How much do yard jockeys make?

Anheuser - $20+/hr.

To reply to an Easter Day Jesus (resurrected) thread.

 

Whatever they make, it's not enough for the dude at the Amazon DC in Washington that I went to last night. He was doing like 45mph in reverse and hitting the exact spot every time. No pull-ups. He didn't even look where he was backing. Like a straight up Jedi. Was a thing of beauty. Imagine how quickly a fuel stop would be if everyone could back like that.

 

crappiejunkie claims to make $95,000 as a yard jockey

 

Pepsi is advertising at $23 per hour in Ohio...imagine the list of drivers is pretty long

 

This is not a driving experience job. Best you can hopeful is to show a year or two or more doing one employer to show you can keep a job. It's not difficult.

I did support a production building with one ford 9000 daycab and a group of 25 trailers to a shipping building half mile down the road. Count em 1, 2 3 and so on. Don't lose your count. It's relatively mindless and not difficult as the trailers go in docks in one move, wind down gear, unhook, go get the next one.

Pay? Eh... not much better than say 10 a hour at most in my time. I filled in when the previous regular hopped down from his dock one too many times and broke a leg. (Don't jump from the dock dummy! lol...)

That ford was a good little tractor. Turns like half the space needed by the sleeper trucks, which was good where I was.

 

Just before i went over to UPSF, i jockeyed for $26/hr, OT after 8 AND 40. The highest paying job(by the hour) i've ever had yet. Unfortunately, the plant shut down and i got laid off. So, here i am doing LTL.

Yes, one bad thing was with the cabover jockey---and no insulation, it was hotter than outside temp. The AC, when it was working, really didn't do much. So i carried a pail of water, which i would occasionally dump over my head. Really didn't have a choice.

Definitely plauseable---the top guy at the plant made OVER 95K! Of course, he "lived" at the plant........
i didn't make nearly that much, but i remember looking at my check and thinking, this is a lot of money considering the hours i worked----which wasn't a whole lot due to having low seniority.

Also, jockeying can and is hard work. As strenuous if not more than LTL; You are in and out of the truck constantly----opening and closing doors---and yes, container doors can and are a pain.....

i'll back up what Oscar said, and that it IS boring; All you see is the plant everyday, all day. The production line shuts down---so you sit for up to 2-3 hours and then all of a sudden, production starts "raining down" and then it's non-stop trailers for the next 4 hours---and they want their trailer NOW.


i think OTR along with truckload grocery is the easiest job in trucking.

 

I think you are mistaken about that, my friend. I make 20 an hour with a lot of overtime. Have a great day.

 

My job is paying $19 an hour for a night spotter with OT after 8. But it's only about 50 hours per week, not much opportunity to get more hours. That's why our last guy just quit. I make $1,200 a week working 45 hours running a route. So it's better just to run routes at my place.

 

Man 95,000 a year on the clock. You would have to avenge $30 a hour and 60 hours a week every week. I don't know about that one

 

I knew of a Jockey putting in 84 hours per week (six 14s). Even at $18 an hour with OT after 40, that's $1,900 per week. But yes, some life indeed.