My Western Experience

I'm still here I was just scolded by my bro amiller because I haven't posted in forever. I will do so tomorrow evening when I take a day off for the first time in a long time.

 

Pawoodsman I can't give you an exact number but the majority of the loads I've done have been drop and hook. I don't want to give you an exact number because the one week you get something different it'll seem like I lied to you and I don't lie. But I can give you my experience and let you draw your own conclusion. I average five loads a week and out of those five at least four of them are drop and hook. Now I have had weeks where three of the five were live load or unload but for the most part the majority are drop and hook. We run a lot of Walmart DCs Target DCs Home Depot DCs and water loads. The water loads are 80-20 maybe. Never know til you get there whether its preloaded or not. Hopefully this info helps you out.

 

Joe I can't answer your questions regarding flatbed because I drive van. But I can tell you that the flatbed division runs 48 and the van does east of the MS. Now as far as the pay goes, the company is on a sliding scale. <100-.75, 101-200-.55, 201-599-.34, and 600+ is your base pay that your recruiter told you that you'd be getting. At the end of the week they will tell you what you averaged pay is based on the number and length of loads you ran that week.

 

Ok my fellow transporters of goods...(sounds pretty high tech, lol)...Anyway here is a looong overdue update.

I was chosen by my company to become a trainer. Now I know that there are some drivers out there who may feel that a driver with only six months of experience should not be a trainer. You are entitled to your opinion. But just like i asked a driver at a Pilot in CT, please explain and if you can prove to me that I can't do the job then so be it. He asked me had I ever driven over ice or in snow? My answer was yes. I was in the Colorado Rockies with snow and ice on the ground. I'm still here to type about it so evidently I did something right. So he tried to find something else to stump me on. He asked what is the bridge law? My answer to him was...for which state? So he says Florida. I told him I didn't know it off the top of my head but could find it in my atlas or in this day and age of technology "google" it. To which his response was "I still think nobody should be a trainer until they have two years driving experience." I told him just like I said earlier in this post "You're entitled to your opinion." But I did leave him with this point to ponder. If you have a driver with two years experience who doesn't do his ELOGS properly and fails to send in the appropriate macros and continuously drives over his hours would you choose him over the driver with six months experience who does everything he or she is supposed to do? His answer was a yes to the two year guy. Sad to say I'm glad he's just a driver and not a company owner. If he was he wouldn't be in business long.

Til next time, keep it between the lines.

 

Thank you for reading Madagascar. I try to keep my emotions out of it so that ppl can make their own informed decisions. Is everyday peachy keen? Not at all. But everyday wasn't great while I was in the army either but I don't go around bashing the military.