So what is your LTL company paying?

I guess I'll jump in, as a Transportation (linehaul) driver with Dayton Freight. Last Friday was my final check for the 2019 YTD number and I made a little over $96,200. It would've been a little better had I taken a bid run last January, but I chose to bid open for the 1st 6 months for some reason (we bid twice per year). It was pretty slow for our open drivers for most of the 1st half of 2019, so I decided to take an easy 500-mile run in July. That helped make up for the slow start of the year.

The bid I just took for the first half of this year made my buddy $105k last year. We had some movement on our board with some higher mileage runs added so a lot of us are moving up this year. Now the challenge is to be responsible with the extra income!

Happy New Year, y'all.

 

Is that before taxes

 

Three years in at Brown. Loving my job. Very happy. The starvation is over.

 

Yes, deductions ouch! But I am systems (unassigned driver no bid) and still going through wage progression, claim married and 0 for taxes so hopefully I don't owe at end of year, and take almost every every benefit offered (life insurance, ADD,LTD, ect) except for maybe 1 or 2, because I don't want to leave my wife hanging if I croak or get killed on the job, here was my net.

 

Dayton is one of the non-union companies I hold in VERY high regard.

 

That's mainly what kills it for me, I am not even top scale yet, but that's not it, it's that slow time where I get bit, the run cuts and shorter miles, can't do nothing about it, however I am still pleased because honestly I netted more at this job than I grossed at a job I had two years ago.

 

It's all about improvement. Each year better than the last, unless you are in a position to take a break.

 

No break yet lol, two main goals now, is make top scale and a bid run, but who knows when the latter will happen, main thing is so far I am hanging in there with systems so things are good, now if by the time I am 50 and I am still on systems, well then I may have to reconsider a life and career change lol.

 

98,500 this year with UPSF. This is my best year I've had in my career.