Anyone running doubles or heavyhaul?

heavy haul means just what the name emplys heavy such as machinery and heavy equipment somtimes you exceed a 100000 lbs and as lily as not your overwidth and somtimes to long . these loads need a specil permit to haul them and the do pay more that about all i haul and you dont see doubel trailers with heavy haul but you do see longer trailers ive puled loads as long as 180 ft and longer and thats not counting the tractor it is somtimes and adventure and parking is almost always a problem hope this helps ----southernpride

 

Heavy Haul # Sumner means Costco Fleet. In HH, you will start with a 3 axle Volvo (gutless shop queen) or Freightliner pulling 3 axle 53 ft reefers. After you prove yourself (on time, not a whiner, etc), you will be offered the chance to upgrade to a 4 axle Freightliner. With this truck, you can pull anything... 3xle reefers or 4 axle dry. The 4 axles are all 13 spd trannys (nice).

After you have at least 6 mo solo driving, you can opt to go doubles. You are not paid for hook and drop, only rolling. Advantage: + .04/mile. Disadvantage: Parking sucketh.

Either way, your money will be made in the "sliding pay chart" which is available at the Swift website. Add .01/per mile for running heavies.

I've been on HH for about 1.5 years here. Outhauls are to a Costco store (120-400 miles), backhauls are fairly random with deadheads (DH) about 20% of the time. Note that DH are at the base mileage rate (my case .33/mile) no matter how far they are.

Advice: get driver reward cards at every truck stop: Petro, Flying J, etc. Free lunch is worth it. Oh and avoid the Bend, OR run. Taking a heavy over OR 26 is slow work......

 

Oops, you asked about pay, sorry.

The 1st 3 months is very rough. I averaged $400-600 a week. After that I was up to about $800. Typical miles will be 1800-2400 a week. You can suppliment your income by volunteering for local runs which typically pay at $12 an hour (includes docktime).

A good pattern is to take a Spokane run one day, next day locals and a short (portland etc). While the Portland runs are short miles, they are also short time. They pay me $68-$74 each way, I can go down and back and grab a local to make $150+ a day. Rinse and repeat...