JB Hunt doesn't keep you out for weeks at a time, so you only need a bed and a little storage. If you look at Prime trucks, that's where you can scratch your head and wonder who the @&*$! would drive for them? They make you lease the truck, give you the smallest sleeper possible, and cut it down to 60 mph (so you can be a rolling road block...even though it's 'your' truck that you pay for). OK, truck size aside, I worked for JB for 6 years, one year on a dedicated Walmart account (was awesome), and 5 years intermodal out of Buffalo NY. I can tell you one thing, I didn't leave because I had any dissatisfaction. It is definitely one of the best 'mega' companies to work for. There were some things I didn't like or agree with, but that's to be said about ANY job at ANY company. They were good to me, paid VERY well ($1,200/wk average gross), good equipment, and good working environment. Most of the drivers work together (there are, as with any job, a few exceptions), and the work is there. JB has the most rail containers of anyone, over 200,000, the next largest runner up has 50,000. CSX, who of course is a railroad company and you see their ads on TV, has only 4,000 containers! So intermodal is the way to go if you can get it. The Philly area will be a gold mine as well, whatever account they run. One more thing, don't look at just CPM, which is pretty much all the brain-dead recruiters know about. You have to talk to another driver and even better, get the number of his fleet manager and he will tell you of all the 'activity pay' you get on top of the CPM. I was getting .37 CPM, but also $20 drop/hook, $40 live load/unload, $10 empty move, and $15 detention/breakdown pay. Now do the math, run 400 miles, 3 drops, a live load, and you're looking at $248 for one day. Yes, some days are less, some are more, but it's not just CPM, I don't know why the recruiters aren't given more info about the specific job, but I think it's because they have the company wide pay scale, based on experience, and are unaware of the specifics of the individual accounts. You'll definitely make more on intermodal or a dedicated account. A lot of those guys drive day cabs and are home every day (I worked Mon-Fri, home every day). joseph1135 said to not look at just CPM, but to also look at the miles you'll get. I don't know how Schneider pays, or if they have different pay scales for different accounts like JB does, but I'll agree with what he said but add to that to also check out the activity pay. You could run even less miles than you do now, yet make a lot more doing it.
