A Few Questions about Cassens (Chicago Area)

Your city runs will be closer to under 50 miles. You also get paid a set rate per load while loading.

It's not hard for a city driver to easily make $300 per day and be home every day/night.

 

you didnt factor in multi drop dealers. You could get anywhere between 1 and 9 drops....
just saying.

 

Can a city driver make 450$ a day either home everyday or not

 

FYI,
3 hours to load, and 2 hours to unload at a dealer are ridiculously high estimates.

If you are on a dealers property unloading for more than 45 min to an hour on a full load drop (including BOL's signed), something is wrong.

Also, you will not be running a 9 way split. On a local or shortline board, probably 3 drops max. running new vehicles.

 

We don't see much of that. If we do it's Chevrolet out of Hamtramck.

There are drivers that do one city run then a long run in the same day. So yes over $450 is possible but, being on the bottom of the board makes a big difference in your pay. You can make great money but you'll work harder then the senior drivers.

In union car hauling it's not whose above you that counts it's whose below you.

 

Well said and 100% correct

 

I started hauling cars as soon as I got my CDL. I worked for a small company with 2 6-car trailers. My runs were all out of a rail yard in Chicago Heights. I did 2 runs a day. One long run (Indianapolis or Grand Rapids) and one short run (O'Hare or local dealerships). I talked to a few other drivers that were based out of that yard. I forget the name of them back then but they were bought out by Waggoners. The drivers for Waggoners said dispatch didn't really care about your schedule as long as the truck makes money. Basically, you were required to work until the truck makes money. As long as the truck made at least $$$ every week, teh rest was up to the driver. Some barely made the minimum. Some drivers worked their ##### off and made a ton of $$$. Those drivers typically got the better runs.

I don't think Waggoners runs that lot any more. I think it's run by Cassens now.

When I was running there I really enjoyed it. However, it was really hard on my knees climbing up and down the trailer.

 

Last I knew Waggoners was still pulling a little freight out of Chicago heights. Haven't been there since URS bought them out.

Either way we sure as hell don't operate like Waggoners did.

Chicago heights is it's own small terminal but your generally dispatched there via Aurora.