YRC Freight Pay or Info?

Big-G Express is also good, but personally would choose A&R Logistics as first choice. Dry bulk trucking is easy money.

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My former neighbor was making over $1300.00 weekly, but he's a real hustler and hard worker. His w-2 showed $72K.
He said the avg. pay there runs about $62K.
Hardly see a post on here from drivers; it's a relatively small company; not even medium sized.

 

Well, right now LTL's are kinda slow. Lots of reasons for this: slow time of year, oil prices, freight down across the board, etc. That being said, the average driver age at YRC is like 55+ years old which means that over time you'll move up the seniority board. But starting out on the bottom might be a little rough right now. As we get into the spring and summertime, freight tends to pickup and guys start taking vacation time.

I guess it all depends on your time horizons. If you can stick it out for a year or so, you'll have men above you retiring and you'll have guys coming in under you to replace them, which will move you up the seniority board

The question with starting out at LTL's is always: can you put up being on the bottom of the totem pole for awhile until you catch a bid? You'll work and make $$$, but it might mean erratic paychecks, being on call, no set schedule, etc. Of course, every terminal is different so you might want to stop in and talk to the TM, talk to some local drivers running out of that barn, etc.

If I were a young guy, I would do it because the future rewards outweigh the risks. You just can't beat an LTL job for the money you make and home every night/day and off every weekend. And if it doesn't work out, Knight will re-hire you provided you don't burn any bridges. Plus you're in a major freight area so you can always jump ship to another LTL like OD, UPS Freight, FedEx Freight, SAIA, R&L, Southeastern, etc or other local outfits.

To put this in perspective, my buddy is about to retire from UPS Freight after 30 years there. He's top guy on the seniority board pulling triples across the pike. He makes $110,000/year just dropping and hooking boxes across the pike, home everyday, off every weekend, with a UPS pension, to boot. And 35 years ago he was just like you, starting out at Overnite Transportation on the bottom of the board. So the opportunities are there but they come with time.

 

its hard to give you a number, every terminal is different depending on management, contract and freight volume. your best bet is to ask someone working out of that terminal and ask how much overtime is available for the guys that want it.

your pay to start would be about 17.6 to start, 18 when you get your letter of hire, 19 at 1 yr from there,20.50 at 2 yrs roughly and then 3rd yr is full rate whatever that is when you get there (maybe as much as 22$ when we get our pay bump)

 

I started a little over a year ago at $17.88. You get a 5% raise for the first three years until you're at full rate (85% is the starting date). Now at $18.77. However, your starting CPM is approximately .45 and then 5% a year bump until at full rate after three years. This is for Line Haul which is 98% terminal to terminal. Contracts at various termals can be different, so perhaps checking with a driver from the Nashville terminal would be optimal.

 

If you break down on the road,you call dispatch, tell them where you are and what's wrong and you go on hourly until you're fixed.

 

If something is wrong at Dispatch and you have to go to the garage, you ouch your dispatch and you are paid the hourly rate for ,time spent, in the garage.

 

They're always hiring in southern CA. Their equipment is some of the oldest I see on the road. It always looks to be in rush shape as well

 

theyre hiring year round out of the detroit terminal as well, but i would say the equipment has improved over the last couple years and i would say its pretty average in comparison to the other LTL companies, better than some, worse than others. we have new trucks,old trucks etc etc. city trucks are mostly going to be over 1 million miles but overall theyre in better shape than 2 yrs ago.