What did you make your first year doing ltl linehaul?

What company are you headed to Monday?

 

I wish I could come up with a joke about the exchange rate right now.

You probably made more money per kilometer than most drivers in the states were making per mile!

 

Respect, yo.

 

i'll try to dig up a few checks, but i used to run linehaul where i'm at here and i think i was averaging $1350 per week.

But the problem with linehaul is not the money, it's being able to stay awake. Being able to work at 4:30 in the morning etc.

Can you work at night and sleep during the day, decently, is the question. What are you going to do at 3am on a sunday morning?

 

We don't run turnpike doubles. Only triples, and rocky mountain doubles. Aside from that... Montana pays about $50-$90k a year depending on who you run for and what route you get.

 

37k at UPS Freight in 2011. But I started in late March and it was a slow year for us, plus the starting pay is low for LTL's but high at top rate in 4 years.

 

I started out in the middle of the payscale because I came from the city, so I don't really have a good estimate. Maybe @mickeyrat can weigh in on what the first year is like at our place.

So much of it depends on the runs available at a given terminal. Our bottom guys pay some dues at first, but still make real good money.