Need Advise Here....I Am A Trucker's Wife

Welcome to the forum reelside1025.To be honest with you,unlikely your husband will be making$600.00 plus a week every week.Trucking is an up and down business.One day he could get the miles and the next day nothing.Either because hes waiting for a load or waiting to be unloade or loaded or have a road brk down.Unless he had a salary job his pay will vary from week to week.There will be weeks his pay may onlly be$300.00.Then with all the laws many drivers have called it quits because they were'nt making anything.Is windyhill a large carrier?If so then plan on not meeting your ecspectations.I think the only way you 2 can keep afloat because the economy is so bad is that you both work.

 

Windy Hill may hire him. The company recruits from CDL schools. It's a live plant hauler, but sometimes haul general freight if need be.
Benny Whitehead Trucking in Eufaula, AL might be worth an application. Lots of miles running teams doing a lot of Florida/West Coast turns.

Paschall Truck Lines would probably hire him without the refresher also, but it's unlikely he will make the $650.00 weekly in the beginning.

Your husband should work on getting the endorsements such as tanker/hazmat, plus TWIC & a passport in order to get into the $60K + annual paying jobs.

 

Man, do I remember working outdoors in the cold and the heat! I started out as a roofer when I was 17 working in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Can you say HOT?

It's funny how things have shaken out in our lives after feeling so desperate four years ago. We have no debt, thousands of dollars in the bank that we have saved on an income that at face value is "less" than what I used to make, at least what I thought I was making. My house payment is $1,564 a month with taxes & insurance, yet I haven't been late on one payment in over three years when things started to stabilize. We have health insurance, benefits, 401K, etc. I have a boss that really cares, provides me with a beautiful truck, great miles and home time, etc, etc, etc.

 

Windy Hill Foliage is just down the road from Roehl Transport's main office in Marshfield, WI. Windy Hill is a small company. 145 trucks. If you look at their CSA score they have a horrible score in Hours-of-Service category. This category controls the operation of CMVs by drivers who are ill, fatigued, or in non-compliance with the Hours-of-Service (HOS) regulations. Their score is 79.2. Please due your husband a favor and steer him away from this company. With this type of score they are expecting their drivers to drive tired, over their legal hours, and not keeping their logs up to date. Take a look at their CSA score card at http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/sms/. USDOT number 201875.
Roehl does have a small fleet out of the Jacksonville area if you are wanting a carrier that runs between WI and FL. Good luck.

 

I don't have any endorsements and at first worked on a salary 1g a week but decided not to be a slave and went otr I get .38 and 5-6.5k miles

 

You have to find a small family owned company that you can talk to the main guys if you want not all the little guys who sit in the office and tell you whatever you want to hear

 

So you do around 800-900 miles per day, solo?

 

Well wont comment on that buy I leave Thursday and come back next Sunday or Monday and bring home around 2400-2500 and I'm not complaining its just how hard is someone willing to work in my opinion And I'm 23 been around trucks since 18

 

LOL. Okay, here we go again. You're saying you drive between 5 & 6 thousand miles in how many days?

$2,400 divided by .38 a miles would be 6,315 miles. You're trying to say you drive over 6,000 miles a week solo?

 

No drop and pick up $25 dollars I haul reefer so get few pick ups sometimes even 5