Saia vs. r& l

R+L is better than any OTR job. Stick around for a year then switch. Other companies offer drop/hook pay, fuel pay, delay pay, breakdown pay and etc.

I prefer to get paid for EVERYTHING I do because at the end of the day you will be on same exact interstates as the other LTL drivers.

 

So R&L doesn’t pay for anything other than the run miles?

 

Yes but they call it “trip pay” and don’t break it down to a cpm rate, to make it seem like a better deal.

 

So they pay per hour when we’re fueling and setting up the trailers and things like that?

 

Not as far as I’m aware.

 

naw, you gonna end up doing that for free.

 

They claim the stop pay and fueling is built into the trips rate. Shorter runs pay better then longer runs. I used to know the algebra equation to figure up the pay running different routes but I forgot it.

 

Sounds like too much hassle.

 

Update on Estes application: still haven’t heard back from hiring manager, last Friday called to recruiting and he said he sent An email to Hm and give him a callbackthis Friday if we don’t heard anything by then, at this point we’re so frustrated and I personally feel like we’re begging for the big companies for a job, how is that us fellow driver’s appreciate teams but not the companies?

 

Estes takes a while to get hired on with. I think it was 4-6 weeks for me.