How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

I would have named them if I remembered just who they were. They were a small NC carrier to the best of my memory. Between oldfarts and this neurological problem my memory is shot! These days if not for keeping post-it notes all over the place I would forget to wake up every day!

 

I drove 3500 miles this week, over 67 hours of driving/on duty time. Trying to get my money up before the weather takes a turn towards winter.

 

My co-driver is leaving our team truck the first week of January after bids are reassigned. Everyone around the terminal is saying it's a bad move since freight volumes haven't quite recovered yet, but she'll take the risk. I'm staying on a team truck because sitting 1-2 days a week on wild board won't do. I have a couple potential new guys in the pipeline.

Also Old Dominion finally gave us a new truck!
Truck #2554360 with an X15 and Eaton 12 speed automated. Drives well enough, but definitely better than our old truck that had 700k+ mi on it

1000019586 by plynnjr92 posted Oct 1, 2023 at 5:13 AM

 

What's the pay scale like and odfl and what does the seniority thing look like? At Estes, team and linehaul is pretty much the same thing. Team guys can get off the truck and take a single bid back and forth IF they can be replaced.

You can't just hop on the team truck and just get off because you're mad or something tho.

 

Estes Express confirms cyberattack

 

I bet their firewall, and IT infrastructure is from the AOL era.

 

@jgarciajr40 question since when do aaa cooper runs in the st louis area? I was there last week and it threw me off seeing a AAA cooper team truck with a 53 going north bound on 55.