new trucking family & we are STARVING! It has to be better than this!??

You are certainly welcome. i will tell you that I was born and raised in Iowa and I know both of these companies. I do believe decker would fit your families needs a bit better with what you described you were looking for. They are both very family oriented and while they are big enough to have all the perks but small enough you are not just a number.. Best of luck

 

Ask baby joseph he claiming its company driver out there making $2000 dollars a week. he's the man you need to speak he has all the company man answer.lol

 

If you go company at first they will dispatch all the loads to your husband and even if decides down the road to lease with them he will still be dispatched the loads. On a lease he can choose to take or turn down the load as a company driver you cannot. Also with company you have access to all of the insurance and benefits in most lease cases you will have to get that yourself as a lease purchase is like having your own business which includes the bills for repairs on the truck etc etc. Being new I would recommend to go company and with there pay scale he would be getting about a 10cent per mile raise from where he is now. Also they have the miles so he can choose to stay out as long as he wants and put in for his home time and they will let him come home. Decker is a regional route so he will run to many of the same places and the same loads week in and week out. As a company driver he does not have to worry about the lanes or permits or repairs and it is a steady paycheck. He can run company and then down the road when things are more comfortable with him at a new company he can look into the lease if he wants but may decide that the company job is what he enjoys.

 

@Big Papaxx is right, Decker flatbed is more regional which means fewer long runs.

Stay away from any lease deal or purchase deal right now. Your husband just started trucking and needs to learn more first; he should be a company driver.
TMC drivers make good money , so your husband must be driving for some affiliate such as a contract driver that has a few trucks leased to TMC. Too much of the pie being sliced so the slices are small when they reach your husband.
If he insists on flatbed, then he should either work as a TMC company driver or change companies to maybe Waggoners Trucking Co. which pays .50 cpm and runs coast to coast. He will need hazmat endorsement and passport for this company.
Endorsements and passport and TWIC are money in the bank and that's why many of us senior drivers stress that to new drivers still in CDL school.
Did he check Howard Transportation in Weirton, WV? It's flatbed.
Maybe Abilene Motor Express (refrigerated) in VA? Those drivers don't complain on here about paychecks.
Waggoners has a couple dozen terminals including a couple in Canada and one in Fairmont, WV. Do the online application for him because he's busy and stressed out, and go from there. They do hire new CDL grads from accredited schools.

 

How about having a sit down with current co. and bring this info with. Tell them you need more pay as you are having a hard time feeding the family.

If they cannot match, then tell them you will have to leave for better pay elsewhere.

Tell them you like working here, but just cannot make it on this payscale.
See what they say.

 

We got a big family too. We could never afford paying over 1100 a month insurance. So we go without and hope for the best.

 

Not good with 4 kids!!

 

No Sir. Why I'm over working temporarily in Korea.

 

The last thing anyone broke, hungry, with 6 kids, and admittedly desperate needs to be doing is leasing a truck as an independent contractor. Hubby needs to get a job as a company driver paid on a W2 with benefits before you folks end up on the street homeless.