FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

I can second that it's true they let you just truck period no bs

 

This is all true .

 

I'm not going anywhere lmao. I could see right away I made the right choice coming here.

 

Appreciate the info brother, I usually average 7.7-7.8 overall, so maybe it'll be alright then

 

You may take some minor hits in those instances where the fuel jumps and the surcharge updates a few days later, but additional margin will average the loss on that occasional day out over time. Not real sure I would ever do a lease purchase, but if I owned or financed a truck on my own, I can think of several far worse places to lease on.

 

I agree, a 3 digit USDOT# on the door tells me they'll survive.

 

I looked into FCC in late 2021. I didn't go with them. Just a dislaimer, I never spoke to a recruiter so my information may be outdated. Any FCC members, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong with any of my information.

From what I could gather though by asking members in this thread in late 2021, one OTR driver was making about 65k gross per year at $0.50 CPM base pay, with $0.06 CPM quarterly bonus.

With the way that inflation is going, $0.50 CPM, much less for drivers with 2 or more years experience, is too low. It doesn't matter how many miles you get on $0.50 CPM, that's not a good base pay at all.

I also didn't like the hometime policy (1 day off for every 7 worked is tied with other companies for the worst hometime in the business), forced fueling solutions and their $0.01 CPM per year doesn't even cover inflation. Though to be fair that's not unique to FCC, most companies in every sector do not give out adequate yearly raises, which forces employees to have to switch jobs every couple of years to get big increases in their yearly salaries.

FCC seems like a good place in many regards though, the shop gets good reviews, 68 MPH is nice, the people on this thread are all very nice and answered all of my questions in late 2021. From when I researched the thread back when guys used to update the forum on their routes on a regular basis, there are a lot of drop and hooks too, which is nice.

I just couldn't get past the pay and the hometime policy though. What really confuses me is why anybody would go OTR to only get 4 days off per month and STILL make less money than the regional guys who make about 20k more gross per year AND get 8 days off per month. That makes zero sense to me why anybody wouldn't just take the regional gig to make 20k more gross per year and get double the hometime, but I digress.

 

I checked them out too, awhile back, spoke with a recruiter. Some of us don’t live in the proper location for the regional jobs. I live in western Ohio, and didn’t qualify for their Midwest Regional. That was mainly why I didn’t go with them.

 

That probably has more to do with the drivers themselves than anything. The rate per mile is actually higher with OTR than regional. It's actually paid as a separate item on the paystub as a pay differential.
If you compared the same few drivers and they were ALL regional, or ALL OTR, I would gamble that the pay difference would remain about the same.