Old dominion vs any other ltl

Coming up on 5 years with OD , have been very happy . Run line haul , not P and D , so can not really comment on P and D . But the company as a whole has been top notch.

 

P and D does the local pickup and delivery. Line haul takes the freight that P and D picked up from point A to point B . The P and D guy will deliver it . Line Haul can be home daily or gone all week , P and D will be home daily . Line Haul pays more , but can not state as fact as to how much .

 

P&D goes around and "peddles" to local industries and sometimes residences with a liftgate and lots of patience, dropping off and picking up freight by day when customers are open. They return to the barn in the evening, the freight is rearranged into trailers to go in a certain direction, and the linehaul guy drives at night to take those to either another barn or to meet someone from another barn midway and swap sets. Some outfits use full length trailers, most use 28' pups.

The P&D guy gets paid hourly, the linehaul by miles except for detention and accessorials like making up/breaking up sets. Depending on the company and the work in that location, one makes more than the other, but typically linehaul is the money job. The P&D guy doesn't need gym membership and sleeps at night.

There are daylight linehaul and OTR linehaul gigs as well, the former requires seniority and the latter is when you see a sleeper cab pulling doubles and usually also means a team setup. Some of those run coast-to-coast, FxG is an example and YRC likely does similar.

 

You’ll love linehaul. It’s were the moneys at. Any LTL companies like runners. Typically senior drivers only want to work the min to be off. There are some greedy drivers but for the most they work their min bid. A job to you can retire and stack that 401k.

 

Yeah, do line haul. Old Dominion is one of the best, then there's Estes Express.
Friend of mine does line haul with Estes Express; drop & hook, city to city and home every day.
Makes over $70K. It's possible to make a lot more than that, but he's content with $70K.