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Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Bud A., Sep 28, 2019.
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I will admit it's hard finding A QUALITY woman lol. My dad would kill me if I brought a tramp to his house. I'm his only successful son lolBud A. and Texas_hwy_287 Thank this. -
I can't decide if I regret it or not, looking back. On the one hand, I didn't really want to find out most of this stuff about myself. On the other hand, I know I'm a better person for it, since I had to confront myself and change my behavior and attitudes.
Plus I have a family, which is nice. Some people don't have a family, and many of those people are sadder for it. If you know any of them, try to find the time to befriend them. -
Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply. I turned in my truck to QC at the terminal yesterday. I decided to take a job with Crete Carriers running Walmart dedicated out of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It serves all the Walmarts in Wyoming and Colorado, and some of them in Montana, Utah, and New Mexico. Pay is good, benefits are good and less expensive, average miles are said to be 2400 per week, 10 - 15 stops per week. Six days out, one day off (Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday). I can stay out and go home less often, but this way I know I can always get home each week if I need to. We'll see how it all works out.
There's a terminal at the DC in Cheyenne. Pickups are preloaded trailers, deliveries are all no-touch, so it sounds pretty easy. I'll figure out how to bump docks, I'm sure. Hard part will be the winter driving and running hard, especially during the busy season coming up. Good part will be steadier and better pay, never going east, and as close to recession-proof as it gets in trucking. People always buy food, Walmart is at the top of the Fortune 500, and Crete is a mega with lots of cash. I'm not against working for a mega just because it's a mega. I've talked to a few Crete drivers at truck stops and they were all pretty happy (but maybe not everyone on this board lol.)
Here's the pay scale. There's also $30 per stop beyond the first and last stop. You can definitely get from Cheyenne to Denver and back in under 300 miles even with multiple stops, and that's where many of the stores are.
Pretty soon I expect I'll be on here talking about how I put $1000 a week in the bank and making two or three times that by day trading tech stocks with an app on my phone, which will be my real job.Last edited: Oct 8, 2019
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The wind is terrible in Wyoming. It's always blowing. Looks like they're getting snow tonight, too. I think I moved winter up for myself by a couple of months by taking this job. -
Those sliding scales can really work in your favour if you can land the short hauls every week. I worked with Paul's Hauling, a tanker company in Winnipeg, for three months this summer and they used that same type of pay structure. Everyone was begging for the long runs, but I was banking big money (when I had work, lol) on the 20-30 minute short hauls around Winnipeg. Some trips paid almost $35/hr.
The only reason I left besides the fact I wasn't to fond of either tanker or asphalt work, was because I worked maybe 40 hours a week. That would have been great had I not been making only 51 cpm in a 62mph governed truck down-tuned to 400hp pulling B-trains (139,900 lbs gross).
Their philosophy for pay was definitely fantastic (as was their benefits and pension package) but the micro-management combined with the slow trucks and only average pay/work-load drove me insane. I love this industry for the driving, so that's what I'm doing now.Bud A. and Texas_hwy_287 Thank this.
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