1 year in, ready for a change. What are your suggestions?

Lol man thats so true, couldn't have been said any better

 

I'm at a year with Swift, about a year and a half total, thinking the same thing, and having the same doubts. My experience with Swift has been decent and I like dry vans. My issues are no big deal; they are the same issues in every company, and DM's have been good. With a clean record, quarterly bonuses make the pay less of an issue. I'm also considering being a trainer when I feel I've got enough experience. I don't like job hopping, but there are companies that pay 2-4 cents more with comparable benefits and some have out 6 days home 1-2. I did Walmart dedicated (all reefer) for a few weeks to help out during the holidays, and even though I got home home most nights, the money was terrible and I did way too much work for free. I was relieved to get back on the road. I'm on the fence.

 

Wow, I just left swift in nov. I actually ended up running on the walmart acct. Outta winterhaven for about 6 or 7 mths. But then it got old an I just got tired of swift all the way threw. I stayed with swift about a year and a half, but now I'm going owner op with sunco carriers probably running the southeast that local crap got boring real quick

 

There's a local job, home every day paying $52K per year with Cardinal Logistics.
The website is driveforcardinal then click on "view current openings". When the map shows, click on Washington.

 

UH....NO.....I don't know where you get your info , but you are way , way off base. Granted some local jobs are labor intensive....fast food , beverage companies ( Coke /Pepsi/Beer companies) , but most of them average way over the 500 t0 600 dollar a week mark. LTL drivers lots of them non-union make up-wards of 1,000 a week , some even more. I worked for a fast food company for over 30 years and when I retired in 2011 , I was making well over 70,000 a year , running 3 routes a week...now if you do the math that comes out to......1,346.15 a week , if you count in the fact that after my seniority kicked in....I had 5 weeks of vacation , 6 personal days , and earned 1/2 a day a month in sick pay that comes to another 6 days , if they weren't used by the end of the year.....lets see now , were are at......45 weeks of actual time spent working.....70,000 divided by 45 instead of 52 comes to.....1,555.55. Before you start slamming a particular segment of trucking , you need to know something about it....just saying....local vs OTR......................... lots of things to compare....

 

Spokane,are there any chip haulers up there?
I like my job,pay is not the greatest but I should make $50K this year and I'm home every night plus have weekends off.
Just a thought,lots of timber related jobs here in the PAC NW.

 

Check into the LTL companies in the Spokane area, such as YRC, Reddaway, etc. If you dont like 12 - 14 stops delivery, then another 10-12 pick ups using a 45,48,53,28 foot trailer and sigle screw tractor then dont try local LTL. Oh, yes with local LTL expect your days to be anywhere from 8 to 14 hours per day, usually 5 days a week. Now if you want the LTL gravy train, try line haul. Here you run mostly doubles, or tripples, and go terminal to terminal. Just a thought. Forgot, local LTL is home every night, line haul is usually home every day, although some runs may have you out overnight.

 

PHP:

Same ol story. I've heard this one too. I "used" to make this much doing that much....but I'm still otr.

No one is making $1000 per week. I guarentee it. You might hit that a couple times out of each year but not always. Oh, and somebody mentioned cardinal logistics on here. Well....lol..good luck with that. As a temp agency driver I drove for cardinal for a few months. Horrible. The pay IS there. I was at about $700 a week average. Their main account is autozone. About 90% of their business. 5-6 stores a night. Pulling a 53, with a sleeper cab, delivering inside shopping centers with no loading dock, using a lift gate and s run down beat up electric jack that looses its charge in the middle of your route. Trucks are old internationals with 500, 000k miles on em. Good luck!

 

How so...same ole story I mean...I did OTR for about 3 years , then my kids started comimg along...I chose to try and be home more to be with them and my wife and find local work , and was lucky enough to land a job driving for a great company ( Golden State Foods) for the next 33 years , retiring in 2011...believe what you want sir...got nothing to proove to anyone , just making an observation , and giving my experinces in the local/ food service area of the trucking industry , but with less than 10 years experience you've already decided you know more than someone whose spent their entire adult life in the industry......carry on pal.......

 

I'm gonna give you this one because I also know about Gsf. Good company. Again, NOT the norm in the industry. You scored a good job. Just like ups and coca cola. Very very very few good trucking companies out there.