A new chapter begins and a new home for the Morehouse/fcc orphans

There was a guy on a ladder, shoving about a ten foot pole in to the load, breaking it loose for nearly 2 hours, as I ran the vibrator hoping for the best. About 3 hours later it broke loose and we were on to the next one

 

One lesson I learned quickly in the 90’s hauling grain was shut off a/c or heater fan if you don’t have outside cabin filters . Driving in a dusty cab sucked .

 

I am with FCC still and I run 4000 mile weeks routinely. A SLOW week for me is anything under 3000 or so. I get about 2300 to 2400 on weeks where I go home for a few days.

 

Are you a lease operator (or owner operator, whatever they're calling it)? Or are you a company driver?

Because that makes a huge difference. I have a hard time believing OTR company guys on W2's are making over six figures per year pulling dry van, which you are if you're pulling in 4k mile weeks consistently on an ELD. That's (4k miles per week) more than what the solo LTL linehaul guys run weekly on the biggest mileage bid runs, where the ONLY thing they do is hook, swap and drop.

But then again, I've never seen a trucker from the internet who DIDN'T make six figures per year, so who knows. If normal W2 employees that are company drivers are all making six figures with at least 4-6 days off per month pulling a dry van for FCC, hats off to each and every one of you. Don't ever let that job go.

Also, one persons experience at a company won't be another's. It's clear that FCC monitors the main thread on this forum. It's not far fetched to believe that some people will get rewarded for routinely posting and keeping the thread active and on the top page. Then there's other drivers who are just naturally more buddy buddy with upper management and dispatch. What I just wrote applies to every sector of the economy, that's just life.

So, while your experience of being able to run 4k miles per week consistently week after week after week on electronic logs (and not paper) may be true (and very impressive to do with ELD's rather than paper logs, I might add), that doesn't discount what others are saying about the company either.

Bzinger, glad you found your fit with this local job. You probably meet some pretty cool people doing what you do. Plus having the comforts of home is always nice.

 

I never said I am consistently pulling 4k mile weeks. I said I routinely do it. I ranged from 1000 to 4450ish for the last 12 months. My overall average for the year is usually pretty close to 3300 miles per week. That is just taking my paid miles for the year and dividing by the number of weeks. Before the downturn, I would get 4200-4400 on week and from 3000 to 3400 the next, repeat until I went home for 4 or 5 days. That week would usually be around 1500 miles or so, since I don't really live on our primary East/West Lanes. I turned 4 4000+ mile weeks last quarter. My usual quarter is about 35k to 38k miles, and my last full year, I did just under 160k miles.

 

I would use the words "routinely" and "consistently" interchangeably with no distinction between the two words. That's where the confusion in communication was I guess.

160k miles per year on $0.55 CPM is 88k per year, on $0.60 CPM 96k per year. So your yearly gross is about 88k-100k, depending on bonuses.

Respect for making that on a W2 pulling a dry van and getting 5 days off per month as a company driver (you never answered whether you're lease or company, I'll assume company).

That's way more than what I make. I'm not even close to touching those numbers.

But again, seems to be a tale of two different experiences for various FCC drivers. Probably similar to most workplaces, even outside of trucking.

Thanks for taking the time to respond to me.

 

Kind of amazing how one’s attitude improves on hourly pay. I doubt I will ever do mileage pay again.

 

Heard Ryan turned in his rental truck, who is the other?