P&D City Driver - Hours

I started at FXF as a driver apprentice right after I got my CDL. It helps knowing how to drive the truck and shift gears. Some guys at my hub applied with their permit and couldn't even pass the first week in the yard. I honestly learned a lot more as a driver apprentice than I did when I was in school for CDL.

 

Thank you sir. I enjoy your posts, especially when it come to grocery hauling. You seem to know your stuff. I’ll try to get on with an outfit hauling groceries but I’d also be ok with 55-60 a week doing P&D

 

Whether an LTL pays overtime or not will generally not determine your hours workload. It basically boils down to your seniority, the size of the terminal, how busy the terminal is, how shorthanded they are (guys hurt, on vacation, call offs, shortstaffed, etc), and whether or not they use combo drivers. Like at FedEx and XPO they love combos, so you might be a city man but you can also work the dock and maybe also pull a set at night sometimes and so your pay on linehaul will be by the mile not the hour.

Like R&L pays no no overtime but I know men there that only work an 8 and skate. And then I know guys at FedEx Freight who are working 10+ hours a day and FedEx pays overtime after 8/40. YRC and Holland same deal: they pay OT after 8/40 but some of those guys are putting in 60-hour workweeks because of all the dock work.

Every LTL is different, every individual terminal is run differently...you really have to talk to guys at that particular barn to get a sense of what your hours will be like.

 

It took 3 weeks before I could start training with the instructor. The whole training took 4 weeks before I could be on my own. I can't tell you how many weeks or months you'll be working on the dock. Each hub is different. You can always apply and call operations manager for that hub and ask. Or just go there and ask inside

 

And that’s in Baltimore? Born and raised there. I’m moving to a city in Washington, not sure if they compare to east coast cities like that in terms of freight volume.

 

Do you know which of these companies has the best 401k?

 

I really wouldn't know other than what I heard and talking to other LTL P&D drivers. FXF I think is about 6-7 % match. They also have some Union barns as well. Saia, ODFL, Estes I think is around 6% too. Some of them I think are only 50% of the 6%...don't know which ones though. I would imagine the average would be around 6%. FXF I THINK is the only one I know of that matches 100% of the 6%. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. I'm sure someone else can jump in and answer your question.