Challenger Motor Freight?

Every time I get the itch to put my class 1 to use I just read what the starting pay is and that kills that idea off pretty quickly lol.

 

Something to consider.....

Don't run down south for these outfits if you can help it - that 37 cpm adjusted for exchange is about 29cpm.

 

Sure, but you get way better miles/loads and event pay down south. Just don't buy #### down there, stock the fridge before you leave, and use your points from fueling to get stuff at the truckstop. My first run to the states in training, I got pilot/love's/ultra one rewards cards, and I just used those points at the truck stop vs cash. With the lane premiums, US miles bonus and other stuff, I made .47cpm down south in my first year.

 

Yep I hear ya, it's a tough spot to be in. No dept or overhead at home will save your arse though.

Get that experience, spread your wings and fly away to a great job! I understand you said you've looked high and low, does that include food service places? I lived in Vancouver at the time I got my license (13 years ago) and with 0 experience I was making 17 or 18$ an hour at Neptune (gfs now) had nice grapefruits for biceps and home every day.

 

I would not recommend anyone work for Gordon or Sysco in 2018, they have become computer run corporations. They will literally kill you on the job, and not even feel bad about it. Its to bad tho, lots of the older guys I work with, used to love working at both of those places. Now their a couple slave driver companies, who violate pretty much every HOS/Labour law we have in Canada. If you get hurt, they will drop you so fast, you won't know what happened. I think the last guy we hired from Gordon, said they expected him to do 400+ packages of food, in 1hr 45 mins solo, in the winter, for $24.57/hr.

 

What you are doing is trying to break into a career where wages are going to go south. Only a matter of time before its all immigrants and women driving trucks. No more will they be stranded slinging coffee at Timmies or working the till at the Macs as trucking is a cesspool for the uneducated.