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Chinatown · Mar 8, 2020

Trailiner
https://trailiner.com
Address: 2169 E Blaine St, Springfield, MO 65803
Short and long hauls (2-3 day runs to Midwest/Ohio Valley, & 6 day runs west to CA, AZ, coast to coast)

x1Heavy · Mar 9, 2020

More like California in 4 days from Arkansas....

TravR1 · Mar 9, 2020

Chinatown said: ↑

Trailiner
https://trailiner.com
Address: 2169 E Blaine St, Springfield, MO 65803
Short and long hauls (2-3 day runs to Midwest/Ohio Valley, & 6 day runs west to CA, AZ, coast to coast)

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That's a nice grill guarder. I need one of those because of deer.

Moosetek13 · Mar 9, 2020

23 grand a year for insurance, so nearly 2 grand a month?
Don't get into trucking, that's for sure. Not if you want to pay a few other bills and eat as well.

TravR1 · Mar 9, 2020

GrumpyJoe said: ↑

Found out Soc.Sec. for me was cut due to WEP/ Government pension penalty. Wife had a run of Cancer and we lost most our retirement savings. waa waa waa.

Real problem is I moved to SW Missouri and wages here are nothing compared to California. Getting anything over $15 an hour is unlikely. I have 10 years to collect Soc. Sec. and the same for Medicare. Wifes insurance under Affordable Care is costing us $23,000 a year. Math is easy anything that gives us good medical will add $23,000 a year income to our budget.

Looked at a lot of the companies local and am waiting to start at Truck Dynasty CDL School. I will also apply for TWIC/TSA and HazMat before school. My son drives as well. The stories I am reading here and hearing form son are almost unbelievable. No phone calls even hands free, no bluetooth, no shorts no,no,no. Now I do not just chat away at the water cooler, nor do I spend all day on my phone. I do care about my wife but we could not talk much on the phone anyways.

I was looking at IWX, Schnieder, and Schafer. According to the boards here these are all bad. I find that hard to believe. I am a workaholic and always fill my shift. Driving I can only see bad dispatch or loader schedulers messing up the mileage. The latest is the west coast slow downs with 3-4 days sitting. If the wheels are not turning no one is making money.

How do I find a company that will keep me moving? How do I avoid a company that cuts medical insurance over mileage? I will drive until the wheels fall off but if I cannot get dispatched I will not be able to keep the mileage up. I am a numbers kind of guy. The math does not add up on most of these complaints so any help would be nice. If it is just younger drivers not used to working or unable to keep the HOS rules to their benefit I might understand better. Any help is great. Ideally I would like to be home a few days a month. What days do not matter too much. To be able to bring my old hag with me at times might also be nice. I have 11 acres with great semi access even with a full 53 foot box. On the same note, I have 11 acres that gets mowed weekly. The wife can keep up sorta but monthly I still will need to catch up. At first I will hire a neighbor as he could use the income. Eventually I want to be able to see home each month.
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With you and your wife both driving with a year of experience you can earn gross over a million in 5 years driving for line haul companies like R&L, if you ran wild and drove hard.

125k per driver, 250k for husband + wife per year.

Chinatown · Mar 9, 2020

x1Heavy said: ↑

More like California in 4 days from Arkansas....
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I think it means 6 day turn for solo driver, Springfield, MO depart & return.
They try to have the drivers running west coast bring the load to MO, then a regional driver takes it from there. The west coast driver can head back west on a short turnaround in Springfield.
Don't know if this has changed or not, but looks like a good plan.

GrumpyJoe · Mar 9, 2020

Chinatown said: ↑

I'm guessing a little; cdl school in Pomona, CA and you now live, in or, near Joplin, MO.
Is the class you'll attend 160 hours or more?
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For your financial needs, Transport National will probably work for you.
Probably make $1500 average weekly; drivers say it could be a little more or less.
This company hires new cdl school grads. Give a call and ask which class you should take. I feel like they'll want 160 hrs. at least, which is the Professional Driver, Class A (160 Hours) that Dynasty Trucking School offers.
Transport National
Transport National
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Springfield
5575 MO-OO
Strafford, Missouri 65757
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I moved from So Cal to the Mt Vernon area Missouri. Truck Dynasty is about 15 minutes from my house here in Missouri, Bois DArc I believe. They offer a 10spd class over 160 hours.

GrumpyJoe · Mar 9, 2020

radioshark said: ↑

If you any questions about Magnum I can answer them, been here 5 years
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It looks like Magnum is mostly a Northern route truck company? Based in the Dakitas would that really fit with living in Missouri?

Not that I am opposed to them just a bit of work with HR to be sure taxes get pulled in the right state. Other than that it looks like I would be out and about away from the terminals anyways. I guess I do not need a company in my back yard to make a buck.

Curious how much extra spousal insurance runs. I never thought about that. Currently it is between 12-1350 a month so it would have to be cheeper.

GrumpyJoe · Mar 9, 2020

TravR1 said: ↑

The numbers add up just fine.

Wheels aint turning you ain't earning isn't a blanket statement.

Layover pay: 150.00
Loaded dedicated: 1454 = 603.00
Loaded dedicated: 915 = 379.00
Empty dedicated: 938 = 342.00
Empty dedicated: 15 = 5.50
Other pay (training): 250.00
Stop pay, 5 stops: 150.00
Unload 1 time: 50.00

Total gross for week: $1,929.50

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Make sure where you end up working gives you good accessorial pay so you aren't only getting paid for turning miles.

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I get 1 week off per month, work the other 3 weeks. And get paid 850.00 the week I don't work.
It all averages out to about 1500.00 gross per week, about 80,000 a year.
That was driving my first year.

Those miles I posted, I only drove half of them, maybe less since I was training a new driver. That's not even a lot of miles. A solo driver could drive those miles. Eazy Peazy.

P.S. There's a 312.00 per diem on that. I only pay taxes on about 65,000 of that income.
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cheaper.

This looks like a good company. Do they take on over 55 drivers new to cdl? If so who are these wonderful people.

radioshark · Mar 9, 2020

GrumpyJoe said: ↑

It looks like Magnum is mostly a Northern route truck company? Based in the Dakitas would that really fit with living in Missouri?

Not that I am opposed to them just a bit of work with HR to be sure taxes get pulled in the right state. Other than that it looks like I would be out and about away from the terminals anyways. I guess I do not need a company in my back yard to make a buck.

Curious how much extra spousal insurance runs. I never thought about that. Currently it is between 12-1350 a month so it would have to be cheeper.
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We run a lot of KC, OKC and DFW

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