Melton, Whatcher 20

Sitting in Florence, KY picking up in the am for Laredo.

 

Dropped the load of rolled roofing a day early. Now sitting in the Flying J, I-45 ext 64 in Houston. Pick up steel in the morning at the Port of Houston for delivery on Monday in Webb City, MO. Don't need it, but looks I will get a 34 restart out of it. Recommendations for entertainment in the Joplin area?

 

I recommend not getting to Port of Houston to early. I showed up 2 hrs early and sat till 30 mins after appt while they "pulled" the order. You could always stay at a casino in Oklahoma. Other then that I heard the J was hit by the tornados going through there last week. I don't if it is true but I stay at the Petro anyways.

 

Picked up rod in coils. I guess slinky but it's shot gun and wrapped in a bunch of plastic. At the Petro in North Little Rock.

 

how much average paid per mile and weekly for the new drivers in Melton?

 

They pay you $70 a day while in training. You start at .33 cents a mile and get a .03 raise every 3 months till you hit .42 cents at one year. There is a fuel bonus which is up to .04 cents a mile. Canadian loads and hazmat loads add .04 cents each per mile to your pay. Oversize is .08 cents per mile added to your pay.

Triletter is a driver recruiter if I am wrong on the .04 and .08 cents, please correct me. They also pay $40 to tarp and untarp a load.

 

I thought it was $.3 for Canada and haz unless they changed it. I'm a road recruiter as well and that's in the info they gave us to distribute.

 

thanks Army91W

 

I don't do either. I was going off memory.

Austin was Austin today but made it home with 11 minutes on my 11.