Quality Driveaway

I've seen 20 or more drivers wait all morning until a few accepted Canada loads . Then a dozen more loads were available . Of course their shuttle drivers said contractors could follow them to the plant and hook up there - and still pay the $40 spotting fee

 

When was this?

 

Just spoke with 3 drivers who pull for Jet Inc. They only run 1 ton pickup trucks but they haul exclusively for Jayco Trailers (jet inc is their delivery division) and they said they are making $1.00 a mile and go where they want.

Doesn't seem too bad seeing a brand new F350 can be gotten for $45k and you'd be making what a class 8 rig does that pulls for a mega carrier, plus you get better MPG's

 

They are getting $1 a mile to deliver . Fuel comes out of that including fuel to run back to IN at your expense without a load . Put over 80,000 miles a year on a new truck and you won't net half what the depreciation on the truck is .

 

I haven't pulled for them since 2005

 

I left them in 2009.

Pullout fees were only 25.00.

In 2004 they were 18.00.

 

I understand that, I was just saying that some places like Prime, Swift, Stevens and Trans Am pay their drivers $1 a mile, but a new rig is $140k and they get 1/2 the mpg's.

I parked my rig and ran FEMA trailers with my 1/2T Silverado back after Katrina. Goshen is only 60 miles from my house so it was good. I paid off my pickup and Harley in 3 months and only put 28k miles on my truck, but that was government pay.

 

After 200k miles, a pickup is basically worthless (maybe $12k if you're lucky, on a $50k investment), whereas a Class 8 truck with 200k is considered almost brand new.

 

If properly maintained many diesel pickups are good for well over 500,000 miles

 

Mine has over 658,000 on it.