Year up in 5 months is Conway in Ohio a good choice?

cudafish71 · Feb 12, 2012

I am not unemployed, just have four and a half months to Go with Pam and am looking for a good place. I have it narrowed now (minus Conway) to two companies. Thanks!!!

cudafish71 · Feb 12, 2012

I have some more research to do, but I think I have it narrowed to two companies. Not naming them, but will when I find out anything seriously wrong with them. Thanks to the fellow who posted his Conway history, that helped a lot.

Roadwarriorking · Apr 20, 2012

mchid81 said: ↑

If you want to be home every night/day your looking for Conway Freight. You have a choice of City P&D or night Linehaul running doubles. You will need Hazmat and Double/Triple endorsements to work at Freight.

The Columbus terminal has around 145 drivers with bids based on seniority. New drivers will start on a flex board for either day(city) or night(linehaul) depending on what you bid when you start. The city flex drivers are on call and will fill in for call offs or extra volume/routes etc. and if freight is slow they will be called in to work the dock. Night flex drivers have a set start time but if freight is slow they will just work the dock. It takes about 6 months to a year to get a bid with a set start time.

City drivers are paid hourly and work about 10 hours a day with a couple of those hours working the dock on a forklift. They start as early as 5am and all they way up to 10:30am.

Linehaul drivers work around 12-14 hours a night getting paid mileage for driving and hourly for hooking sets and dock time. They start between 6pm and 8pm and can finish as late as 10am the next day. Linehaul runs average between 200 to 450 miles a night. The less you drive the more dock time you will get. Linehaul drivers make about 20k more per year but also work around 70 hours a week.

I've been here around a year now and its been a great company to work for. It all depends on the size of your terminal with bids and seniority. I've heard it takes a long time at the smaller ones to get a good linehaul bid or city start time.

Any other questions just ask and I will try and help.
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Hi,.i am from miami Fl.. there is a CW terminal close from where i live, ( Miami gardens ) after seeing good reviews about the company .i was willing to start with con way freight,..so, my cousin decided to go with me to Con Way to drive as a team...But now he decided not to team with me , he got a new job....

so now i will be driving solo...

should i go solo OTR with conway...or...go directly to con way freight..?....im just looking wich one i can get paid better...

i dont mind to be in the road 3, 6 or 8 week OTR...

BUT.. If i go OTR and then decide to go freight...i know i will be starting from the bottom and i will waste that time on OTR.i know it is all about senority.

so..what u recomend me ..?.. Do u know something or any info about con way freight from Miami ..?..

thanks man ,

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