Life changing event coming this week. ELD time.

I have a guaranteed salary of 850 weekly if I work 5 days, no matter how many miles I drive. Then I receive an additional .26 per mile that I drive. An extra 100 per week for being on time every day for my first load, an extra 154 in salary for a Saturday or a Sunday, on top of my miles and another 100 per day for having a flexible schedule. That's on top of 100% company paid benefits, PTO and 100% 401k match up to 100% of my salary. They match Dollar for dollar every penny I set aside for retirement. I have all the planners, company owner and my terminal managers personal cell phone numbers and I can call any one of them 24/7 and they answer, call me by name without me having to even tell them who is calling. And that's within a week of being hired. My first day didn't take 15 hours. It took 13 hours to drive 10 hours, load and unload twice(and I have no clue what I'm even doing yet) take a sample of what it was we were hauling, and he back on the yard.

People are genuinely cool where I work. The terminal manager was driving around the yard earlier this morning when I was doing my post trip inspection and my trainer gave him the one finger salute, which he gave back, smiling.

They have a zero percent turnover for the last 6 months. I'm home daily, I'm paid weekly.

Truly, first world problems. Hell, if it snows or there's ice on the ground, I still get paid to ride the couch.

Also we are paid by the hub mile. The trainer and I had to do a spread and the directions we got were 1/4 mile north of business 287, west of I35, on 644... no address... it's an overpass. Took quite a bit of circling to actually find it, maybe 30 miles in total because the location was off by a mile. They didn't pay us zip code to zipcode, they didn't pay us for a straight line from A-B... they paid us based on the number of miles from when we started the day until we finished the day.

And yea, our HOS means that if one so chooses, they can take a nap or a shower or eat or rub one out... and still drive 12 hours in a day. Or they can simply work 10 hours and go home with their guarantee plus whatever miles they managed in 10 hours.

Oh and the trucks aren't governed. The only negatives are a drive cam and a no cell phone even with Bluetooth 1 strike policy. I set off my drive cam exactly once in 6 months with Swift. It's honestly not a problem for me at all, especially knowing that the people reviewing it are cool as #### and aren't looking to fire anyone.

 

The regrets will come when the ELOG emails violations and your bank account is set up for direct payment or your license will be suspended until payment made. That will be the future of ELOGS. A cash cow! Previously a sharp pencil took care of those extra minutes to get to destination. Now it will be a cut and dry violation, 1 minute over = $328 fine
Be a cold day in hell before I shut down for 8 hours when only 30 minutes from home because of HOS or worse yet a reset a few hours from home