Earl L. Henderson Trucking/Salem,IL

I am a new Henderson company driver and very frustrated with no miles and the lack of pay. I wonder where you all are getting the miles and decent pay. A newbie would like some help on that one or who to talk to since my DM seems okay but not touchable as some say he is and I feel he just does not want to hear from me. Thanks

 

Maybe it's changed there since Trekker bought the company. Consider a company that has a guaranteed minimum weekly pay which means you can make more than the minimum , but not less.
@DoubleO7 works for West Side Transport and says it's a really good place to work and the guarantee is the real thing.
K&B Transportation also has guaranteed minimum weekly pay.

 

You dry(tennant) or reefer(prime)?
I'm on dry side at (henderson/tennant/trekker. I'm company driver.
My loads(mpt/loaded) are from about 600 to 800 miles average. I guess I get around 2000 to 2200 miles a week. I only stay out 15 to 25 days at a time.

 

West Side Transport continues to baffle me. I'm 14 months in and it is the most polite, respectful work environment I have experienced out of jobs in 3 varied careers. I just never have to worry about miles. I may a game of trying to push my 70. That is how I evaluate my performance.

 

It never ceases to baffle me how some people can not only put up with this, but actually think they have the world by the gonads?!?
Let me see if I got this right: You live in that truck for more than 2 and 3 weeks at a time...get a whole two thousand miles per 7 day period...and you're 'content' with that?

Last OTR van job I had before getting out of it; I left the house on Monday morning, did 6, 7, or some times 8 puddle jumps in the Midwest, then home early Friday afternoon for an average of 2,500 to 2,700 miles---and it pissed me off.
Why'd it piss me off? Because I didn't feel like I should have had to work that hard (1 1/2 to some times 2 loads a day) to get those miles and get home? Boss was banking some serious coin on "hot" JIT loads, and didn't want to spread the joy. Greed.

Different people, different goals I reckon.