Reefer madness!

I wouldnt do anything else...

That being said. You need to get on with a good place for company drivers. There are plenty of short runs that are lucrative as hell for the company but you may only earn low pay maybe 100, 150 a day. If you are paid by the mile you want the long miles. @Chinatown can offer some suggestions if you give your home location nearest big city. I always found reefer much more lucrative as an owner operator. Drop and hook dry van you probably make more, maybe a few cents less per mile but you win when it comes to time taking to pickup and deliver. I dunno. I like it.

 

My last trainee had 6 months so I believe this is correct.

.42 cpm + .07 cpm in bonus.

11,500 miles per month (needed for top bonus) x .49 cpm = $5635.

Additional .05 cpm on hazmat loads.

 

Magnum is a good choice; no bad reviews that I can find.
I'm also a fan of Freymiller, Schuster, FFE for reefer companies.

 

I like FFE.

I do not like the Grocery. Even though I built my younger years doing nothing but that in reefer. I learned to run medicines with McKesson in Memphis. With the exception of teams my particular task was strictly solo support of the west coast teams in Arkansas with their trailers so they don't have to run 500 miles just to get loaded from little rock to Memphis and then back west. It's drop hook for them, just as it is for me.

I'll be speaking with the Revenuer in the morning and see where i stand. We'll see how it goes.

Again, FFE is a adventure in Reefer, but you do the work within their structure. Arkansas had one time in Batesville pretty much one of the best smaller company reefer outfit ever, Dowdy. Its a strange name to some but they probably have been out of business for some time. I am seeing some of the old properties in NLR completely under the ownership of other fleets. So I must assume they are out of the industry.

Keep in mind, you probably will stand to lose time in some places waiting to load, waiting to unload and if not careful lose your shirt financially to third party lumpers when you do not get reimbursed.

 

That's why you pay a lumper with t check or com check directly from either your company or the broker or whoever's paying the freight bill. You can use cash, but the FIRST time you get burned is the LAST time you try to make the ordeal easy.

Fwiw I don't do lumpers anymore, not part of my business, when it was, I've never been burned on paying and collecting it back later.

 

I"m a company driver and pull refer. All I can add to this is that I get all the miles I can handle and it doesn't tend to fluctuate as much as other types of freight. It's been said many times before, but I'll say it again....People always eat and need food.

 

I've done flatbed, dry van, reefer. I'll take reefer all day. Consistent runs, lots of night driving, can make big money if you travel all 48, and the reefer running helps me sleep lol

 

It varies widely. Sometimes I can get loaded or unloaded in an hour. Other times maybe 3 or 4 hours. I don't mind the load times if I'm on a long haul...which is primarily what I do. Yes. most companies pay detention time.