My Saia update

Jeeze that’s nice for the wallet for sure.

 

10-4. that's a lot of hours sitting in the cab of a truck.

 

It's also a lot of hours not humping freight or sitting at a grocery depot waiting for an unload.

 

And that's when I'd be moving on.

 

i think linehaul everywhere offers a little bit of unpaid work at one point or another. fact of the matter is, we still (i do linehaul, not at saia) earn more than 95% of other company drivers. all with very generous benefit packages and typically far better work environments.

you can't run at the first sight of such, the trade off is still well worth it vs other driving jobs.

 

Dont complain about the little bit of unpaid delay time. A couple weeks ago I sat in a dock for over 12hrs and only got paid $35 for it and theyre sending me back there weds morning unless things change

 

I sit every now and then on my Saia run but man they pay #### good.. I did all those drop and hooks for nothing working for Coca Cola.. Six drop and hooks a night on a run that paid a crappy flat rate but I had almost free health care under my union contract. lol! No thank you, once they froze our retirement I said goodbye.

 

easy money. hard job to get...and keep. takes a special person to successfully and safely run linehaul night in and night out.