Car hauling or Food service

I never made no $23 and hr slinging groceries and like you I been on both sides

 

Guess it's all what you want

 

At $23 an hour you would have to work 70 hours to make just short of $2,000 with OT. An experienced carhauler should make that in 50-60 hours at the right company where they are staying loaded. For many years I unloaded 5 trailers a week hauling snack foods which was difficult, but car hauling certainly is not easy. Both are good jobs in my opinion.

 

If it has a lift gate on the trailer you will be lumping all day.

 

Maybe I am slow but I pick up at a lot of Manheim cars 5-6 hours to pull and load 9 cars if all goes fairly smooth. About 13 hours drive to Dallas 2 hours to offload and paperwork.
Then drive to or wait in a truck stop no pay.
With the current crap rates you made $500 for approximately 20 hrs work and you may drive 3 or 4 hours for free to pick up your next load.
Hourly food service you got paid $460 for the 20 hours , I think chicago sysco rate is over $ 27 per hour so that's $540
If you break some eggs every week who cares nobody. Scratch a car every week the second week you don't have a job

 

Luckily I do very little auction work but it's always one pick and one drop.I Probably wouldn't haul cars if it was all auction work if they weren't staged and ready to load.

 

Car haul must not pay as well in the states... I was earning 24.50 hr, time and a half after 40 hrs.. usually 44 hrs a week, I work 5 days a week hauling cars and gross at least 400 per week more for about 50 hrs work

 

Why did you go to Texas? Not sure where you started from but I have only been to Tx 3 times in 4 years and I made sure it paid enough to deadhead out as I will not touch cheap crap

 

Tell ya what, I'm doing decked trucks and its not bad at all. I usually have to grunt and sweat for a couple hours about three times a week and the rest is just cruising along in a brand new right out of the factory truck.

It can be a little tough on a 95 degree day, but I kinda like it, and I'm almost 60 now. I don't want to do it for more than a few more years, but then again I don't want to do anything work related after about 62 or so. Until then, a little intensive labor does me some good I figure.

The money is good too. Plus they pay for the hotels, planes and rental cars, plus other stuff like taxis and breakdowns. I'm making more now than when I hauled crude, and I'm definitely making more than I did when I hauled fuel. The downside is I'm all over the country now, as opposed to being home every night. But WTH, its about eleventy-three billion degrees in South TX right now anyway. Biz supposedly slows down in the winter, so I'll take a month or so off then.

This is apropo of nothing, but just wanted to throw in a little different perspective on the vehicle-hauling business. I probably work harder than your average car-hauler, but I could think of a lot worse jobs than what I have now.

I would like to try car-hauling though. Food service, not so much.

 

Started food svc at 26, car hauling at 42... wouldn't have wanted to do it other way around... but at least I was in good shape for walking these lots doing pick outs