night, sleep most of the day. People look at you weird when you are sitting there drinking beer at 08:30 in the morning. "What? I just got off of work.". And drinking beer in the morning really IS the only time you can do it before you crash for the day.

Chances are you also won't have a regular Sat/Sun weekend. I worked Friday night thru Saturday morning. The whole reason why I got off line is cause of all my social events I wanted to pursuit on weekends. Plus chasing girls around

Not sure who it was on here... But he said:. Go find and marry a nurse that also works nights.