Been getting hounded by a contract mail carrier for linehaul, BUT!

1st I did work hauling mail many years ago. I worked out of Jacksonville FL terminal for mail contractors of America in the 90s .And I think the more things change the more they stay the same often times.Mail hauling always seems to anyway.The companies always throw out that per hour pay with the health and welfare( you will lose the H$W pay after 40 the only job I’ve ever had that if you work over 40 your money went down didn’t pay ot either)it’s a pretty good hourly rate but how many hours will you actually work is always been the thing. like I said I worked out of the Jacksonville terminal there wer 30 drivers there and only 5 would get 40 to 46 hours a week the rest 32 to 36.So they decided to haul regular freight to create more revenue but that didn’t pay the same way lower rate you didn’t get the hourly rate for that.They offer set routes but there no telling how long that will last they changed constantly the health insurance cost is insanely expensive and you have to be covered via the post office requirements that what I quit for. me and my daughter was going to$160 a week in the 90s

 

I drove for 10roads in Fairbanks years ago.Whatever route you are dispatched on had a set time to be completed.If the route said 4 hours and you were finished in 3 hours,you still got paid for 4 hours.Linehaul probably has a longer route,might take all day.Some of them are switch routes,meet another driver somewhere and swap trailers,then head back to your start point.