Thanks, I appreciate your insight! I haven’t made the decision to do this yet, I’m still in the consideration phase. We’ll see what happens.
Living in the truck…..
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@HiramKingWilliams--I think post #25 here (RockinChair) asked a fair question.
You could do sleeper/OTR work for Love's--why would you want to leave them?
They are easily one of the best gigs/jobs out there (especially in fuel hauling)....why not just stay with them--and put in for a regional/OTR job there?
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Giving up a good job and going to work for a mega so you can live in a truck makes just about as much sense as doing a truck flease. Stay where you’re at driver.
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With the DEF cap issue, I only get breakdown pay if it's for 24 hours. I believe that is the norm in W2 reefer and dry van companies. In LTL that is not the case and at Estes breakdown pay starts right away for the linehaul guys (who are on the same CPM pay system that the OTR drivers are on). Unfortunately for OTR that is (for the vast majority of companies anyways) not the case.
Yes I'm like you I like reefer work as well. I like driving into the night but if I'm driving at night time I like to shut it down before 3:00am or if I have to drive mornings, I would rather not start until 4:00am. And usually I can manage my clock so that I can achieve those time frames of starting and ending. Of course my body is used to Eastern and Central time, so when I go out West with the long loads that reefer drivers tend to get I can "cheat" my body clock because I gain 1-2 hours from central time zone so if I start at 2:00am out in Seattle it's really like 4:00am central time or 5:00am eastern time lol.Another Canadian driver and ESAFO Thank this. -
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With the DEF cap issue, I only get breakdown pay if it's for 24 hours. I believe that is the norm in W2 reefer and dry van companies.
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That's not the norm for any reefer outfit I've driven for. We got a hotel room, meals, hourly pay.
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But again there's plenty of positives to OTR trucking too and I'm one of the drivers who switched from a good paying LTL job back to an OTR reefer job. So he's not alone, that's for sure. Just be aware of the negatives.
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So what you had was not the norm I don't think but again, it would really help drivers out if you listed some of those reefer and dry van W2 companies that pay breakdown before 24 hours and that pay detention before 2 hours after the appointment time. I researched a lot of companies in late 2021 and I couldn't find any that had that type of pay for detention and breakdown (again Marten being the exception for detention).
I don't know of any OTR company that would pay a driver for what I had to do yesterday to get the DEF capped replaced from 1830 - 2015 (driving to and from the Peterbilt shop, waiting in line at the parts desk, checking out at the parts desk and trying to figure out the Purchase Order Money Code, etc. etc.).Another Canadian driver, Chinatown, Sirscrapntruckalot and 1 other person Thank this.
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