Companies that continually hire.

It varies per company. Not all companies are the same. One company I'm hoping to work for has drivers with an average of 10 years with the company. My last company had 5,000 drivers and over 1,000 with 20 or more years with the company. CR England and Werner the majority of their drivers have 1 year or less total experience. Good companies are not hiring 1,000 drivers per month and hoping to keep 5 or 6 for maybe 1 year.

 

It costs money to hire drivers and not just the cost of the pizza they feed them or the notebook and hat they give them at orientation.

 

You got a notebook?

 

Ya that's for real. I haul into paper mills and my longest wait time so far is 6 hours. 2 hours is quite common. My wife is like what do you do the whole time. What's it look like? I sit on here lol.

 

We did 84 hours for a Americold Shipper in Salinas CA once straight. Day and night for FFE.

We were arranging a local fuel dealer to bring 400 gallons of fuel to us with our credit card when the shipper knocked on our door.

That particular week was a total loss. No money in that entire load. We loaded and got just about 420 gallons all up (100 gal reefer and 340 gallons tractor which leaves very little) Precooling was -20 continuous. In the heat it was not good.

No money worth that for us no money for FFE either. But two officers within the company, Operations bosses on the west coast saw fit to send us in there with Emergency messages go there now.

Whats compounding the entire fiasco was that LA was not far south nor was San Fran. FFE was all over CA in those days. They could have a solo sit there and load it.

Never again.