What is your perfect trucking company?

I had all of those with a tanker company except the automatic and weekend one but I did have 1-2 days off a week. Had pete 379s with 13 speeds but I haven't ever driven a automatic so I don't know if I'd like it or not. Would run right across state line 2 hours 1 way twice a day. Made $1250 a week. Best job I've ever had. Then the news came they there were losing the contract because some dirt bag company wanted to haul it for next to nothing.

 

Y'all is dreamin.

 

The place that I retired from in 2011 after 33 years there had these.....

1. home daily

3. Off every week-end (after you gained enough seniority to bid week-ends off )

5. minimum 1,000 per week...

7. new trucks and trailers every 3 years

11. respectful dispatchers ( most of the ones at the DC I worked were former drivers waiting to retire)

12. paid holidays ...(as a bonus if you were scheduled to run on a paid holiday you got the holiday day which was what the trip paid without any breakdowns + half the trip pay + 8 hours. some of those days would pay almost triple regular pay)

13. paid detention..we were paid our hourly rate of pay for breakdowns as soon as the breakdown began , when detained at a stop or back-haul pick-up point we were paid after the 1st hour hour til we were loaded

15. E-logs loved them...they not only kept the drivers honest they kept the dispatchers honest too. We were forced into them though had a terrible audit and in order to keep operating the company was required to put them into the trucks. Started with the KADEC...then switched over to the XATA

16. automatic transmission...we were getting a couple as I was retiring never drove one myself...

I'll add to this list.... some drivers had a 2 trip a week schedule. They went out delivered the route took their break in a company furnished motel , then returned to the yard after the break was over. Once in a while these routes would have a back-haul , which you were paid an extra $60 + waiting time for. Did this twice a week. I did one from Greensboro NC to Charleston SC for over 10 years , til I could bid on a really good 3 day run...One that ran Mon. then a short run on Tuesday , off Wed. , then the same route as Mon. on Thursday...then off FRI. Sat. & Sun.
Now this was delivering fast food....so it was work...but as long as you worked like you had some sense it wasn't that bad. some folks think that finger-printing a load is not for them , but it sure was good to me. I'm 65 now with zero health issues , and in better shape than guys half my age.

 

I will tell you my perfect job:

Day linehaul bid pulling doubles with a single axle daycab turned up to 75mph. Running wild, always different terminals and sleeping in hotels, staying out from monday to friday, but always back by friday night to go home. Teamster payscale and benefits with pension.

Oh, yeah, and the day cab is an old Mack with straight pipes and satellite radio.

 

Why would you need a straight truck with a sleeper if you are home everyday or a rider policy. But don't let me mess up your wet dream.

 

Right now my perfect trucking company is going to be the one that hires me.

 

My dream company would be one that I make 1500 a week at, drivin a w900L or 389 with a 600 cat and 18 speed, home either everyday or home early Friday and out on monday that pays my benefits and has a smokin hot dispatcher that I'm sleeping with . Like the saying goes, I had a dream.

Adam

 

1st. Dispatchers are hot sexy ladies

2nd. 3500 a week o/o take home

3rd. California run one week out of the month.

4th. 2 days off at home every week.

5th... help here guys..