What's it like to drive for a final mile service or dcs? What's the typical day like? What's the equipment like and what type of license or endorsements are needed? What do they haul? Is it a little bit like food service? Any company that solely does this? Do they load and unload there own trailer? Any help would be appreciated, thank you...
final mile service and dcs (dedicated contract services)
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Ddr1992 579, Jul 17, 2021.
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3 days and no one answered so I’ll give you what little I know. I answered an add not knowing and got a conversation with a DCS recruiter. Basically it goes like this ( for the job she and I were discussing anyway) :
This was appliance delivery. So you would go to either the shipper or a cross dock facility and pick up a load of say, dishwashers. Full load. Then you drive to a new apartment complex and one by one, unload and install those dishwashers. All of them. When you emptied your truck or finished that complex, you started over with either more appliances at the same job site or somewhere else. I think it was mostly local to that area, in my case the triangle area of NC, and they wanted you “on site” at least 8 hours per day not counting driving time. Paid by the piece. DCS has their hands in all kinds of stuff but that’s what she wanted me to apply for that day.
I turned her down then and there. I have spent too much of my life trying to get a tractor trailer in and around apartment complex and hotel job sites already. When I make a change it certainly won’t be to something like that. It’ll be drop and hook or bumping actual docks...Ddr1992 579 and Speed_Drums Thank this. -
Another account they have is target. Unloading 2-4 trailers a night on roller rack by yourself.
You pick up each individual box and put it on roller until you are done. Then I guess you go to another DC to pick up a trailer then drive to another Target and repeat. -
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I know that account paid about $1650 a week. Start around 3-5 am and about 10-12 hrs a day.
In Chicago, if you have experience, you can get same pay or more for less physical work.The Shadow Thanks this.
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