Family Dollar Dedicated

You have to live in lowell ar. Everything else is "outside help" including drivers.

 

I did Family Dollar out of Rome, NY for a short time before transfering to a DCS account.
.44 to start
.45 after 3 months
.46 after 1st year
.47 after 2nd year
and .48 cap after 3rd year
$100 per trailer unload (didn't matter if was a pup, 46', 48' or a 53')
if you have doubles endorsement you can do 2 pups a in day
each stop was $22
basically I averaged 1,600 to 2,100 miles per week on 3 to 4 unloads and most trailers have 2 to 4 stops and a 50% of the time a backhaul

I would say if your considering this account the money and hometime are above average but your driving and backing skills better be above average b/c average skill level doesn't cut it there.

JB Hunt has the cleanest most organized shops in the business, as far as people in those shops well lets just say my experience has only been less than favorable.

 

Spoken like a true Swift recruiter.

 

look at their website it will be there

 

I dont know where this guy gets his info, none of what he said is true. if anyone reads this guys BS should ignore it. talk to actual people that know what they are talking about. 500 per week for intermodal is totally false unless you dont work.I am on Dcs and make way more than 500 a week, I have been on DCS for 11 years and never brought home a check that low unless I took time off.

 

Word. My lowest NET pay since being with jbh/dcs was 600-something due to short week (holiday). Heck, I got 3000 miles this past week even with it being 4th of July.

Sun-Tues was a 1700 mile load
Wed-Fri was a 1350 mile load + a backhaul.

And I ran 550 today so I could get my reset in over in OKC and be fresh to roll on Monday morning. 1310 mile load, unload 5 drops between here and Dallas on monday, grab a backhaul, and should be back to terminal Tuesday and roll the next load right back out again.

And this is our slow time.

 

I'm transferring to Family Dollar DCS out of Odessa, TX soon, tho. Will be able to run to Reno to see dad/bro and Denver to see the kids, so am pretty stoked for that. Should be more money every week as well.

 

I ran Family Dollar out of Odessa from day one. As company and O/O lease, you NEED backing skills....SERIOUS backing skills, lost a driver a week just about for the first year alone because of this, we had a guy who drove yard truck at the rail head in jersey and he said it was enough to make you quit some days.
Evanston, WY in the winter-pull in over the snow bank, damage bumper, spin wheels on large ice patch, slide to a stop before hitting awning (bumper poles are just a suggestion, later painted red, easier to hit that way), open roll up, have cargo fall out if its your first stop, pry frozen burst bottles of bleach from walls (no you know bleach freezes), creatively hook up rollers to back of trailer (bungees and empty bins and totes are crucial for this stunt), "roll" product down rollers to "happy, shiny workers". No...really...that is what goes on, did it for 4+ years.
Hard physically and sometimes mentally stressful (severe weather woo hoo). Trailer would get over 135'f in Texas/NM/Arizona and -50'f in WY and Montana (Worland, WY was -63'f one winter, truck had trouble keeping itself warm, loved it). I was gonna include pics but I can only find the pic of my frozen face at powder horn pass in WY.
You also learn where every overgrown goat path is and how to take any short cut. F/M didn't care what route we used as long as we were safe, had no incidents OR accidents, and didn't due too much damage to the truck. At one point our trucks were getting 3 axle alignments every 90 days. We had to drive across ditches in some places (Leadville, CO, Evanston, Wy) thru "mud bog" empty lots next to the store (Amarillo, TX), blown down trees from storms (Phar,TX and Harlingen,TX) and avoid hitting loose cattle (Roosevelt, UT). T shirt weather in Gunnison, CO...chain up to get over the pass to Montrose, CO.... drive thru a thunderstorm/hail storm to get to Delta, CO.
All in all....totally worth it. You will lose weight, you will lose hair, you will see some awesome goat paths. Can you throw chains? Good you'll sometimes have to do it to get moving, did you drive the oil fields, good you'll need the patience and lack of sanity, you drive rail in chicago....come play with us.

 

I run it out of front royal va like it a lot the backing is hard the unloading is hard and we run into the inner cities and the mountains of west va every day you will have a challenge every day that's a reason I like it don't get bored it pays high you get a lot of home time but this is no job for a newbie you have to be confident backing in confined spaces be able to navigate downtown inner city areas and handle steep mountain passes to do this job and be in good enough shape to unload the truck .