Any updated info on Tyson Foods ?

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I’m Arkansas regional, and very happy with it. I generally leave around noon on Sunday and return around noon on Friday. I can usually get home through the week, if I want. Pay and benefits are great! Any specific questions?

 

If I were interested in driving for Tyson or any company, my specific questions would be:

#1. Pay… how much? And how many miles, about, per week? Forget the baloney that so many people like to tell themselves about pay not being everything… pay is everything.. anything else is a distant second. If anyone tells you otherwise, tell them to do volunteer work, specifically, driving a truck.

#2. Benefits… again, how much and what is covered for health insurance?

#3. Read driver reviews about your chosen company (including on this truckers forum); are there consistant, negative remarks? Pay attention… and take the rebuttals against those negative driver reviews with a grain of salt; company schills are a dime a dozen (notice it’s always the same people, over and over) and are actually empowering unfair and unsafe behavior by these large trucking companies.

 

I can only speak to my experience and fleet. We have about a thousand different options for drivers, and they’re all different in one way or another. Pay is mid sixty cent range with per diem. Drop pay is 35 dollars, and it’s almost all drop and hook. Layover/breakdown is 100, and can be stacked to adp. We have employee stock purchase and 401k with employer match. Insurance is inexpensive and coverage is excellent. It’ll take a recruiter to break it down more. I’m not one.

 

That’s the bottom end. I get closer to 97, and 100 is not unrealistic. Detention is available, but not a policy. You will be paid if held up too long.