Signing on with Interstate - Have Questions

Here comes the "Location" brigade!

 

I'm a solo driver with Interstate and get home weekly, for the most part. It may only be a "fly by", but I do get to sleep in my own bed, do a load of wash, change out the litter boxes, get my mail, and food shop for the truck. Some weekends, I'll get my restart in. The weeks vary: I've had weeks where I ran over 3,000 miles, the past three weeks were good, nice take home paychecks. This week, check will be in the toilet. And we just went to Elogs, so I do expect that checks will get worse, unless planners can start giving me decent runs and not those "daffy duck" days where you're doing short hops from York to Carlisle, drop and hook, and do that three times in a day. No money in that, we don't get paid drop and hook pay, hourly pay is only $13.00 an hour. So, like any company, you will have good weeks, and bad. I'm sitting in Atlanta today, got two lousy loads, back to back, from planner, but to be fair, they are just trying to get me back home to NC. But this "preloaded" trailer isn't even started yet, some problem with the product, and it won't be loaded until sometime THIS WEEK. Planner has nothing for me yet...so here I sit. Days like today have me looking on Craig's list for local work, lol!

 

Well he did say western 11. That should be good enough. Except for all the one's that want to say, "Son don't bother with that, go find you one of them there local jobs where you drive 20 miles a day and get paid for 10 hours and are off nights, weekends and every other monday. You'll make 80k a year."

 

Any one knows how the northwest interstate is up in Tacoma,or how they'll pay you just for two yrs on road is it .32 or .35 per mile, gal call me sometime ago,just fixed my CDL good to go. I got my be 2-3 yrs left in me Lord willing, just waiting to know if it's a good fit for me I drove OTR.Take Care be safe...

 

Depending on where you live, Interstate gets you home often. Anywhere on I-5 will get you by the house twice a week on average. Not always for long, but it was much easier on paper logs. Now you have to shut it down even if you're only 50 miles out. Welcome to the future...