Is it true 50k to start??

Go local, my friend just got a job pushing small loads around the Twin Cities. I think the company is CCX and he is getting paid $24.50/hr. With a standard 40 hour work week that would be $50,960/yr and that is before any overtime. He also has great benefits and is in the Teamsters too.

OTR would be FUN (for the most part), but with the amount of hours its akin to making minimum wage and working your ### off. Not worth it and I respect anyone who does it. I WOULD do OTR if I were an O/O and could look at larger profit margins.

 

Swift is about the worst company out there. It all depends on what type of driving you are doing. If you are OTR and can get a lot of miles and burn the wheels off you can make good cash. You also need to look at PER DIEM which helps lower your gross wages and gets you better tax returns - or you keep more pay each week.

Honestly, I've heard of companies paying $250-$450/wk for TRAINING pay, but if that was a driver working his ### off... that is a load of crap. You will make more in trucking than you will slingin spades.

 

I can tell you when I first got into the trucking industry in 1990 I was making about $45k a year, then in Feb 2000 I got a job in the car haul section of the industry in the first year I made about $55k and that was when I first was learning to haul cars, last year I made $75k plus all the union benefits and this year so far I am at $42k year to date. So I would lean towards the car haul industry but you need to be in good physical shape and have nerves of steel this job takes a special talent that about 30% of the new hires make it.

 

Hey small block if you are looking for a job in Cottage Grove, Mn we have a terminal right there at the rail head, I worked out of there and was taking loads of cars to places like Minot, Bismark and Devils lake N.D. al load like that will pay you $600 all day for a company driver plus all the perks of the Teamsters, you do a couple of those for a week and you got a pay check

 

What would you say is the hardest part about it...damaging the cars? Climbing around while chaining?

 

Do you have to be somebody's brother or boyfriend to get on with the Teamsters?

 

yeah, its no secret where i work, i just choose not to tell anyone, the only reasson i posted is to let people no that 50k is possiable, with evey weekend off and all major holidays.
sorry i have not been on all week to post, but i dont pay for a wireless card, id rather save my money.

 

Sorry I am new on this site and do not have enough posts to im you so I will have to answer you here. When I said in good shape, hauling cars loading and unloading is very physically challenging you need good knees, back, shoulders, strength and physical stamina. While loading and unloading there is lots of climbing chaining and being agile enough to get in and out of small spaces. When I said nerves of steel, when you have to back up a F250 on the head rack in the element, rain, snow, ice uneven pavement and what everelse can be there and your tires break loose you have to have nerves of steel to handle the sitiuation and go off the truck. I hope that helps

 

The hardest part of the job would be just learning where to put the cars, driving or backing them on to get your height and weight right, it like a big jigs saw puzzle that you have to picture in your mind so when you put your next unit on the truck you have your chains in the right place and you work the truck not letting the truck work you

 

I will try to post some pics from this winter loading in Cottage Grove ,MN at a rail head with snow piled up and about 15 below zero, by the way I forgot to say about the extended time outside.