I Start With Averitt in January 2012

Anybody done the petsmart in Ennis? Multiple stops, I can't get to my truck until tomorrow. I need some intel.


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I went there to drop a load last summer with another company. If you are picking up from there, it will most likely be a multistop load.

 

LTL is the place to be with these guys. Hourly pay, home every night, off weekends, off holidays with pay, treated like a king if you can produce good numbers. I lucked into a cushy gig hauling 2 loads a day of assembled tires and rims on racks for Toyota and then taking an empty trailer out for LTL pick-ups. I average 12 hours a day Monday through Friday. I occaisionally volunteer for a shuttle run on the weekends when I look on the list and see they need somebody, but have never been asked to work on a weekend by anybody. I will NEVER go back to truckload again.

 

Indeed it is.


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Dang I was at HOU this morning for fuel. Sitting in port Arthur waiting on a load. My dang TV antenna took a limb hit and broke of about 4". I couldn't get a signal so I got a new one from the shop. Still can't get anything in port Arthur. I dunno what it could be now.

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While I say some of that is true I will promise you not every LTL job at averitt is the same. You were lucky to have a factory like toyota near you. Where I work we are combo drivers...We break all inbound loads and load our own trailers then we run our own route normally 18-20 stops while picking up freight normally 4-10 pickups then we come back. If you worked in bound you go home if you didn't you work out bound and unload all trailers for the shuttle drivers. Once your done with that you sweep the dock, trailers and empty trash. When were slow and your sitting around you go out and sweep the pads and pick up trash around the building. We have one dock guy that is part-time and he can load up 3-5 trailers around 2 hours. We aren't a large facility like houston is so we don't have dedicated dock guys, drivers and shuttle. Everyone is expected to come in and do what has to be done to make our facility survive and not shut down. LTL is all about senority. Your the first one to get to go home if you want to and the bottom guys fix the mistakes the veterans makes. That sucks but like I was told that the way it is. That's why I decided to switch to TL. I don't care how long you've been with the company but I won't get treated like a slave because the top guys are to lazy to fix their own mistakes.

People has said oh you will miss your family and you won't get to see them when you go to truckload....Well I disagree because when i was in LTL I worked really late and was back in waiting for the clock to hit the right time so my 10 hour was shown. There were times when I only got a 6 hour break but they would "fix" the time later to show I had a break or they wouldn't let me clock in.
The only way I'll come back into LTL is for a linehaul position.

Well I leave tomorrow to head to cookeville for qualcomm day in truckload.

 

Cory, your a good dude and i hope they treat you right . I left again because couldnt make it on 1800-2000 miles , b arely making 500.00 a week wont support our household , ate up some savings quick !! stay in touch my friend

 

Where did you go now?

 

Im going to do plumbing work for the time being ,not sure what direction to go driving wise.