I'm currently doing the courier gig, maybe I can help. I'm not sure of your experience level, so if I get too basic, sorry. If you're working...
I think any one who is driving for a living or on the road a lot ought to think about some sort of dash cam setup. I'm currently using one...
Great, now next time I pass a Schneider truck with my buggy I'll have to look for the triangle.
Generally, on "normal duty" I go about 6-7K miles, using regular Pennzoil. Not had a lot of good luck with longevity regularity stretching to 10K...
Last gig was office supplies, lots of paper and flat pack office desks. A lot of stop and go city traffic to max GVW. If I got 13mpg with no...
Good Idea actually, except some of the stuff I'm hauling is 3" and 4" pipe. Usually would be a load of 10-15 pieces. So far I can get by with...
Yesterday was a VERY slow day for some reason, slowest I've ever seen, more time spent under a shade tree waiting than actually running. Got bored...
High upkeep and initial buy-in is what scares me off the Sprinter and making me take a long and hard look. The new Ford Sprinter variant is...
Going to be the standard answer of "it depends" My income's been going up as I get better at scheduling, routing, etc. My deal is unique to the...
So I"m currently running a 1999 Savana 2500 I bought for not a lot of cash, a few months ago for a delivery gig, didn't plan on this being long...
The upside to composite toe boots is the box toes don't conduct cold as much in the wintertime, nor electricity if you're working in that sort of...
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End of the day, probably one good pair of steel toe boots that lace to ankle, (my current pair are Wellco Navy Flight Deck in brown), a pair of...
And I now have to add steel mills to the list. Have a USS mill on my route, plan on spending at least 45 minutes to deliver one package, over an...
From what the OP wrote it sounds like the recruiter told him $1100, per week and it wasn't mileage based? Like in salary? Not only was the guy...
The wife was doing a lot of navigating on the delivery route we were doing, not the same places everyday, except for a pharmacy and post office....
Drac, sounds like you're applying for WIA or something similar then. Have thought about doing WIA, but the county's funding's dried up until July...
This was as of earlier this year, about March or so. In SOME markets, Schneider will pay up front for your CDL school. In the case I looked into...
Residential, small businesses, fast, quick and mostly easy. In and out. Those low rise office buildings that don't have elevators can be a pain....
Come to think of it, the warehouse/company I used to run might have qualified as a not so great place to deliver. Down in Ft. Mohave/Bullehead...
