ESTES Express (5 Year Review)

I think the first of January and the first of June if you aren't enrolled. You'd have to talk with your own personal HR lady to be certain. It's definitely 100% dollar for dollar up to 7%

yes it's the top pay for extra board. For the linehaul home daily guys like me the top out is .77!

 

Yes! Linehaul is the comprised of 3 different things... Scheduled runs (home daily linehaul guys with a set route.), Extra board (regional otr terminal to terminal.) And teams (schedule team run, extra board team and flex team).

Teams is has it's own little seniority thing within itself but it's still linehaul. The only difference is teams literally take priority over everyone no matter what. If a team needs freight, they'll take it from anyone and give it to the team. It's happened to me. It's also harder to go from team to regular linehaul or extra board tho. It's a lot to explain but they all still fall under the same umbrella.

A team with 5 years seniority still trumps a guy with 4 years and 364 days of seniority. If the team splits, it adds 2 guys with linehaul experience back into the pool. Before their seniority kicks in tho, they'll have to run extra board for 90 days. Same with terminal transfers.

Your seniority follows you everywhere you go. When you go to a new terminal, you'll just have to run the board for 90 days and then your seniority kicks in.

 

Look man... Estes operates just like any other big company with it's own system. You can wear whatever you want to work from a tailored suit to full military gear. They do not care. I think you have to stay with the company a year until you can transfer.

Look man as long as you get in you get in. Eat 6 months to a year on the team truck then try to get off. Eventually you will but teams are very important so they won't just let you move right off like that. That'll piss them off.

 

Man up lol.

It's not even hard bro. I hook my dolly on the back of my lead trailer and hook it up that way. Saves time and it's better.

 

Those Estes West dudes are super secretive about the pay. Do the Californians make way more than we do? They never wanna talk about it!