6 months Solo driver, considering trying to find a new company

Some union companies have free health insurance for the driver and it's also cheap for the drivers family.
It's high quality insurance also.
Go on the hunt for a union truck driver job.

 

It seems you describe the problem as being expensive insurance but then ask for just random companies that hire newbies with less than 1 year experience. That formula just makes you the new guy at another company that may also have expensive insurance. How is that an improvement? Call companies and ask about their insurance costs starting in 2026. Depending on the reason for the insurance costs, it may be an industry wide feature, in which case changing companies just throws away your current situation and delivers nothing better.

When asking companies and other drivers working for other employers I suggest you ask them to describe what is going on at their company. "how much did you make last week. How many miles did you drive last month, what's your schedule, how much do benefits cost?" Too many people describe their whole life story and then ask "is this a good company to work for?" Everyone has different needs and are in different situations. When people ask questions like "is this a good place to work" they hand over the decisions about what is good and what they need to other people. Ask factual questions and not descriptive questions. If you were buying a car, ask how fast does it go, how many miles does it have, what fuel mileage does it get instead of is this a cool car, do you like that car, is this a good buy. Some questions provide no information, even if they are answered.

 

If you’re looking for good insurance try Marten

 

Wow that's around $9600 per year seems a lot to be paying for health insurance that's for sure. However would you be able to obtain any cheaper health insurance working for another company? If you could then yes by all means change companies if you could drop your bill down by 50 % or more. I would want to be absolutely sure that was the case though before changing companies as it seems your quite happy at Swift. Also the best option would be to beat the diabetes which is a huge problem no pills, powers or other medicines just eating healthy and fasting can do wonders for high blood sugar levels something the healthcare industry does not want people to know so they'll stay hooked on whatever drugs they've prescribed for them, make it your goal to put your doctor out of business some {doctors} laugh at this when I tell them.

 

$9600 a year is cheap in the USA. He can get it much cheaper at the right trucking company.

 

While employees like to complain about the cost of health insurance, many employees don't understand their employer is paying some large fraction of the insurance. At one job while many of us drivers were complaining about the outrageous cost of insurance, we were only paying about 25% of what the insurance cost. The employer was paying the other 75%. Until the ObamaCare rules required employers to give the employee a 1099 for that employer-provided amount, many employees had no idea if they were paying all or part of the actual cost of insurance.

 

My stepdad recently retired from Nucor Steel and so lost his employer plan that covered him and my mom. $252/mo for both of them. Not union but a large nationwide company. A big LTL like OD, FedEx Freight, etc. would probably have excellent plans. Might make him wait 90 days though.

 

They really missed the boat on the ACA of 2008. I was a still a young punk back in those days who ordinarily didn't give a rip about such topics and even I was outraged at how big of a nuclear fail that was.

 

ACA is getting worse.