Ashley Furniture? Good company?

Not sure if it would have been any easier but it should would have been a lot less muddy and messy lol

That was my first choice and I initially just parked in the road when I got there. didn't have that option unfortunately. They had that beat up daycab and one of their trailers in the dock when I got there. They sent me in to wait at the bottom of the goat path until they were done doing whatever it was they were doing till they got the dock clear.

 

finally got a chance to sit down and crunch out the year end numbers.......

w/e 8-09 - 2900
w/e 8-16 - 3311
w/e 8-23 - 1604
w/e 8-30 - 2765
w/e 9-06 - 1986
w/e 9-13 - 3672
w/e 9-20 - 3048
w/e 9-27 - 3046
w/e 10-04- 2959
w/e 10-11 - 2524
w/e 10-18 - 2632
w/e 10-31 - 2355
w/e 11-01 - 3126
w/e 11-08 - 2608
w/e 11-15 - 2301
w/e 11-22 - 3272
w/e 11-29 - 3164
w/e 12-06 - 2708
w/e 12-13 - 3297
w/e 12-20 - 2627
w/e 12-27 - 1489
thru 12-31 - 2071

total miles start to year end - 59468 (22 weeks)
average miles per week - 2703
gross pay - 27,776.37
average gross per week - 1262.56

with all the accessory items such as d/h pay, live load/unload pay, safety bonus ect it equates to an overall rate of 0.4675 cents per mile. 0 .47 rounded up. that's a pretty good rate.

if I'd worked the whole year at those averages that's 65,653.12 gross for the year. not bad for going into my 4th year.

miles/avg suffered a little last few weeks of the year and that really brought the average down but still not bad for the year and I expect over the whole year that average will come back up to where it was mid-November when I did the last update.

I added about 15 items to the spreadsheet going into this year and i'll be tracking several more items to get a better breakdown on load type, pay type and cost per load/per mile/average length of haul ect, quite a few more items than I've been tracking. hopefully I've got it worked into a format that I can just post quarterly spreadsheet updates rather than having to type and transfer the data.

my numbers are pretty consistent with what oneshot is doing proportional to experience level, time with the company and our positions on the pay scale......so that's pretty encouraging for someone looking at the company that their numbers will be pretty close from location to location.......and for a 42 month not-so-noob anymore lol.....those are good numbers.

looking at it over the year, it makes the daily pain of dealing with the cube farm look like nothing more than a minor annoyance.

 

just a question i'll put out here to those looking at the company and to anyone researching companies in general who care to answer.

do you feel gross or net pay numbers are more important to see posted when using pay as a factor in deciding on choosing a company?

my personal feeling is that due to the large variables in what ends up being a person's net pay, such as dependents, type and level of insurance coverage ect ect all the things that are personal choices in payroll and have a large effect on your actual take home, is that posting gross pay numbers are much more beneficial in determining whether a company's pay package will be suitable for your needs.

as an example, my net pay as a married man with a family to insure is lower than what the net pay of a single man with no dependents would be. to post my net pay numbers would be misleading in regard to what a single man claiming zero would net, in my opinion. therefore, posting gross numbers is a more accurate reflection of what your numbers with the company would be. anyone who doesn't have some idea of their deductions would be relative to gross probably has bigger issues than what the pay scale is lol

just a thought as some of us do post our numbers yearly for those looking at the company. I was somewhat, but mildly, taken to task in a pm after my last post by someone claiming that gross numbers didn't matter only net. I see it the other way around. just interested in what the feelings of the group are on the subject.

and as a follow up question in relation to the same pm, how many of you think 60k NET is doable anywhere within your first 5 years for the 'average' driver?

I had my answer to it just interested in how the rest of you would address the comment that a noob was looking for 60k net, if made to you?

 

I would definitely want to see GROSS pay when researching a company. There are way too many variables involving taxes, 401(k) deductions, and insurance costs. For example, I put 15% in my 401(k) and obviously that hurts my net pay. I would, however, inquire about insurance coverage/cost upon investigating a company. The difference in coverage costs could realistically be 7 or 8 grand a year (or more), that's a lot of scratch.

60k/year net would most likely be roughly 90k/year gross. 90k jobs are out there, but they are rare and generally most of those go to experienced LTL/UPS/Grocery guys with a ton of seniority. In my area I would say it would be difficult to NET 60k/year as a person with 5 years or less experience.

 

Well I tried getting on with ya,ll but they turned down my app. because I worked at a company for 3 years and accidentally put same start year and end year on app. I've been driving 25 years perfect record one wrong punch of key and your screwed. I called them they said sorry once denied it's hard for them to override the electronic app.

 

Wow sorry to hear that bulls. I sent in an app online and received an email about a week later to fill out some signature forms and email/fax them back. I just emailed them earlier today along with a copy of my CDL, we'll see how it goes for me.

 

yeah that really sucks man. given the antiquated nature of the computer systems that actually has some believability. did they tell you when you could reapply?

it fits with the corporate culture though. some things they're real sticklers on and some things just slip through the cracks.

sure wish they'd hold the cube farm to that level of accountability for their screw-ups.

you're at the start of a long process lol took 6 weeks for me from application to orientation. if they emailed the release forms then they're interested. after they get that back if it all checks out they'll do a phone interview, then if you're close to a DC you'll have to to do a face to face ( not sure how the remote sites do it oneshot can weigh in on that) and a road test/physical and if you make it through that then you'll be invited for orientation. the plus side is that if you get invited to orientation you're pretty much in as they've already done all the checks before getting to that point. no surprises at orientation unless you just really screwup while you're there lol

good luck

 

is this a standard trucking interview? lol or should I be prepared to know everything about ashley ? thanks again for the info

 

you'll be fine. Nothing out of the ordinary they're just thorough.

 

Good luck sam1. I actually got a call this morning for a really sweet local job.