Pay

They also require OTR experience, as if a conversation last month. Didn't ask if they were Union: anybody know?

 

Almost $30 here with union benefits. But, I keep seeing posts like this... You as a new driver need to stop going after the best paying gigs because as a new driver, you will not get them. You have to pay your dues. Go OTR for a trainer company OR if your lucky, find a local LTL gig or something else local depending on your area. Once you have 5 SAFE and incident free years, come back to this question. There are no shortcuts in this industry.

 

I have seen a lot of comments some bravado but nobody has answered the actual question. Actually I am not sure there is an answer now. My father told me once it all goes back to the hubs trucks once had on them. It was in the days before GPS, QUAILCOMMS and cell phones. The only way a company had to gauge your work output was that hub. Therefore you were paid according to that hub. Traditions die hard and with the advent of new technologies to track a driver that per miles system is outdated.

 

What! Some people pay their dues before they are truck drivers. Last two people hired at my terminal are right out of school. No experience. Top pay.

So keep applying, you will get hired. Go straight to the top. 5 safe driving years is the trucking companies dream but they need people and are willing to train you.

We trained for two months. 40 hours a week at $20+ an hour. Now we are driving thousands of miles a week at almost double a mega company's pay. Don't settle keep looking.

 

they don't pay by the hour,because it's easy to cheat the clock.
although with e-logs it may be easier to keep track of the drivers real time hours.

 

When I posted my first post I had forgot about a big debate we all had @ Angelos in Newport News a while back. We were discussing this decades old pay by the mile thing. We also got into it about that stupid 9 tenths you see on ALL Gas and diesel prices. These things are just relics from the past that nobody has changed because their rooted into our basic way of life.

 

I thought the contract with usps for any contractor was strictly set - the last I heard it was starting at $21 an hour and no less.

 

I think you're right but maybe it varies by location?

They also get benefit pay of $5.11/hour for their first 40 hours if I'm not mistaken. Not sure how "benefit pay" really works though as I've never gotten it personally.

yes they're all teamsters as far as I know.
They also take students and recent grads.

 

Because companies would go broke from pay or can't find drivers

 

CRE would be abou a modest 15k per year