leaning toward maverick

post your question over at the Maverick threads man. I am sure that Razor will jump at the chance to discuss it with you. He just left Schneider for Maverick Glass division and has been doing well his first month or so. I do believe that there is a Dedicated Glass gig out of Witchita Falls, TX too. http://www.maverickusa.com/driving-jobs/dedicated-opportunities

 

From my experiences in my first month Maverick is the better choice.

I pulled a dry van for Schneider for 14 months. They were a good place to get my experience but they have changed. They are getting to picky about micro managing the drivers.

I can't tell you how it's going to be at the dedicated accounts but the OTR glass division had been good so far.

Glass pays more per mile than flatbed but we get slightly less miles. I can load, secure, and tarp a double drop trailer in about 2-3 hours now. A flatbed or step deck with all A-frames takes me 3-5 hours.

We get paid for tarping as well as any time I touch the A-frames.

So far I'm averaging about 2000 miles a week. I came in with over a year of experience so I started at 49CPM.

So far I've had 2 paychecks from driving. The first was 800 gross with about 500 net. The second one was 1150 gross and 950 net.

The pay at maverick is much higher than Schneider. The average first year income in the glass division is somewhere around 50-52k from what I've been told.

I can't say much about home time yet as I've only had one so far and I volunteered to mess it up to help the company since I had no plans anyways.

 

Most of the "smack" posted about Maverick comes from candidates or drivers that bombed out for one reason or another.

 

You'll be happy here...

 

Razororange~ What is the heaviest load of glass that you have carried so far?

 

In order since I started with trailer type used to haul it and what it was

45237lbs - flatbed - assorted wooden crates

47107lbs - flatbed - 11 96x130 stoces

44894lbs - dgl - 11 96x130 stoces

42291lbs - stepdeck - 3 96x130 stoces, 2 large racks, 4 small racks

43208lbs - dgl - 11 96x130 stoces

41341lbs - dgl - 4 130x204 stoces, 2 96x130 stoces

 

Thanks for the info. I appreciate all your posts.