Pay vs hometime

False. The right company will offer the perfect combination of hometime and money.

 

I'm surprised Reinhart only pays 50k or so, I thought they were compensated a little better to start. Tough decision.

 

Don't know how it is there, but we had some guys leave for Reinhart and it was pretty much a lateral move, money-wise. Their component pay is way less than McLane, but incentives and bonuses make up the difference.

 

That is basically the question all truckers have to answer. Not all, unicorn jobs exist but they are few and I personally don't believe everything I hear. I took the money though.

 

This is the saddest post in the history of TTR. Bless you, good sir.

*cue Harry Chapin*

 

Yeah that seems low food service should be 60K-80K 50 is to low.

 

I was going to say 50K a year seems a little low heck back in the stone age (2006) you could have bought your self a nice used Ford Crown Victoria or 1996 Chevy Caprice and leased on to Diamond Cab in Washington, DC and if you really hustled could have made $50-60K+ a year working as a cab driver in Washington, DC. Just have to decided night shift or day shift.

 

I put in an app with McLane a week ago and got a preliminary call back from them. Still waiting for more word. The $80,000/year and being out a few nights out of the week doesn't sound as bad as the "weeks-to-months" out on the road the long-haulers are either forced, or choose to deal with.
A nice, long, somewhat predictable route with a few days/nights out of the week doing whatever seem quite alright to me. Yet at the same time, I'm still kind of debating whether it's wise to leave the dairy loading/delivering thing I'm doing right now. I mean two dairies to load a night at most and then deliver 4-5 loads dropped in the yard to the cheeseplant. Figure $300/night, plus the dispatch is kind of cool if I've got to come in later in the night for varied reasons.
Long hours are inevitable, but the biggest thing I'm looking for is a consistent start-time each night.