My time with Hirschbach

Its been a very eye opening journey. I walked into this deal looking at it like it's ONLY A LEASE. Money hasn't been horrible but it hasn't been great either. My recruiter was pretty upfront with me- (Lacey).
Your fixed expenses each week are 880. Then add on fuel, maint program, lease incentive, etc. Usually looking at a weekly average of 1800-1900 expenses. Expect compensation to be around 3,000 weekly. So you walk away with 1K a week being a glorified company driver on the lease program stuck doing 64. You can get bumped up to 68, if you go onto a fuel surcharge- but in all honesty, for the way this program is set up- you can't make it by doing that unless you run 2450 miles or more weekly or are a team. Hirschbach has also gotten rid of the percentage pay and no longer accepting owner operators. We are at a hiring freeze with the exception of dedicated out of Smithfield ( greenfield Indiana) where I've sat on average 34 hours and wasn't paid a dime until after 24 hours( lay over pay). Have to fight for every penny unless you have a great DM.

I'm on my 3rd DM who is actually on top of #### and the best DM I've had.
So, to pay rates- its based on a mileage rate.

1-20= 2.62
21-75= 1.77
76-150= 1.62
151-275= 1.47
276-425= 1.22
426-600= 1.12
601-800= 1.05
891-1000= 1.02
1001-1200= .97
1201-1800= .90
1800+= .86

2nd stop= 50
3rd + stop= 100 each stop.

They do give you your routing and fuel. Choose not to agree to it, you might get fined for extra out of route mileage or extra fuel. Fuel then jumps from 99 cents a gallon to 1.24 a gallon. 50 gallons are allotted as an emergency fund. As for routing , company pays tolls and all that crap but if your out of route they charge you for it.
I'll list out my paychecks in a comment.

 

I had a lot of issues with the my prostar so Hirschbach ordered 30 Petes and I was able to get one. Not too bad.

 

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Okay like I promised:
Week 1 1,358
Week 2 3,065.11
Week 3. 803.54
Week 4. -392.45 (missed payroll deadline- bills were in the truck while truck was in the shop getting repairs- oops)
Week 5 1,683.16
Week 6. 1,399.70
Week 7. 284.54
Week 8. 817.88
Week 9. 516.84
Week 10. 372.09
Week 11. 2,249.82
Week 12. -779.70 (payroll issues with receiving paperwork)

Average weekly 948.21

Weeks 7,8,9, and 10 I was dealing with family emergency and was in and out of the hospital. Worked just enough to pay for the truck. During week 7, early in the week my fiancé was hospitalized fighting to stop labor at 33 weeks. Week 8, my son was born while the fiancé was at 34 weeks pregnant so that was high stress. Weeks 8 and 9 I ran hard as quick as I could so I could return to the hospital to spend time with my fiancé and son who was in Nicu or however you spell that. Basically intensive care for babies born premature. Week 10- I went back out over the road again with a new DM.

However, I want to thank Hirschbach for allowing me to run a partial week and just enough make the truck payments and getting me back to the hospital for 3 weeks straight. They gave me a load from Indianapolis to New York and deadheaded me back to get me back to the hospital. I don't know how many companies actually would do that.

 

He is finally home and all is well. I'm back to running again. Just for this new truck just over a week ago, so things are looking a bit better but still having issues that I'm working to get resolved at Hirschbach.