Living in the truck…..

Discussion in 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here' started by HiramKingWilliams, Feb 14, 2022.

  1. HiramKingWilliams

    HiramKingWilliams Heavy Load Member

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    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.
     
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  3. lual

    lual Road Train Member

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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?

    --Lual
     
  4. BM 58

    BM 58 Heavy Load Member

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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.
     
  5. Bean Jr.

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    @motocross25 you say that you liked him and his 14 page ramblings. @BeHereNow97 has channeled his inner heavy!
     
  6. Last Call

    Last Call Road Train Member

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    IDK...@Dino Soar..write's a few novels on here
     
  7. motocross25

    motocross25 Road Train Member

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    Haha! Man you’re not lying. That’s what I was thinking! X1Heavy 2.0
     
  8. BeHereNow97

    BeHereNow97 Heavy Load Member

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    Thanks China! With the detention pay, I guess one of the points of my post was to highlight that even with the detention pay, it wouldn't have made that day worthwhile and that my hourly wage for the day would have still been very, very bad no matter how you sliced it.

    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.
     
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  9. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    @BeHereNow97
    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.
    Doesn't matter now; that's in the past.
     
  10. BeHereNow97

    BeHereNow97 Heavy Load Member

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    Lol I did write a lot, probably too much. But anybody whose done OTR and who read the time frames of what my day entailed yesterday and how much money that actually came out to at the end of the day, they can attest that this is the reality of OTR trucking sometimes. Where you just have days that the hourly wage is absolutely terrible no matter which way you slice it and OP needs to be aware of that if he's thinking of giving up a good local fuel paying job (paid by the hour) and switching to OTR.

    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.

    And yeah, Xheavy1 was the man! I miss his posts, whether or not he was telling the truth in them who knows lol, but he really did have a way with his words. He was like the Shakespeare of the Truckers Report Forum lol.
     
  11. BeHereNow97

    BeHereNow97 Heavy Load Member

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    Well that's good that you were able to find good companies that offered you that type of thing. I hope you will share them on here when you recommend companies on here because all of the W2 reefer and dry van companies that you recommend on the forum (which is super helpful by the way I know you've helped me out a lot with my research), have a similar type of detention policy (starts 2 hours after the appointment time, Marten being the lone exception of detention pay starting immediately at appointment time) and breakdown policy (starts after 24 hours) that I have at my company.

    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.).
     
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