Should I ask for more money?

For a home every night job it depends on the area. Some areas you can make twice that with no trouble. Some areas that's good money.

So it's to you to decide what you'll work for, and it depends on how desperate you are. Some places might be willing to negotiate, some won't. You can always ask.

 

Show your dispatcher you're an excellent driver hen I bet he puts in a good word.

 

Company match will be a small percentage of your contribution to 401K, I think when we did ours with the Government, we captured their max contribution at about 6% each payroll not a dime more. Vested 100% in a few years which turned into a 7 year annuity pay out at a 10% tax penalty loss to start off. We still did well with it, but the experience was less than optimal.

You will be told what you will be paid and if you don't like it, you will likely be shipped back home or told that you need to get home yourself. In other words not hired. 7.50 a drop isnt much. It's essentially minimum wage for less than a hour of your time. Benefits will probably run you way more than 50 a week once you understand the true cost of medical insurance etc.

Back Haul is just another load coming back to where you started. It's nothing special. You finish one load and you get another coming back. It should work out to at least your basic mile pay.

You can be home most nights like they told you, but you might not have the full 10 hours off at home when factoring in commute times and so on. When I did flatbed up to 4 loads a day I would put in a full 16 hours and have less than 8 to get meal, sleep, get meal and go for the new day> I ended up transferring to a sleepr truck so that Im gone a week at a time at the same payroll numbers. The experience of regional sleeper was less than optimal due to really restrictive speeds per company policy at that time.

If you are not leaving your past employer at say... .35 a mile for a new employer that pays MORE per mile and so on such as .40, don't bother leaving that last employer. Going from .35 to .36 or whatever is not a improvement. You can actually net more than that easily by skipping a retail coffee cup once a week.

 

Always ask for more money. Worst they can say is no

 

If you could average 50 miles per hour on all hours worked ( you wont) you would be making 18.00 a hour. I find the drop pay and mileage pay offensive.

 

Nobody should be paid 36 cents per mile if home every night. And you have good experience. I'd think near 50 cents per mile. How many miles ran in a week? Home daily food truck guys like sysco are $21 a hour.

 

I live in a dead area. Like you can not even name.