.29 a mile or $21.00 a hour?

The Mega company won't trash your record if you give at least a 2 week notice. The local job sounds like a good one. be careful of what is offered you, sometimes the grass is not greener on the other side of the fence. Go talk to some of the drivers at the new job. Make sure what they offer is what they deliver.

 

Drivers were making .29 per/mi.in the 1970's you are getting bent with the mega carrier and they will do it as long as you allow it.

 

hello , anybody home?

duh....duh.....DUH !!!!!!!

jump on that hourly job immediately !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

well if you do the math at .29 a mile if you are driving 65 mph you are making 18.85 an hour. If you drive 10 hours a day you can make 188.50, a 10 hour day at 21.50 means 215.00 so you have the potential for the same day to make about 26.50 more, that translates into 132.50 a week.

The question is for the upped pay do you want to take a chance at ruining a good thing you may already have?

 

being on the road;

$0.29 a mile good thing ?........... sitting for hours for free getting loaded / unloaded / waiting for dispatch a good thing?........being treated like crap by shippers / recievers a good thing? overpriced truckstop food a good thing?.......sleeping in a truck that was previously occupied by what? a good thing?

local hourly job;

getting paid for everything you do a good thing !!!!........ sleeping in your own bed everynight a good thing!!!!...... 100% paid benifits a good thing !!!!......eating dinner at home everynight with a home cooked meal and the wife and kids a good thing !!!!!

 

What I mean by a good thing is a steady job. He is fairly new to trucking from what I gather with his post. I know some are having an issue finding jobs right now.

All I am sugjesting is if the other job doesnt work out is he going to wind up regretting it.

I know full and well that .29 a mile is beginner pay.

 

he said the job was offered by a neighbor that has been in buisness over 20 years i don't see haw he would regret leaving a scumbag mega carrier

if he runs 120,000 miles a year his pay for the year his pay will be just under $35,000

if he drives local for $21.00 an hour (told 50-60) and gets just 10 hours overtime each week thats $60,000 + a year ........plus he doesn't have to contribute several hundred dollars a month for bennies and will not have the expences of living on the road and remember if mama aint happy nobody's happy.....even with no time and a half 50 hours strait time he'll be over 50k