Ok.Ok.Ok.. What is going on? I`ve got questions

What's the dropped mic thing about? I just started seeing it

 

Really lol thats old kinda means he had the last word and has won in his opinion.

 

I think Obama did that

 

1,700 is a bit over half a weeks driving.
Aim a bit higher if you want a paycheck.
Or find a company with outrageous CPM.

We gripe when we get less than 3,000

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance is expensive everywhere you go... (and higher now after Obamacare)... some company may tout "free" insurance but that is only one piece of a package of benefits. So you might get free insurance but not make any money driving.

Keep reading the threads here on TTR and you will find a good company for sure... or a good field of trucking to get into.

Good Luck in your search and Stay Safe!!!

 

The 100% company-paid health insurance that you might find at a handful of places will typically require 18-24 months of continuous employment before it kicks in and it will be for the "single employee" portion only.

I sincerely hope you find a place that can keep you a lot busier than 1,700 MPW unless it offers a lot of other accessorial pay opportunities. In my OTR world, anything less than 3,000 MPW is a bad week.

Yes, it makes sense to try and work less for more $, but that's not always available to everyone, when they want it. You will find employers discover it's in their interest to keep employees "hungry and motivated to produce" (not too much pay and not too little pay)

Search here in this forum "per diem" (title only)

 

Change companies.

Some companies you have many drivers all competing for the same miles... those miles get spread around to keep the drivers a bit happy... then come into the holiday season the company has enough drivers to cover the excess loads... after the holidays, drivers go back to scraping for the same miles.

Keep doing your homework here on finding a better company... I've never worked for one of the megas so I don't know what works and what doesn't.

 

No kidding... thinking there is a bit of photoshopping happening in that photo.

 

It has basically already been said, but free medical is an unicorn in this industry. I think transland will pay driver medical, but only after a period of time as an employee.

Crete runs a lot of miles and they will hire relatively inexperienced drivers. They pay well, but govern their trucks at 60 or 62 mph. So does Magnum, but we are mostly reefer for OTR and govern at 64. There are a lot of companies out there that run 2500 miles in a bad week and can average 2800+ on the year if you want to run that hard.

Per Diem is an equivalent to the $56 a day you get as a tax break for business related room and board expenses at the end of the year. The difference is that you get it tax free up front on your pay check, but then have a smaller refund check at the end of the year. There is a bit more to it than that, but it would do no good for me to describe my situation to you, as every driver is different. You will have to research this further on your own.

A lot of companies have dedicated or regional fleets that do not run the NE. Several western-based carriers almost never run NE. Look into Pride or Magnum for this. Others will offer you a bonus for running NE. Transland does this, I believe.

Anywhere you go, keeping yourself running hard and staying busy is a matter of communication. You have to tell them when you plan to arrive, and what your hours look like. That said, it is usually easier to get your point across in a smaller company than it is in a larger one, though this is not always true.

Idle policies exist almost everywhere, now. You can't really run from them. Just look for a company that has one you can live with. My company runs APUs in all trucks, and asks us to use them most of the time. They allow idling when it is very cold or very hot. That's about as fair as it gets when someone else is paying for the fuel IMHO.

The best thing you can do is look up companies on your own, then come back here and ask specific questions. I listed a few places for you to start, but each person is different, and not everyone lives near the hiring areas of the companies I listed above, or is willing to work for a company that doesn't have a terminal within a thousand miles of home. Find something that looks good, then do a search here, then ask any questions you still have.