Port work?

1099 or W-2 and what's the pay per run. Look at what's going on with the port drivers in LA. They're paid 1099 and treated like W-2 drivers. Most don't see money in their pocket until they run the 6th or 7th day, and usually $300 each day at that....

 

You are going to find that you always wait. But NEVER long enough to be paid anything at all. Then you will find that there might be no money in that particular run. And you wonder why the previous driver quit, leaving that particular route open for you to come along and be hired.

My experience is in the Baltimore, Greater Norfolk and Chester Ports combined with several railheads in that area. The amount of waiting for everything is something that might have gotten people killed by now if I did not quit after several months of constantly falling asleep trying to get a big truck home after waiting all #### day.

I even petitioned my company owner to issue basic sleepers for those who are hung out to camp and wait all day or couple of days.

In those days there was no cells, no digital, no internet no nothing.

"Call me back in a hour." Dispatching is in effect. So... 8 am call in, no load? hang up. 9 am call in no load? hang up. 10 PM nap and miss the hourly call in, get chewed out for being lazy at 10:40 to 11:10 Call back in at noon, 1,2,3,4,5 and finally 6.. take a chassis back here Im going home."

Thats from working getting up at 11PM to the truck and rolling by 3 am arrive in Norfolk at 8 AM. And at 10PM you are still fighting to get back to Baltimore in commute knowing you need to roll out of there again by 3 am next morning.

Forget going home to sleep 5 days, recline for a nap in the lounge until dispatch hollars your truck number. Head out. Plan on resting the weekend. Run with no sleep the whole week.

And so. It was necessary to quit Port East back then. Too much sleeping while driving and almost killing people. It's not necessary.

 

Container hauling is a big hassle. I did it for about a year and a half. Always heavy. I live down south. Might be a little better where you are

 

That's a dime a dozen type job. I hauled cans off the piers in New Jersey for a couple years in a M-F day cab job. I wouldn't be interested unless it was paid on an hourly wage W-2, which it was when I was doing it. Like Old school trucker said it can be a pain in the butt dealing with the ports and the longshoremen. Bring a good book or have a bunch of YouTube to catch up on. That is an 11-12 hour day every day easy they are trying to wrangle you into so the money better be there or forget it.

 

Heh. Gotta beat that traffic into Seattle. AND back out.

 

Forget that 17 an hour.
You would have never seen it.