Conway driver apprentice program ?

you still with good old con dash way?

 

Some of my friends who work at CWF said its gotten slow and bad. The ones who got senority are doing ok but the lower guys with less, not even on the flex are hurting a little bit. Ive heard that the economy is starting to pick up slightly again and notice a lot more trucks on the roads again so thats a good sign. We got a little slower at YRC but due to we are a little understaffed for drivers we are still all working, hence why they wont hire any more, even though 75% of the time we can use at least 3 or 4 more drivers

Honestly you can make a decent living in trucking. Its an industry thats always going to be around. I wanted to get into the equipment operators union to operate machines but with less construction I put it off since im worried about being laid off for a while. The best trucking industry to get into would be tanker for gas/diese/oil/jet fuel, since people will always need that, and the waste industry since garbage will always needed to be taken away. Even doing reefer would be good due to people will always need to buy food.

I honestly enjoy the LTL business even though it can get slow, but i think its the way to go.

 

Its picking up..spring time is coming up. busy time is at hand

 

though the LTL business gets me irate sometimes, im gonna stick with them. Those suckers can have that OTR 20cent a mile garbage

 

Yes it does get very stressful, especially P/D in the Bronx lol. Im going to stick it out as well. Everyone thinks the OTR guys make a lot of money when we make a LOT more. I also enjoy being in my own bed everynight too. LTL in the beginning is rough, but later on once you put your time in the the best way

 

Not to hi-jack this thread, but can someone explain to me what some of these terms mean; Line-Haul, Truckload, LTL, P/D. Yes, I'm new to the industry ( Oh, you couldn't tell ? ). I thought that there was only OTR, Regional, and Local drivers. I'm guessing that some of these descriptions mean the same things ? Thanks to all in advance !

 

Ill do the best I can dslfish

linehaul is the movement of freight between cities on a specific schedule. Usually at night. this is when you see the guys usually pulling doubles on the highway to another big city to drop off and pick up freight heading back to their home terminal.

P/D: Pick up and delivery. Kinda like UPS or fedex. this is the freight that the linehaul guys bring back from their night runs for delivery to customers during the day, and the freight the guys pick up during the day, the linehaul guys bring it to another city so those guys can deliver it.

Truckload: Is usually one customers product on one trailer

LTL: less than truckload. this is where we combine shipments from multiple shippers on a trailer usually a pup(28ft trailer). Usually the shipment is only one pallet per shipper. that one shipment will not fill the entire trailer, so its combined with other shippers product to fill the trailer, usually.


Hope this helps a bit. Other guys may have better/clearer definitions

 

haha its all good, we were there at one point.

Line-Haul - pulling trailers from terminal to terminal or hubs. They usually work at night and do a lot of highway driving. Most companis pay you by the mile for this and you can make a lot of money

Truckload - its when the whole trailer is going to one stop right after the driver makes the pickup. this is usually OTR and the freight wont be taken off until it reaches its destination, like i said before 90% of the time the driver is OTR and takes it there himself.

LTL - less the load. These are companies like con-way, YRC, ABF, UPSF, Old dominion, duie pyle, estes express. These are usually the companies that deliver small deliveries to the customers, and the trailers will have multiple stops. I did 13 today, 10 deliveries and 3 pickups. So if you ship 3 pallets it will go back to the terminal where the driver is out of, and will go to its destination by going through different hubs. Also LTL competes with parcel deliveries, and can do residential as well. usually this is local

P/D - Pick up and delivery. Thats says it right there

I tried my best explaining for you to understand and hope this helps