Day Cab Trucking

I am getting ready to go to work now, but I drive 53 footer, day cab, and deliver in downtown Boston, "southie" neighborhood in fact. VERY TIGHT NARROW BOSTON STREETS, not too far from the Boston Convention Center by the way. Try being there when some show is going on! Then I do China town some nights. Try climbing on top of the traffic island when they shut down my street! Boston city cops watch me narrowly missing the pole at one corner (right rear) and the red light pole to my left front, then I have to "ride" that traffic island a few feet, then get off.

manual labor? Every night. Length of run? about 9 hours some nights, some nights under 8, some nights under 5, depending on what gets sent out.

Wanna do southie with me some night? It'll scare the hair off your.......


running late, I gotta sign off, g'nite!

 

The last two outfits had zero to minimal labor.. one was hauling silica sand to glass plants in bottom drop (gravity) pneumatic trailers. 12 - 13 hour days, shift work, The last one was hauling cryogenics.. easy but pretty boring.

 

8-16 hour days, pulling 53' dry van originating in the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre area. I prefer NYC Metro deliveries, and typically stay within a 300 mile radius. Tomorrow is a drop and hook from Taylor, PA to Brentwood, NY and back. Manual labor is rare, but there if we want it bad enough. Weekend work is available if we want it. Can also run containers from the warehouse to the rail yard and back, but it's not mandatory either. Primarily days, but might get flipped over to nights on occasion. I try to avoid that.

 

I hauled wood chips for a few years in a day cab for a very small company, maybe ten trucks that were always breaking down. It sucked! Pay was $1.05 per ton. Sometimes we over loaded to get an extra few bucks, (which was a very stupid thing to do) because either the hopper at the mill would go down, or something would go down at the paper mill and we'd sit for hours to get the loads on or off. These were 53' trl, loaded front to back, side to side, top to bottom, packed. Very top heavy even at legal weight and dangerous if you're not careful on those winding backwood hills, then backing up a ramp with your dog legged trailer and 3 to 4 inches to play between your tires and the edge of the ramp. I worked 7 days a week, 10 to 14 hrs a day and would be lucky if I got a $400 paycheck. It was actually pretty easy work, unless you buried your tarp after loading and had to hop up there and dig it out in the rain. I did that once! I'm sure there are much better day cab jobs out there than that crap...

 

I work anywhere between 9-14 hrs, Average about 60 a week, I'm on the clock OT after 8.
I run local but still run out to Wi. In. Ia. and Mi.
Some/most days I dont touch anything, Then I have days where I do everything which is not all that bad either.
I do have to unload some nasty stuff from time to time but it
Seems the more dangerous the product I haul the less likely I have to touch it, You just got to get it there LOL.
And I really like working for my current co. and the money is outstanding

 

I run day cab right now for a beer distributor and have an interview running day cab for a major broad line food service distributor. My days right now at the beer distributor are about 8 hours long. Food can be 8-10 hours long it depends what food distributor you work for. Side loader beer truck which is what I do and broad line food service is very physical there may be a couple dock stops, but there is plenty of two wheel hand truck. If you are in side loader beer truck it is nothing, but two wheel hand truck. Also you may run 15-25 stops a day in a side loader. Also you may have 3-4 stops that are all on the same corner driver the truck across the street wheel in a couple wheeler loads, drive the truck next door wheel in a couple wheeler loads and repeat. All in all I think some days I do about 4 miles of driving in an 8 hour shift.

 

Fuel hauler do all loading and unloading, 10-12hrs a day.200miles avg payed by the hour with OT after 10/40, and work 4 on 3 off best job I've had trucking no more OTR FOR me.

 

I spent 18 years doing LTL with a 2 axle daycab. I'm not sure how anyone else feels about them, and maybe it's just because I've been driving them so long, but I prefer a 2 axle over a 3 axle any day, under normal circumstances. I left the world of LTL last year, and now I'm driving for a private fleet, hospital supplies.

 

200 mile radius on a 2013 KW daycab runnin the port of Oakland by the hour. 14 hr days weekends and holydays off no more OTR for me.