How's Everyone Doing in LTL Right Now?

Swift bought AAA cooper and Midwest Motor Express. The Midwest Motor Express terminal across from my terminal has AAA Cooper trucks parked in their lot every day.

 

With that tandem & the reefer units you were north 90000 # lbs.

 

The pay scale is 3 steps. First year you're at bottom rate, after 12 months you get a bump, after 24 months you're at top rate. All pay rates go up in tandem with each other every September for the yearly cost of living raise. Your pay rate is dependent on time with the company and the region you work in, as in California drivers make a higher wage than Mississippi drivers because higher cost of living.

SoCal drivers after 2 years currently top out at 82.88cpm linehaul, $37.10/hr city, and 90.08cpm team split. NorCal drivers in the Bay and Sacramento make an extra $0.50 an hour or half a cent per mile, but with the higher cost of living there it basically amounts to nothing.

Here at OD, teams and linehaul are basically the same but there is a dividing line that keeps drivers from hopping back and forth. Wild (or extra) board drivers can do as they please from both sides, but it's different for bids.

If you select a team bid in December for example, but you want to vacate that bid before the following December when the bidding period restarts, you go to the BOTTOM of the wild board and give up your right to select a bid for the upcoming year, regardless of your seniority level. If you were to leave your bid in March 2023, the penalty is becoming and staying a Wild driver until December 2024. The same is true if you vacate a solo linehaul bid early.

 

that terminal is barely a year old. It’s brand new. There’s another terminal in some off skirt town of Chicago as well.

they’re opening of north, and combing with MME. They’re aiming for 50-state direct service. Surprised swift/knight didn’t snatch those YRC properties. YRC has some nice properties in the suburbs that can’t ever be zoned again for commercial use.

 

Thank you for breaking this down. I had a buddy I actually call odfl since he left there to come to Estes and they gave him PTSD lol. I heard wild is now like day wild and night wild vs how I heard it used to be which was run out the 70, 34, and then back at it.

Any of those true? Like if you bid wild but on days, you'll just run wild in the mornings. Same for nights. Keep in mind these are things I heard.

 

I personally have no clue about the day/night wild thing and whether it's true or not. I just know my terminal stopped allowing wild drivers to travel to NorCal terminals like San Jose and Oakland to help their city operations. Leaves those terminals overwhelmed with work and our guys unable to earn per-diem and get a free hotel stay for the week they go

 

Sounds like more of that "saving money" everyone is doing