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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Trashtrucker1265, post: 2824491, member: 36361&quot;]Don&#039;t know where in GA you are, but I worked for Pritchett Trucking as a company driver for nearly 4 years, and for the last 2 I was hauling fuel wood to RockTenn in Panama City, and GP in Cedar Springs.&nbsp; The pay as a company driver was low, and I don&#039;t think Pritchett was making a ton either but that&#039;s their bread and butter and they have enough trucks on it where they can still make their money, and we as company drivers still did okay.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are my observations from the course of the 2 years I hauled them:</p><p>1.Get as much weight as you can, you&#039;re typically paid by the ton.</p><p>2.Expect mill restrictions, whether it be fuel wood or clean chips, they only need so much of it and will shut down hauling in a moments notice.</p><p>3.Expect to wait in ridiculously long lines, I have sat in Cedar Springs from 1am until 5am on more than one occasion.</p><p>4.Expect to run early hours, I was on the road between midnight and 2am.</p><p>5.Expect to work long hours, the rates of wood by-product in the south are notoriously low so you have to run a bunch to make a decent wage.</p><p>6.Some places tip your loads, some expect you to walk it off.&nbsp; Live bottom is the norm for this job.</p><p>7.Last but not least, get a CB pushing atleast 500 watts so when you&#039;re sitting behind 20 fuel wood trucks at RockTenn, everyone in the panhandle can hear you BS&#039;ing with all of your logging buddies!</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and don&#039;t piss off the scale house lady, she can make your life a living hell.........GET TO THE BACK OF THE LINE![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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