why the ** do LTL drivers get paid a lot more than everybody else.. Please explain!

Any company that does business with other business and individuals alike will always make the bulk of their money from their business accounts. The customer accounts are just icing on the cake.

I used to work for an internet service provider who receives a quarter of a million dollars a month from a grocery chain popular here in the South. I serviced small business owners with their technical needs and commented to someone higher up than me that it seems like they don't really care about their smaller accounts. His response was they don't. All they cared about was how many calls I could handle in a single day (cost per call). They didn't give half a care in the world how I handled it.

They have actuaries that sit around and calculate how much slack they can get away with and still maintain the bulk if their client base, then they allocate just enough resources and energy to just barely meet that bottom baseline. Was something I touched on in some of my math classes back when school was a thing for me.

 

That is the most experience required I have heard of for any ltl, unless you are UPS Freight
But I do not doubt what you are saying for your particular job/terminal

 

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wrong, we are the life line in the trucking industry. You can never qualify, because your NOT GOOD ENOUGH. You Fxxx up too much, and the industry does not want you. you cost too much to insure. YOUR A Fxxxen risk. Stay away. HA,HA,HAAAAA

 

The real question is why they've had to drop
Thier hiring standards for new drivers?

If they make a hundred grand a year, and are
Home every night, and off 2 days a week.
Why in the world are they always hiring and
Taking on drivers with little to no experience now.

Somebody's lying about something.
They should have a two year waiting list for a
Trucking job like this.

 

From what I have read, it's due to booming freight levels and LTLs company desire to expand or maintain market share.

Also, maybe just a false rumour, supposedly Old Dominion has determined that new CDL drivers they put through their own driver training course, end up with better safe driving record than the experienced drivers they hire.

I do agree it takes a while to learn how not to break a new toy.

 

you don't learn how to perfect things overnight. takes time and practice. New rookie truck driver is not going to do better than a veteran driver. not gonna happen

 

cant help seeing these new clowns driving trucks, with there knee laying against the driver window.

 

The LTL companies are full of 20-30 year drivers, and many are retiring, getting medical issues that disqualify them, there is some turn over in the newer hired drivers, but most stay and will stay. Many LTL companies are growing, and the older drivers are leaving, forcing them to hire more drivers, there used to be wait lists, now they only hire a few out of many applicants and order to train dock works into city drivers and city drivers into line haul, but to be balanced they have to lower requirements to hire those dock workers and they open it up to everyone to apply.

When a younger group of drivers is established I bet the line haul companies won’t need to hire as much as they have been. 8 retirements this year at my terminal and 30 new runs opened up. Even small terminals have retirements and those with medical issues mostly age related.