Just registered to get my CDL!!! What next??? What do you recommend???

Watkins Shepard? Their not that small. They are fairly well known, decent size and speacialize mostly in LTL. I know who they are. Do you have to load/unload?

 

Yes I do and I make a TON of money doing it, some weeks I make more in stop pay then I do in Miles, I had a 1200 mile run with 16 stops at $20/per stop and .25cpm in 3 days.....=$620 in 3 days Cha Ching

not small!

Swift-16,000+/- Trucks
Watkins Shepard- 750 +/- Trucks




American Trucker

 

Not bad, but there lies one problem I have. I don't touch freight. If I wanted to load/unload trucks I would have just became a lumper instead of a driver. That's what they are hired to do.

Your compairing apples to oranges using swift as a size number. Everyone know's they are the biggest company. I was talking about the other big, well known companies around such as FFE with 1500 trucks+/-.

I've done LTL with FFE but I didn't like it and the pay still wasn't all that great. Now it may be different in your case sense it's dry van and not reefer.

 

I would not call 750 small, but not large either. Just your average well known medium size carrier. I have heard that guys like it over there, but I am not the LTL kinda guy. I also like the idea of No Touch. Nice to see that they are paying you decent for stops though.

 

Yea, when we think small we think more around under the 200 mark.

 

I hate doing the LTL stuff too but it pays good and not all our stuff is LTL and I'm out here to make money, I'd rather get paid $20 to lump freight for 30min-hour rather then sit there for 4 hours waiting for them to unload it and not get paid for all that waiting.




American Trucker

 

Yup and that cheap labor is why everyone is #####in'. Companies pay drivers little for driver unload but lumpers get paid out the ### to unload their own product. Go figure.

Than again it's all about what you gross each year, not what you net. After my checks get hit with tax's, SS, and all the other normal BS on top of insurance which I have to have because of my daughter plus atleast $20 extra held out each week just incase my tax's get screwed up and end up having to pay in then I know it's there to cover it.

 

how is $20 cheap? most of my stops are 5 pieces or less sounds like a good deal to me....


American Trucker

 

Because as I can remember Prime paid $.03 a case no matter what the weight or size and FFE only paid $1.25 per 1K lbs only goes by what's on the shipping paper's accurate or not. $20 per stop is decent we only got around $15 if memory serves me.