Beginning a journey at Danny Herman Trucking

Many decent otr companies paying in the .60s-.70s+

Crete for example average drivers getting .66 plus bonuses.
Never heard of drivers struggling to get miles there.


Bar nunn has interesting regional job.
$260 per shift plus $90 per load.
Doesn't matter how many miles you do that is locked in pay.



Danny Herman is too cheap.

 

There’s a reason those companies are paying like that.

 

Because they want drivers and to pay them well so they aren't tempted to looked for better pay elsewhere.

 

Or... so the drivers might put up with all the bs the company hands them.
Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

 

That's the reefer division.
I worked for crete years ago (dry van) and had no issues there. Many miles and mostly drop and hook.

 

I always say money isn’t everything but it definitely is something. But the longer I’m out here the more I realize I value other things as much and in some cases even more than just the cents per mile. A lot of it has to do with how do they run you. I like one or two days per week where I don’t have to be sitting in the driver’s seat at exactly 10 hours when my break is up. I’d like to have a lazy day or two. So I can get off the truck and maybe do something. And not have to worry about it cutting into my sleep. But I also like to get my miles. Lol some companies have a lot of regular drop and hook customers so you have a lot of flexibility on when you can get the load there…. For example they’ll say anytime on the delivery day, and this too will leave you a lot of flexibility. It just takes a lot of stress out of it when you get a few loads like that per week. Also, when you come back from your days off do you get a choice of several different loads or do they just give you one? Stuff like that. Is it not a big deal to ask for an extra day off? Is the equipment good and reliable, I can tell you first hand you’ll lose more pay than anything else if a company is running junkie equipment. Lol there will be several times where you’ll be out of a paycheck for weeks at a time throughout the average year if you work for a company with crappy equipment. Maybe even more than that. Do they micromanage you or pretty much leave you alone. ALL of those things and more matter to me as much as CPM. DHT seems to keep their drivers, so like I said before they must be doing something right. My guess is Drivers are enjoying the long average load length of around 1000 miles per load from what I hear. I usually get one load per week that’s around 1000 miles. The rest are all 300 to 500 miles

 

Point taken, but I'd rather not poo on the OP's journey at Danny Herman.

 

Somehow Swift, CR England, Western Express etc keep drivers too. Doesn't mean anything.

Point of a job is the make money so it should be number 1 priority and DHT is cheap.