Coastal Transport

Road Raider

There terminals are from Baltimore south into Florida. All in the southeast.

I am starting with them in a few weeks.

good luck!!

 

Apollo Beach, FL - Baltimore, MD - Bridgeport, AL - Jacksonville, FL - Lexington, SC - Louisville, AL - Mocksville, NC - Savannah, GA - Selma, NC

 

"I am starting with them in a few weeks."

hope you're ready to work your ##### off for what amounts to $7.00/hr.

 

Please explain your comment. I am not sure what you mean and would like to know. Bad company? I know their pay per mile is not that bad.

 

I wouldn't say it's a "bad" company. but "pay per mile" doesn't mean anything, if you're not getting the miles. you'll be putting in 14-16 hour days, 5.5-7 days a week and only getting around 1800 miles a week, or less. you'll spend your time tarping and untarping, waiting for your next load, waiting half a day for a "pre"loaded load (and WON'T get detention pay for that.) the first couple years I worked there, I made good money. when I went back, I was making about half.

with the way construction has come to a halt, hauling construction materials is not a good gig to be in right now. but if you don't mind $7-8 an hour, and don't mind working yourself to death for it, CT might be alright for you. I quit working for them 3 months ago. I don't know if I'll even drive a truck again. you can't make the kind of money you think you will, and even if you did, what's the point? you'll never be at home to enjoy it!

 

I was just looking over my old pay stubs - last year, most of my checks were between 1600-1800 miles a week. I had quite a few around 1200 miles, and a few that were over 2000. I had a couple 2500 mile weeks and ONE 2700 mile. under NO circumstance whatsoever will you EVER get 3000 miles in a week running regional (home weekends.) you simply cannot drive 600 miles a day (that's 12 hours average) 5 days a week, PLUS load and unload every day. even at 6 days, 500 miles a day is not likely if you deliver and pick up a new load every day.

There training is 6 weeks at $300 a week.
true
They start at $.32 a mile.
true
Average miles a week is 2500-3000
not even close - you'll average 1200-1800 .... find an OTR gig if you're looking for 2500+ miles a week
Home on weekends(May not be the whole weekend but at least the 34 hours) true
They no longer pay tuition.
they also don't pay detention, or a company match on the 401k
30 day after training Spouse can ride with you.
or anyone over 12
You can take the truck home.
if you live further than 50 miles from a terminal

 

Do you know anything about Boyd Bros , McElroy , Melton , or Watkins Shepard? Or any comments on JB Hunt?

 

don't know anything about those companies. I'm heading out now to put in some apps for some smaller van companies. at your age, unless you're a body builder/fitness buff, you might want to think a little more about whether or not you want to do flatbed. most flatbed drivers are in their 20s and 30s. it was said somewhere else on here that flatbedding is a young man's job. I would tend to agree - and I'm only 32!

 

I did flatbed for 3 years, starting at the age of 47, and I was a far cry from being a body builder/fitness buff. Never bothered me. You just have to work smart and be careful. I'm going back to it very soon.

Wouldn't go back to driving a van unless I absolutely had to. And van usually pays less per mile than flat, for equal experience time.

From what drivers have told me, flatbedders tend to get home more often, which, yes, can effect your weekly miles.

 

flat bed companies which haul construction materials will generally get you home on weekends, because most of the types of places they pick up/deliever to don't work on saturday or sunday. but there are flatbed companies that do long haul just as van companies do. when I worked for CT, there were 2 guys in their late 50s that worked there. one of them was a trainer and said he was getting too old to get out and wrestle with those tarps. the other guy loved it and said he wouldn't want to do anything else. I guess if you took a small enough sample, you could say that flatbedding is OK for people of any age. but most of the guys I saw (at my terminal and elsewhere) were younger.

but as far as CT specifically - if you're trying to figure out who to work for - if you want to make more than $500 a week on a regular basis, look elsewhere.