New Student, wondering about Long Beach Port

Back when this thread was current Walmart had just contracted with my employer for us to do local runs between LA/Long Beach ports and its South Gate and Eastvale (aka Mira Loma) warehouses. We got paid $300/day regardless of whether we only worked 6 hours or 14 hours (shifts averaged about 10-11 hours). The ports were a real mess back then. I worked second shift. I'll never forget one evening when the port hostlers refused to set any chassis down for us to use. I noticed one over in a corner that they left exposed if you were willing to back under it at a 90-degree angle. I can't resist a backing challenge. When one of them saw me doing a bunch of maneuvering to attempt that, he came over and lifted it up onto a stack, out of reach.

 

If you want to work hard and make a lot of money. LTL it’s the way to go.

 

It might help potential LTL drivers decide whether to pursue it or not if you added a little more specificity to "work hard." There's a big difference between "start your shift at midnight, push super-heavy dollies around on gravel nightly year-round (even uphill sometimes?), and chain a dozen tires up nightly six months of the year" and "constantly drive 70 hours/week 52 weeks/year." The latter looks much easier to me than the former and doesn't qualify as "hard work" in my opinion, but a lot of people would probably call it that I would guess.

 

The ports present some unique challenges you don't find at ordinary warehouses, but once you get acquainted with the way things work there, yes, it's an easy job.