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They have been good to me, glad to see youre enjoying it as well. I dont like the per diem plan, see more money now per say but still can make more money without it in the end. They're not actually paying you $59 a day, they're just keeping that amount from being taxed at the end of the week. Or so that is how I have come to understand it.

 

Sounds great. Do you have a phone number ?

 

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Amen, I worked there years back. Great Terminals, good trucks, I didnt like the fact that they only run out west was for Teams. I liked it and the customers they have in NYC and surrounding Burroughs was fairly simple. Plus they pay extra per drop and I always made it home when I wanted. No complaints.

 

That's not how per diem works. You do not get 60$ a day, you don't get anything. What you get is a slightly lower tax withholding on the money you make, because they pay you .2 cents a mile less then whatever you were getting and then you get per diem on a per mile basis, so if you have a light day and don't drive much you don't accrue much per diem. All it actually does it take some of the money you were already making per mile, and call it per diem so you get a barely noticeable increase in the amount you net on your paycheck, because those two cents are then reclassified as per diem and not pay, they're not taxed.

The smart thing to do is say no, file at the end of the yr on your taxes. You can get transportation industry 80% of the standard national conus rate of per diem, @ 80% that's 48.50, and then you get all your per diem regardless of how many miles you drove.

Basically, they push the per diem thing on people like they're helping you and they're not, actually they get tax advantage for that deal not you

 

With 5 days out we were told you get 2 off and with 6 days out its 1.5

Misinformation?

 

What division are you thinking about, teams, regional or what? I knew a lot of teams when I worked there on dedicated accounts that got home every friday and either left sunday night or monday morning. Very possible. I was solo dedicated and was home every friday and left out monday morning unless I wanted to work in some extra miles.

 

My husband is looking at regional

When and why did you leave? What medical benefits are offered?

 

I left because the miles on the dedicated account was on started to drop and I thought the grass was greener on the other side. I never took the benefits but from what I heard they were why a lot of guys stayed. Where about are y'all from? I'm not sure about regionally much. They might pop in the leave on sunday kind of thing.