How to deal with bad dispatch? My hellish experience vent.

Welcome to trucking industry. When you first start out it sucks and then as you learn and gain knowledge and wisdom it becomes the easiest job you have ever had. It’s the how many years in between can you handle ? ...I’m glad I stayed in it but I’ve been doing it for well over 20 years so go figure. Best of luck to you.

 

1 million thank you’s For this sir !!!!

 

After he finds a real trucking job, he'll worry about that. Meanwhile he needs income now.

 

If the OP works a CDL job and doesn't report his hours used for the side-hustle some he hits someone or someone hits him he will be crucified for falsifying his Hors of Service. He can be stopped at a traffic light and a drunk in a SUV runs into the back of his stopped truck, there will be a police investigation and the lawyers seeking payments will for the drunk will find out about the work at the side-hustle job. The OP might get away with hiding a second job or having that second job might cost him a lot of problems. We won't know until it happens. He may be better off just doing the side-hustle full-time until he can afford to drive at some bottom-feeder company.

 

Not all companies will run trainees as a team. Schneider doesn’t do it. There may be a trainee or two in the truck, but they each run half a day, and when the 14 is up, you are done. In practice, they don’t even run that hard.

 

A single person LLC won’t save any on taxes. You will still be taxed exactly like a sole proprietor. As a matter of fact, it is the same item on the W-4. The only tax savings you will see would be as a result of being able to take the per diem deduction along with all the rest of the schedule A items. You don’t need an LLC for that.

 

@Harvest --

Schneider veteran here....

My latest gig: hauling fuel (hazmat tanker) -- but NOT with Schneider.

As others have suggested above/earlier....I think it's pretty obvious that you will stay miserable as long as you remain in the 1099 world.

Stop dumpster-diving for work--and move up into the world of W-2 jobs.

Given the way things are going for you as described in this thread--you'd be a lot better off driving even for someone like Swift, or Schneider.

The following are a couple of job leads in Delaware, that are looking (as of the time of this writing) for drivers that fit your basic description:

Sysco -- home daily -- Cheswold, DE

and also...

Swift -- dedicated reefer -- Dover, DE

A bonus: the first one listed above will also help you a lot with your sleep issues (you'll be pretty tired at the end of each shift -- believe me ).

--Lual

 

Your first 7 words kind of sum it up dude, as the old saying goes "if it sounds to good to be true it probably isn't" companies promising you the world and not delivering goes with the industry unfortunately.