Snackbar's new adventure at Moore Freight Services
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How long do you stay out? Is there any pay other than mileage?
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They pay detention after 3 hours, $50 holiday pay after 90 days, $100 layover after 24 hours and on the occasion that you have to live load, they pay you a $30 load fee. Short haul pay is $150 for loads under 200 miles (plus $.55/mile for the empty miles to return to the plant). Loads between 200-300 miles pay $200 (plus the $.55/mile for empty miles back to the plant)
The empty miles are paid different here. You are paid for the empty miles you run after delivery instead of before. And...are paid before you run them. Deliver the afternoon of payroll cutoff, and you are paid for the load and return miles even if it will be days later before you get to the plant.Protein Hauler, Lonesome and 4mer trucker Thank this. -
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As for the danger, as @drvrtech77 pointed out, you have to work around the glass to unsecure it...if it's broke (and everyone who hauls glass will have some breakage at some point), you still have to get it unloaded, and to do that you have to unsecure it, which means you have to put yourself next to the broken load to release it. Plus, every edge of the glass is razor sharp. The advice from the experienced drivers I have spoken to is "you're gonna get cut, it's not an 'if' but a 'when', keep some of those small tubes of superglue with you. It's cheaper than a container of 'newskin' and works just as good". One of my unloads in PA doesn't use gloves because he likes to go by feel when picking up the glass off the trailer. He was 1/2 thru unloading me when he bumped his knuckle on an edge...he dropped the remote for the crane and quickly trotted to the 1st aid kit. He had sliced about 3" of his knuckle, from just a bump...and he has been working around glass 30 years... He said the same thing, cuts are gonna happen, even when you have your safety gear on. When that customer I mentioned dropped that pack of glass, if a driver had been near it, they could have been seriously hurt or killed.Sirscrapntruckalot, FalconsFan21, Protein Hauler and 3 others Thank this. -
My first winter OTR involved going to Lexington KY to collect Auto Glass for GM in Baltimore. It's fun. Didnt break any that I know of otherwise they would have yelled. Specifically windshields for GM Astro vans. (Ugh...) It also involved big snow that year in the mountains of WVa. I suppose it's a great practice because that truck absolutely has to be there to get that glass. Otherwise the factory will stop. And that's very expensive.
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Sounds like you don't have to flip flop days and nights. I would guess most all deliveries at days shift. How many miles a week do you average? What system do they use for their mileage caculations?
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