Higher pay for Florida loads FEMA pay?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Lennythedriver, Oct 4, 2022.

  1. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    They’d have to pay me by the hour to drive and sit for hours and try to figure out which roads were open etc

    no way I’d do it for per mile pay unless it was double the rate it was week before last .

    you’re gonna be sitting for hours
    Maybe days .
    And if the fed gov is actually involved , it’s definitely gonna be a cluster , the govt can’t even synchronize traffic lights and patch potholes in normal times .

    and remember FEMA used to be run by a person who’s previous job was judging horse shows , and had zero zero experience with emergency response .

    and I doubt much has changed since all appointed federal jobs are just handed out as political favors to incompetent morons .
     
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  3. Midwest Trucker

    Midwest Trucker Road Train Member

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    I should have been more specific. Tampa outbound to Midwest.
     
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  4. Lennythedriver

    Lennythedriver Road Train Member

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    Because I wasn’t arguing or demanding if I should get paid more. A company driver I ran into said he was, so I was asking. I’m well aware of the concept of “skin in the game” versus none. Read my other message on this thread.

    Also found out, most the other drivers here are refusing Tampa loads etc. they didn’t ask me, just dumped back to back loads on me down there. It’s a mess down there, I don’t recommend.

    And adding this…indirectly company drivers do feel the pain of the industry downward turns. Less consistent loads, more downtime, more broken equipment, less bonuses, less miles, etc etc. when a company is getting less? So do it’s drivers. So your concept is null and void at the end of the day. The driver ALWAYS ultimately pays in the end. Time is money my friend. My time has value just like eveyone else’s. Get it?
     
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  5. sbaumann14

    sbaumann14 Road Train Member

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    I’d rather take a bath with a toaster than run another FEMA load with my RGN.
     
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  6. Lennythedriver

    Lennythedriver Road Train Member

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    The biggest issue is parking down that entire stretch, not much parking to begin with, but with all the loads running down that way EVERYTHING is packed full
     
  7. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I did Fema for Landstar twice in '05 and again in '08. Second load in '05 was on Hurricane Wilma in Florida. Picked a trailer loaded with gallon jugs of water in Louisiana, went to Jacksonville NAS and staged there. Then to a park in Opa Locka. Had a bunch of US Xpress trucks there sub-hauling for LS. Their company drivers were getting only $100 a day and no one told them to stock up on food. So we kept letting them move ahead of us and ended up in that park for 6 days. Then delivered and went up to the Flying J in Ft Pierce. Looked like a Landstar terminal there. Sat there 13 days collecting that day rate. Day rate was @$675 a day to the truck. And the only fuel we had to buy the whole time was at the end at the J. Everywhere else a fuel truck came around and topped our tanks off.
     
  8. Magoo1968

    Magoo1968 Road Train Member

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    Make sure you verify that they at least pay you minimum the miles you actually drove and not the PC miler miles . Your losing enough as it is time wise.
     
  9. Eddiec

    Eddiec Road Train Member

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    Fact Check -
    Deanne Criswell
     
  10. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    Odd
    That she seems to be qualified .
    With this administration your skin color and gender identity mean far more than your work Experience ,
     
  11. loudtom

    loudtom Road Train Member

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    How is that any different than the last administration, or any of the previous ones? If it's really an issue, at least be consistent with the criticism.
     
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