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.

 

I think USPS just told everyone, "We're getting rid of our contractor-carriers by late 2025" just so they could oust 10 Roads Express...then once 10 Roads folded USPS decides all of a sudden, "Oh, just kidding, we're going to keep contractor-carriers."

I was at 10 Roads in Denver, I declined in-company Health & Wellness and paid for my own Healthshare (MPB Health/Zion $250/month single guy). My route was "11.5hrs" but I got it done in 10hrs...so it felt like $40/hr. I think it was actually $28.50/hr with $5.25/hr H&W pay up to 80hrs every two weeks and $5/hr more Friday-Sunday. Then there was an extra $50 a day for I-70 Mountains...shoot some drivers had 5 day weeks with all 3 weekend days AND mountain pay for like $100k-110/yr. Oh, but wait...:

Even if your potential company won't pack up shop they still might lose routes often when USPS rescinds those routes and gives them to a lower bidder...that's what happened to me at 10R...3 times it happened in less than a year.