I am fired from CR England before I even began

I bring home that after taxes for a week and work Sunday through Wed.night or Thursday morning.Usually 2 nights of that i'm home too.
There are jobs like that out there but you have to look real hard for them.

Even when we have really slow weeks the least i brought home was about 750 for 3 to 4 days of short runs.

It took me over a year to find this gig.
They are out there just keep trying!

I also know a couple guys driving for a grocery store chain,all they do is bump docks.4 day work week,home every day and some of those guys make up to 1500 a week.
Still trying to get my foot in the door there but it is rare that they hire because nobody ever quits there.

 

Yeah, there are a few of them that pay good. My last real job before my Dance with Cancer in 2008 I posted my W-2 of $74K+ for 2007!

That included me being home EVERY Thursday and Friday then be back to drop and hook for another 5-7 drops around NYC that took 2 days! It was a dedicated Rogers, Ar (Tyson) to NYC, a once a week load. I was making $.41 a mile (I at the time was coming up on 31 years experience!) plus all the added benefits for crossing a bridge and hitting docks and even touching a couple of cases for more money! I loved the $25, $35, $45, $55 for the drops and then the $.10 a case for the drops that I "Had" to breakdown! Yeah, That 1 load a month where they got the whole trailer that had usually 17,000+- cases! All I had to do was break down 3 or 4 pallets for that nice little addition to my pay check! Sometimes just 1 tie off of 1,2 or 3 pallets!!

Those jobs are few and far between. It doesn't take much more than 3rd grade math to figure out what you'll be making when you call any out of work used car sales person posing as a recruiter!

When you do call a recruiter have your calculator next to you unless you are good at math and when ones says $.27- a mile hang up as that's 1990 rates! When they start saying numbers with a 3 in front and the second number is above a 5 then they are almost talking fair wages BUT listen to the miles a week they tell you! This is where the calculator comes in handy! OR do a chart for yourself. Start with 25 in one column and miles in the rows and go up to say 40. and you are ready to talk turkey with the recruiter!

As to those miles talked about and how you are paid.

Hub miles died years ago when drivers padding their pay would drive out of route and some of those OOR miles were doozies! We had one driver making large pay check but he was also late most of his time at the comp[any! it turned out he would be going 2-5 hundred miles OOR to see some sweetie in some far away town for some horizontal beep boop fun! Drivers screwed themselves by screwing their boss who was being fair to his employees. Lets remember truck drivers ARE their own worst enemies. We have watched many screw up and screw the rest of us out of pay just because they could do it!

Household movers guide was the standard as mentioned above for calculating pay and rates. Then came the computer and routing programs with the practical/short miles button! Any of us that were able to buy these or get a bootleg copy soon realized that there was a flaw in them when it came to doing that ripoff short miles side. The time was way off! Yeah PC Miler did a great job with the short miles BUT it or the others failed in calculating the time because they didn't count stop signs. traffic lights, the amount of congestion on the 2 lane roads or how many farmers are driving their equipment to get to a field down the road and the blue hairs that 30 MPH was like light speed to them!

Want to get that BFI you drive for to start routing you on a practical route and stop screwing you because you know that going that short route will make you late for your appointment so you voluntarily lose money by not going those routes. They darn sure are not screaming at you or writing you up are they? OH HELLO NO they aren't because they KNOW they are getting something for nothing!

STOP going out of route when BFI routes you short miles! DRIVE those routes and waste fuel which that idiot college genus in the office didn't think of because of all the stops and starts and slow ups. Drive AT the speed limits, stay at the proper following distances so you get stopped at more red lights, and when you finally get to your appointment time and are late it's not your fault! You did what the idiots think is best and not practical in a real world! The loss of a good fuel mileage and the loss of those 15 minute lines in the log book that college boy still has no idea about and maybe a fine for being late to the company and all you have to do is point at the route they sent you on and guess what they are going to ask you? If there is a satillite system they have all the proof that you drove the routethey paid you for and they can see how long it actually takes and not that happy meal time it says it should take!

Now if they start the interrogation of why here are the answers!

Why didn't you take the interstate?
You ask them, Are you going to PAY me to go out of route?
They say NO!

Then you have a great choice in your answer!
Until you pay me for the work I do then I'll take that short route you sent me! Pay me for what I do not what you pay me for you to save you money!

Yeah we know they will fire you but tell them to put on the unemployment application the truth and not some lie or you will help them to lose a little of that money by having to use their lawyer when you sue them!

All of you do this and pay will get where it should be! FAIR!

As to a percentage pay..... If they do not show you the contract or the rate sheet that was faxed or emailed to them, how do you know you're getting that 25%? 25% of what you have no clue of is like 25% of nothing or some number pulled out of a hat! Also is that 25% equal to a fair CPM? When you see the route and miles does it come out to $.40 CPM or $.25 CPM? If percentage pay does not come out equal you're getting bent! They know it because you don't know it!

 

Yeah so people are gullible and they know theirs a need for truck drivers

You didn't know how much you were gun make b 4 you started driving

So when you gett time in the field you learn more than anyone can tell you

 

Yeah I concur, I have only drove for them 2 so I don't. Know how great I had it.

Or as many say how terrible I have it hahahaha

Lifes been great too me so is the ride

Its all relative too what your needs are

And then what you want

I do want alot butt have ended up needing very little here

 

Never been too, been thru all boroughs had a few deliveries on the LI

AND ONE IN PORT CHESTER,AND A BUNCH IN THE NEWARK,JERSEY CITY AREA

 

Sounds like a song from Bob Seeger: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTpCAXanVc[/ame]

 

People are gullible they don't know there is LESS need for truck drivers . Why is it people can't figure out when plants close the truck drivers supplying raw materials and delivering the finished product also lose jobs ? How can people sit at railroad crossings watching hundreds of megacarrier containers roll by on rail cars and not figure how many OTR jobs are eliminated by carriers going more intermodal ?
People start a job without asking what the pay is ? Yes they are gullible if they accept recruiters saying drivers make $40,000 a year . What drivers ? Not newbies getting 1,000 miles a week at $.26 a mile .

 

Intermodals have been around in some form for more than 30 years, trains hauling consumer goods have been around since the 1800's, BUT, back in those days,, they used wagons to transport from the trains,, now they use trucks.

The trucking industry will always be in need of drivers,as long as there is a need for products to be transported.

 

I almost made 42,000 my fisrt year @ .34 a mile

And the next 2 yrs. I made less @ .41 cus of medical leave and breakdowns

Hell this yr. I made almost 48,000 and had a ####load of time off
worked well under 300 and more than 250 days in 2011

Didn't have no medical leave tho that yr. So it made a huge difference

 

People don't think until it directly involves

Them and their paychecks

Then the ol wheel getts 2 spinnin in the mpty dome ontop of
there shoulders