Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

Sorry but the summer air isn't available until June. Your going to have to look for some Spring air or winter air in the discount store

 

It will start to bother you when they stick you out there on P&D for 11, 12, 13 hrs and you realize you should have made an extra $40-50 that day. They're a good company to work for overall but needless to say I'm not a fan of how OD chooses to handle their overtime policy. When I hired on with them in Seattle they paid OT after 40 (due solely to state regulations requiring it) and IMO it was basically as good a job as any of the best union gigs because of it. Out here in NJ/NY they don't pay OT till after 60, which basically means you never see any, and this is the way it is in most of the country as far as I know. ABF is a stronger career job.

 

I forgot that California has OT after 40 as well. Still I hate P&D and would have to be going broke before I took a job doing it. I've been working mileage so long I don't even know what a decent hourly wage is? My wife makes $54 an hour as a nurse and my cousin makes $33 an hour working at Disneyland maintaining the rides. My wife usually get OT and DT every week my cousin gets his 40 and out. It seems to me that 22 or 24 bucks an hour is like minimum wage where I live unless getting OT everyday but then you're working so long you still don't have a life. Easier to just drive the truck and listen to my tunes.

Unless you live in the desert out here you need to be making 80k plus especially if you ever plan on buying a house! East coast and west cost are very expensive unless you live in the boonies. I looked at homes in the greater Nashville area and noticed I could get a 2000 sq ft home with 7.6 acres for less than I could get a 1700 sq ft home here with no land crammed in with all my neighbors! $249,000 vs $639,000!!!

 

$22-24/hr for straight time is a pretty strong wage for drivers actually. With OT after 8/40 it can be a pretty good living. Other industries pay better...nursing being one of them. You need a 4 year degree to be an RN though, and it's not a job I would want to do.

 

There is no way that I will ever believe that is a typo. I think you really did mean to say west COST. But what I don't understand, is why you didn't also say east COST. Is it because the west cost, costs more than the east cost, costs?

 

Yea NY in areas is very expensive. Where my mom lives is supposedly the most expensive county in the country. One of the main reason why I don't wanna buy a house there, although I miss my friends it's so much cheaper where I am now at my dads. My dad told me for his house, with a acre of land, and five bedroom it's about 2k a month to keep the house, that's all bills and taxes out together(house is paid off) gas and groceries are way cheaper here then where I used to live. Plus if I end up marrying this girl I'm seeing she will be a RN so with her money and what I'm making at work we would do good. Unless I get the DPW job or finally get the call to the FD them we'd be even better. and yes brandonpdx is right you need a 4 year degree now, according to the gf they are doing away with the 2 year.

as for ODFL my friend at work said he was there for 13 years. He said he was working 5 days in the city averaging 10-12 hours a day so no overtime, and would do Linehaul of the weekends. At the end of the week he took in 1000-1200, which is good money but you don't want to do that 6 days a week for that. He says he's making that now at UPSF doing 5 days a week.

As for city work I have thought about switching multiple times. As much as I like LH better I would like having a bit of a life again during the week, but once I switch I can't go back, and either way I lose seniority. But like I said I'm waiting on the town or FD so I'll stick it out for a while, plus I'm not leaving this place unless I get a pension at where ever I go to. I don't want to be like my parents working till I'm 103

 

East and west coast are both really expensive. I would say California and Manhattan being 2 of the worst. I heard northern Cali is the most expensive in the country. Why anyone would want to live there is beyond me? I went to San Francisco once and I'll never go back. My aunt lived in upstate NY by Copake falls and had a dirt cheap house by a river. It was beautiful up there but y'all can have that weather! My grandpa had a big spread down in the bayou in Louisiana. Had 80 acres and a shack on it lol! Sure was fun going off roading, fishing and hunting. Got hot as hell but I had a blast!

I guess what I should have said in that post was there are a lot cheaper places to live and you can still make 22 bucks an hour driving a big truck. I know some states don't enforce the OT but some states don't have a state income tax, have lower sales taxes, gas prices, etc. It goes a lot further in places with a lower cost of living and lower real estate prices. The cost of living index where I live is 144 on a scale of 0-100! Cheapest gas prices I can find is 3.99 a gal.

 

If you really want to work for the FD you should apply to work in California. We get some really good fires out here that take a few weeks to put out. You'd have all kinds of work! Get your pilots license and you can dump that red stuff on the fires. I bet those guys make bank!

 

In reality, It's still California,Assuming ACH is talking about NYFD. Would be a hard job to pass up. Everyone loves a hose dragger from NY.