Indian River

I feel you. If like to be there too at least. Might return to oilfield after new year's if it picks back up... Otr doesn't pay much.. at least to me... I never net 1k weekly back to back...

 

Yea i tried doing local at Pepsi. It was rough to say the least. Yea being home and exhausted really lowers the quality of time lol... I'm hoping for Trump to get the ball rolling in the right direction... I'd love to be making 1500+ a week (gross)

 

A Driver friend just went to orientation, he said new trucks are automatics, pay is 1-250 miles =24% 251-400 miles =.47cpm loaded, .41 empty, everything else is .41 loaded and empty.

 

IRT or any milk hauling outfit, be prepared to sit, sit and sit;. If you love to spend your time at dairies, then milk hauling if exactly what you are looking for.

 

I don't mind sitting as long as I get $15-20 per hour or 75+ per day of layover.. if not I do mind it.

 

I will tell you what you will get, $0.00. Ask any IRT driver. Some milk haulers get around $8 or maybe $10 per hr after 3 or 4 hours. The response from the trucking company sounds like this, "well you got to take your 10 hr break anyway"

 

Let me warn you way ahead of time. And if you drive for IRT, you will probably wind up in Nashville, Tn at Dean's Butter Plant. You will have an appointment, appointments mean nothing! It is the order you go thru the gate. During the day, they receive milk, at night they take cream. They are supposed to start on the cream around 7pm, I have been there when they are still pumping milk at 11pm. I have been the #1 cream truck and did not get out there until midnite. I have seen cream trucks held over until the next day because they quit pumping cream and start washing the lines and silos, getting ready for the milk trucks. I hate the #### place.

I sit at Murray, Ky with a load of cream over 33 hours one trip, because the silos were full and I fell in line about #10.
Two Christmases ago, I sit in Glasgow, Ky 24 hrs. They were full when I arrived and I was #13 in line. When I left 24 hours later, there were 23 trucks still there trying to get unloaded.

Welcome to the world of milk hauling.

 

Dang, I am glad I didn't go through with the application for irt then lol... It would drive me crazy... All that wait and no pay? Im sure those places don't smell the greatest either plus all the flies??? And no pay??? Why do you guys still do it?