Danny Herman you're fired!

Thats what I'm talking about!

 

You have not read scam stories of lease o'os? You are in for a treat road to broke with lease we will read your nightmare story guaranteed make sure you memba me.

 

You probably think I be lying or trying to dissuade you. Not at all welcome to hell just a heads up on your future. You have two paths 1 you sign to a company who will lease you the truck and paint you a pretty picture. You will get milked hard and I mean hard for money and be like a hamster inside a wheel going nowhere. 2 you go on your own not knowing finding a good paying contract is more rare than winning the lottery 5 x's in a roll they are all paying poo. Reason being giant fleets have the big money contract for themselves. and thousands upon thousands of o'os are fighting for the scraps yes the scraps that pay the same as you would be a company driver in the end.

 

Sounds like every other OTR company these days with more than 50 or 100 trucks

 

I've been at Danny Herman Trucking for nearly 2 years, and the pay does seem kind of low!
But it seems it makes up for it. Most of my trips are from California to the upper midwest, 2000+ miles. There have been a few times it took forever to get loaded. The longest was 9 hours, then loaded, and no overnight parking kicked out at 1am. Lucky it was only 120 miles to one of our terminals in Lebanon, Tennessee. Ya, I was pissed, but I would say 95% of the time load and unload are under 2 hours. The El Paso yard is full most of the time. Many times I've run 650+ miles late at night thinking, "Oh, I will just park at the El Paso yard, and it's packed." I had to park in the wide street (some other trucks do also).
I've thought about switching to crete for better CPM, but there are no APUs, and I heard most of their trips are short.
The only company I see myself switching to is Wal-Mart since I do meet their requirements: 30+ months of current experience, perfect record, no tickets, and a 0 CSA score.

 

And all of these items in you list will magically disappear? Get the truck, arrange the lease, run a month, and compare your list with what you would list then.
Won't be much different.

 

Speak for yourself.

We run all dry van and we pay well over 55cpm maxed out.

If we sit more than 2 hours, we get 20 dollars an hour out to 8 hours, then it turns to a full 200 dollars per day layover.

Our trucks top out at 72-75 depending on how long youve been here.

I don't sit hours waiting for a load. Usually my next load is on my qualcomm before getting unloaded. Usually.

My paychecks are not consistent only because I go home so my hometime weeks suck. Last week my paycheck was almost $2100.

My company did just start the fuel solution thing, literally in the last few weeks. That kinda sucks.

We are about 60% D&H and that's going up by the month. Trailers are hard to get right now.

I don't have to sit to wait to be repaired for any other reason than mechanics are backed up with other work.

I'm given the option to take my 34 when I want to.

So no, what this guy experienced is not "par for the course."

 

Yeah what people need to keep in mind is that 51cpm is OK (just OK, not good) if you're consistently getting 3000+ mile weeks. The moment you aren't getting those mileages (usually due to no fault of your own) your paycheck quickly turns into a joke.
I worked for the company you speak of a few years ago. There were plenty of times when dispatch just couldn't get me the long runs. Plenty of times I had to wait for loads, and the main thing for my specific situation that turned me off: plenty of trips in and out of their shops to work on the same issue multiple times. Each time the problem supposedly was "resolved", so that I never really qualified for the minimum breakdown time to get paid, even though the hours added up over the course of the month.

My sense is that most otr companies really strive to get you 3000+ miles a month, no matter what their cpm is. Personally I think I'd rather make the same amount driving 2500 vs. 3000 miles. I just remember those long runs at DHT ended up feeling like a burden after a while, because their driver chair was uncomfortable. If they could bump the pay up by at least 7cpm, spec the trucks better for comfort and do better with their shops, I would seriously consider going back there as a first choice. What you say about the failure to pay detention sounds like a big step backwards. I never had that problem at least.
Edit: Maybe my memory's off right now. Part of me wants to say that they never even had a detention policy.