DO NOT WORK FOR ICELAND TRANSPORT BAIT AND SWITCH

You were making 28.35 at Estes? That's great, good for you, but I couldn't careless, isn't that top out for for pedal routes there? Even WITH over time you weren't cracking 50/hr and you didn't see that until AFTER 55 hours so how that is relevant is beyond me. NOBODY and I mean NOBODY is paying 50/hr for a #### thing related to truck driving where I'm at, so my initial statement still holds true. Where you get the impression I'm "part of the cheap driver problem" is beyond me. I think you're reaching a bit there. By the way, I quit the slave trade of driving months ago. I make double if not more than I ever did driving a truck, running a small business as a one man show. So you do you, and I'll do me.

 

Either way, in the end I think you took my post out of context and we ended up in a conversation about something neither of us necessarily intended. I've been in a similar position myself. I'm the last one to settle for pay that isn't indicative of what I'm worth as a driver. After my last job ended due to the owner selling his 7 trucks, I went months looking for a legitimate job in my area, and there wasn't anything worth my time and effort, not to mention hassles from DOT, the cops, etc etc for me to even think about dealing with the BS. But that's just in my area and what I've personally observed from talking to a multitude of different types of companies. In other areas that's not the case, and there are great jobs. There are some great jobs here, but they're taken and when people get a hold of them, they don't let go. After really thinking about it, I threw a little cash together, bout some "ok" equipment for the industry I was looking to get into, and now I make well over what I ever made driving a truck, and I made anywhere from 800 on slow weeks to 1600 on good weeks driving a rig locally. I miss it, but I don't miss the BS. This is 2018, there are quite a few ways to start a business and make some good $$$ with half the hassle and headache if you have different skill sets. I wish you the best.

 

The minute Craigslist ad was mentioned I would’ve said

 

He’s offering to pay cash under the table and it’s a big surprise the guy isn’t on the up and up?

 

You pay me 50 an hour to drive a truck you can take me anywhere! Hell you can sit next to me on the truck and call me racist remarks the whole day! Just as long as it’s atleast 8+ hour days

 

Some you guys really know how to shoot yourself in foot .
Maybe it's from breath too much diesel fumes , last i heard most of the line haulers were making around 62 cmp and $29 an hour for drop n hook

 

Sounds like a typo on the part of Craigslist