Anybody driving milk tankers for RUAN out of Ripon, CA?

Just got a call back from them for a bread delivery position but I expressed my interest in hauling milk out of ripon. Do keep us updated on how it goes. What local is that, modesto or Stockton ?

 

Hi Jet460, have been wondering how it's going for you? My husband has also been hired for the local delivery job he applied for and starts in a few weeks. Hope all is going well & the job is all you hoped it would be. My husband will be happy to give up the truck stop life too!

 

I was a lease op at W/S and retired from there. Loved them. Had one bad experience all the time I was leased to them. Well, 2 if you count getting laid over in LA for 4 days.

 

Only the hooves & innards are used for the very finest of the truck stop corn dogs! LOL So sad to have to give up that fine cuisine! Did you only get 1 day of training before starting your own route. That's brutal if you have that much new paperwork to learn. Course you OR drivers only had to remember to log your prechecks, 30 min. break, at least 15 min @ receiver (the only problem my husband ever had which I could never figure out why when he sometimes had to wait for 6 hours @ the receiver) . And of course the all important trip logs! Let us know when it you begin enjoying being home every day; we'll keep you posted as well. Keep all 4 on the ground ...

 

Hey is that milk gig hourly? I talked to the recruiter yesterday and he said it is hourly and union. What local did you join?

also where did they have you driving to ?

 

Y'all talk about hauling milk and unions, I have been hauling milk going on 9 years, here in the mid-Atlantic region of the country and I have yet to run into a "union driver" in this business. Maybe it is completely different in other parts of the country, but we cover from NY state to Florida, as far west as Murray, KY and I haven't yet met a union driver pulling a milk tanker.

I usually do not go to the farms, most of my loads are pre-loaded and are sitting on the yard, waiting on me. But the few times and the few farms that I have been to, most of them are pretty decent. I have never seen "dead cows" lying around. The smell isn't too great, but it is not unbearable.

Most of the milk haulers are paid by the trips, a few are paid by the mile. As far as detention goes, maybe after 2 or 3 hours and then it is very little per hour. $50,000 per year is a good annual figure in this business. Most of the people are the nicest in the trucking industry. You are not going to become wealthy hauling milk, you will work on the average 6 or maybe 7 days per week, including holidays. It is a different world, but in my case, it suits me better than anything that I have done since I "retired" several years ago.

 

Hey jet is that an hourly gig? Or is it activity-based pay? Let me know how you like it so far. I'm considering pursuing this one.