Wanting to make the swap from food delivery to LTL

You’re not going to make $80+k out of the gate in your location right out of the gate, you’re looking at a couple years on a seniority board in ltl in Indy for that to comfortably happen. Aim for FedEx Freight, I think they’re the best LTL outfit in the country.

 

Old Dominion Freight Line
Website
3915 W Morris St, Indianapolis, IN 46241
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Indianapolis - Estes Express Lines
Indianapolis - LTL, Volume, Truckload & Time Critical Freight Shipping | Estes | Estes Express Lines
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R+L Carriers
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14949 W State Road 28, Alexandria, IN 46001
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If you go P&D, not only will you bust your ### humping 2k-4K skids, but you’ll go places no tractor-trailer should even be considered to go.

 

Granted that he's got experience in food service, I'll bet he's used to squeezing a trailer where it shouldn't be. Biggest difference is that he'll have a pallet jack to help unload instead of his vertebrae and a 2 wheeler.

 

Touche.

 

I've always had to be humble when comparing truck sectors against food service. I used to have a sales route in (beverage) South Boston many years ago, had about 180 accounts that I would visit between multiple times a week, bi-weekly, etc. Before I bumped up from South Boston I was south of the city. When I'd go downstairs into customer basements, I'd be amazed at not only where these drivers would put a trailer where it wasn't supposed to be, but the sheer danger of constantly going down into basements with spiral staircases, greasy stairs, broken stairs, gravel basements etc. Most if not all of these customers demanded that the product be delivered into these excrement holes. Before I even got into trucking, food service ranked at the top of my "f--- that" list.

At times I wished I was hourly instead of commission because I hammered the hell out of the 3 drivers that were always in my area.