Melton Truck Lines...Your opinion? Advice?

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Before I even start... because I'm feeling generous and actually drive for them... and you sound rather... put together with said questions...

Where do you call home base and how often would you like to see that front door?

 

Wifey bunny. Keep in mind that current drivers might not want to post stuff that will be seen by the company snoops. It’s a real risk to your career. Good luck. i am actually amazed you got those pay quotes. Must be new raised pay that I wasn’t aware.

 

There was something in the pipeline when I first started here about them allowing drivers who lived in a certain area to change their home address for hometime. Pretty sure it excluded Florida though.

We're stuck with 3 weeks out down here before we get to send our macro for home time.

 

@Boattlebot drove for them . I don't think he's still there though.

 

If the pay scale you originally posted is what he was offered.... nice.

I believe we start drivers with six months of experience at/around 0.43 to 0.45 a mile. This was before our recent 0.02 pay raise across the board... the senior driving rumor mill is going around that we're all gonna be getting a major pay increase late 2018 but that's probably just the old hands trying to stir up the pot. I'll believe it when I see it.

He will get the hazmat bonus on hazmat loads only. It will only included his loaded miles and not any deadhead. Canada pay works the same way. That will put him around 0.52 with hazmat on the deck and 0.52 if he's Canada bound. I'm not even sure what our oversized pay is anymore, I see those loads so infrequently.

FYI, were paid zip/RandMcnally miles. It'll be about 10% less than the hub miles on any given run. I'm doing about 1375 miles on my current load -- including the deadhead to get it from my previous delivery -- Melton is paying me in the 1250 range. For some that's a deal breaker. Just so you're aware. I believe Stevens is on a similar system so it should be nothing new.

Being you live in Florida you'll see east coast a lot. Yes, you'll see the lower 48 if you stay here long enough but the absolute vast majority of our freight is on and east of the I35 corridor. This includes New York City. I've spent A LOT of time in the Washington DC and Baltimore area. They'll pay extra for dealing with NYC and if you deliver metro D.C/Boston etc you'll receive some extra cash. I believe it's in the $25/35 range.

Being you ride with him, and pending you may have a pet?, you'll lose out on some freight from steel mills. US Steel and Alcoa come to mind immediately but I'm sure there's plenty of others -- with that being said we have a whole pile of drivers with pets and SO's who ride along and none complain about missing out on miles or runs.

As far as flatbedding goes... that's a pretty personal thing, honestly. He's gonna love it or hate it. It WILL take him time to become comfortable with it. Especially since he might not go out with a trainer and I honestly don't think the 4-day orientation is enough due to the "quality" I've seen them spit out.

Miles average? Jeez, somewhere in the ballpark of 2400-3600 is company average (I'm guessing). You're gonna have weeks that are on the high end and even in the low 4000s, and weeks that's are significantly less. Flatbed frieght is affected by the seasons, more than any other sector in this industry, and it'll show in the winter time.

Thats all I got for now...
Not afraid to answer any specifics you might have but a recruiter could definitely get you a solid factual answer.