Beware of WEL companies

They're the only carrier I've had this problem with, I generally wasn't stuck with bad routes or railroaded into late loads, of every carrier ive been with their pay ultimately was the worst (and factually only place I've ever had sub $600 paychecks every week

Most of the other places I was 1800-2800miles

WEL i was lucky to get 1300 miles a week the last 3 months I was there, their lanes were just awful and it being winter didn't help, even the other awful reefer company i worked for could get me 1600miles a week every week

Not gonna lie think reefer just isn't my thing at this point because I'm making nothing at it, I'm fine at admiting I'm probably just awful at reefer but I was still getting shorted when I wasn't late so no telling even the other company I made money with garunteed despite bad miles but wel never honored it

Van and tanker i was making adequate money then it just slowed down out of nowhere and I moved on to the next place and the fluctuations in my pay ultimately resulted from poor maintenance with the other companies (every trailer has a blown tire, light out, airbag blown, shocks are out, leaking air)

Wel had great equipment at least? Only thing good i can say about em but I never got handed anything decent even from the start, never got handed anything over 1000 miles and I honestly don't do well with short distance freight, also the only carrier I've ever been limited to east coast basically. I make my money doing runs from California to NY, Washington to Florida, PA to Nevada/Arizona

More docks i hit in a week the lower my pay is usually

 

6 carriers in 4 years, orientation with 4 carriers i didnt sign on with

 

I know i can do long distance 1500+ miles loads, I proved reliable on them, i was good with FedEx freight and 24/7 drop and hooks

Tanker was easy and made money every time except winter or when I was doing the port run BS or permit loads (paid diffently, low miles but fair pay)

Tanker i know i did my job, was great at it and often got in a day or 2 early

Van, Drop&Hook and team freight i did my job

Reefer was just low miles altogether, east coast low miles

My best money is running anything west of I65 and anything east of I-5

I know the lanes i make money, I just can't get them consistently

 

Long loads with tanker wasnt a problem, haul it early, if they won't take early collect layover if your company does right by its drivers or take a part day off if it's still same day delivery

The fedex freight i did my original co driver and I were hitting 2800-4000 miles a week each we had the grind, was good and we worked well but we later went solo

I do a lot better with high amount of drop and hooks for van

tanker i still got decent money because I figured out my routes, and nomatter the company food grade had identical customers and practices

I never liked the close time loads simply because if a hiccup does occur you get blamed for the planning, and I'm not one to take the fall for a planner in an office

Did better with the freight that's basically get there any time before on time which is mostly what my Van and tanker experience was

Now I know what you're gonna say why not do LTL? I don't really like the whole uniform jockey thing or daycabs otherwise I would

(If yall actually know any LTL companies with linehaul that have solo sleeper cab and no uniform requirement I'd actually be interested in hearing)