Needing advice from fuel delivery transporters

$25+ to $14 is about average. That's if you're paid hourly. If you are then every minute your there you get paid for. Some companies pay OT after 10 hours or after 40 hours a week and some do not pay OT at all. In 1998 I got paid $1650 gross a week and that's only 60 hours a week. We worked 4 10hr days for our work week. Anything over 10hrs was OT and everything over 40hrs a week was OT. However, you'll see this type of pay getting weeded out when the companies are changing.

 

All you can do is talk to other drivers, and apply to truly find out... Have to look at a few years from now as well, not just today... Company I work for starts a bit lower than some, but I don't pay for health/dental premiums, and there is good earning potential after some years of service.

 

For the time you put on the job it's a lot more than OTR driving. You're not going to make top dollar your first few years. Figure you make 50 cents a mile and drive 2500 miles a week. That's $1250 gross a week. Your gone at least 6 days, that's 144 hours for a whopping $8.68 an hour. . Even if you're only gone 5 days that's still 120 hours or $10.40 an hour. Plus you won't see $.50 an hour.

So there's more than one way to look at it. I like having another life besides a truck and so do alot of other people. Just make sure you know what you're getting into. BTW I was quoting 1998 pay.

 

That's the way I look at it. Ever since my son was born I wanted to be home and I got lucky. The gasoline companies run 70 hours a week because they run every day. I believe if you switched over you'd enjoy it.

 

Cox is a pretty good company. Their HQ is Bakersfield but they have terminals all over California.

 

9 years tanker exp. hauling fuels, oil, etc.. I have worked in different geographical areas & have found a few common principles when it comes to hiring practices: 1) best paying companies will pick the best experienced drivers 2) drivers that stay in the business will move around within the local companies (inexperienced drivers stand little chance to beat them out for jobs)
You can go ahead and apply at all companies but the most likely way to get into the business is with the lower paying companies which to tend to have a higher turnover rate as their drivers move on for higher pay.

What to expect: starting wages are between $13 and & $17 an hour and veterans get choice of shifts, this means that newbies work nights and weekends, training is usually 2 to 3 weeks

 

I just noticed that you're from San Diego. I've worked their plenty. Outfits most likely to sign you on there are SOCO and Coastal. SOCO pays hourly and uses bobtail tankers too. Coastal in SD I believe pays per load. I beleive that both also allow veteran drivers to choose their shifts which means nights and weekends for you. It's been about 4 years since I've been working down there but this is the last I knew of these folks.
There are other small outfits that you can check out. Most work is local deliveries with some oil loads to be picked up around Long Beach area and an occasional trip to the Colton rack.