New to ltl

I started being a wild bag driver, meaning having to stay out 3-4 days out of a 5 day work week. Rookie linehaul drivers usually start as wild or extraboard drivers, depending on the company terminal. It's fairly common for a linehaul driver to be home everyday and only work 5 days a week, no matter the LTL company. But yes, I'm currently running daylight linehaul, home every night, working 5 days a week. Keep in mind that it's not uncommon in LTL to work 12-14 hour days, P&D or linehaul. For linehaul, it would obviously depend on the runs you're taking. Some scheduled runs out of my terminal are only 8-9 hour days for l/h drivers. Others work up to about their 14 running over 650 miles a day, but those are the guys that are pulling down six figures.

Currently, I believe starting pay for OD drivers are .57 cpm for north east miles, maybe .55 cpm for all other miles. We top out somewhere in the low .60's cpm after about two years. Then again, company raises happen almost annually, so these figures can change for the better.

 

Very good advice. Linehaul is pretty easy compared to food service. Some LTL companies make linehaul drivers work the dock. We don't do that at OD. Just drop and hooks, all day long. Easy.

 

Did LH,dont like sitting I found out,like the physical stuff for now.

 

Stuck behind a slow moving Sysco TT the other day on a back road for about 8 miles.
The brother trucker wouldn't / couldn't do the speed limit.
Frustrated at first, no one behind me and pulls out,It was slow going.

Mile or 2 following him. Couldn't get mad cutting me off, Knew this fella had a 10x harder day then I and just drifted way back. Sometimes just have to put yourself in other drivers shoes.

No flipping thanks. Those Food/ Beverage folks are not sane

 

3 day work week for now,then 4 days a week......of course theyre 16 hrs long,lol.

 

^THIS and more often than not fingerprint it 2,3,4 times over from digging, organizing, stopping truck at next stop open door and see it all over the place again and again! How they route and how they load the truck will determine just what kind of day you have, SUCKS!

 

Thats what I like about my route, bumping docks all day, not too many hard backs and I only need to use my palletjack a handful of times a day. I usually do a bunch of the same stops daily too. So easy

 

I think 4 day work weeks are becoming the standard in the foodservice industry, not because the company is looking out for their drivers, but I think there have been studies done on proper rest and recovery, and it probably helps their bottom line on workers comp claims. I see too many us foods, Sysco, dairy, and produce companies running a 4 day work week anymore for it to be a coincidence. with as big of pricks as Sysco and us foods are, they wouldn't do it if it didn't help out their wallet!

 

well the 4 day week is nice,esp with the day FS workers put in.You can also bid on 3 day weeks to.its nice to have the time off and have a life and recover a little.