Old Dominion team drivers

Tricky area to explain - they match 50% of your contribution until you go over 6%. So if you put in 4%, they put in 2%. You put in 6%, they put in 3%. We put in 8% and they put in 3%, totalling 11% of gross. They also put in a discretionary amount at year end if they have met profit goals for the year.

Hope this clarifies.

 

It's horses for courses I guess, home daily and weekends is great, especially if you have kids or family or hobbies - we used to run 3 weeks out at a time running reefer and it was just too long away , do we find this the best compromise. Don't get me wrong - after 1200 miles a day for 5 days straight, 2 showers and icebox cuisine we are both worn out and ready for 2 days off - but clearing $2400 a week teminds us it's worth it.

Let me know how you get on - remember persistence pays in the end.

 

Spooner,
My health insurance for just myself is as follows:
Health - $7.50
Dental - $2.00
Vision - $1.30

My wife has herself and an 18 year old and 22 year old (sons) on her plan and pays
Health - $55.00
Dental - $8.00
Vision - $2.30

She is 41, I'm 36 - both in fairly good health.

 

Spooner -
Running the solo wild board as Buck Trucker said, you can clear about $1200 - but that involves packing a bag and going out until your 70 are extinguished, but you get to sleep in a motel every night.

After you get seniority then you get to bid on regular runs that would have you home every day(or night).

The previous post on health insurance - those are weekly figures, and it's with United Healthcare, and it's reasonably good insurance.