Indian River

They do. Cant remember what is though.

 

There's a company in Missouri called shrock. They still pay in the low 30 cpm range for drivers with 2 years experience. You get 34 cpm each if you are a team.

 

That's crazy

 

That's freaking crazy!! I bet the turnover rate is higher than Mt. FUJI LOL!!!

 

Imagine running 3000 miles to just gross 900$

 

Right...

 

If they would give me 55cpm, I would've gone with them, like I said, I've been wanting to go with them since before I got my CDL, so from 56CPM to 48CPM just doesn't make any sense... that's a bummer.

 

Well after my second year with the river I'll be turning in my keys and onto my new chapter after accepting an offer with Love's running local. It's been a wild ride with IRT. Ran abit of everything from loading at the dairys, training new students, otr, pump truck, ports but no border crossings. IRT afforded me a lot of different opportunities and I'll leave with a relatively overall positive experience.

There's different routes for different types of people. While I did clear 6 figures at IRT that doesn't go without saying I run like at retarded hours, take on all the favors dispatch needed, never turned down a load and I've ran in some stupid weather. (Driver choice, not forced ish) The amount of miles I ran didn't come over night either I built a lot of good bonds and relationships at the company. There's been great weeks and weeks of wtf am I doing with my life. I've had 6000 mile weeks on the milk accounts and others sitting for days to get reloaded in California. But I've had 10x more weeks running 5000 miles than less than 2500. But that came with a lot of moments of wtf did I open my mouth. Everyone's system of running is different than every other driver out there. I've spoken to many drivers that said they aren't running miles, and often the case they've got stipulations of where they will or will not run, when they will or will not run. While that's perfectly fine I'm willing to do whatever others wouldn't so I stayed running and those preloads and crap stuff seemed to allow me to hit my goals. Alot of it is what you make it. There's still runs with the company you can make decent money, harder with the current pay rate and if you plan to have your family benefits rates. I'll say if your averaging less than 2500 miles a week here after a couple of months here its probably you. They aren't perfect but they aren't trash. They give a lot of leeway on things and don't expect them to hold your hand. They give a lot of freedoms with some drawbacks from time to time but generally within reason.

 

Good write up and good luck at your next gig!

 

Thanks for sharing bro, good luck on your new job!!