Should I switch companies, Part Deaux

He might not be satisfied with the $15.75 hourly rate?

 

After doing 2100 miles in 7 days?
I would be.I could sit until I would get bored.

 

If you are towing a bulk dry tanker it should only take maybe 6 minutes to hook up, another 5 to fill it to 15 pounds square inch and crack your first pot open. Drain pot, crack next one. Repeat until all pots are drained. Dump air. Unhook everything after the trailer's atmosphere equals outside atmosphere.

all done in about 45 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes depending on season. Colder air is easier to blow than hot less dense air.

Or you can turn it into a three hour exercise by taking that tanker to 8 pounds, crack half a pot and then ride the clock until that thing sings a little bit on empty pot. 250 down 250 back at .37 = 187 dollars for the load. Obviously you are going to do just the one load per day. Already a 12 hour day to 14 at most.

Loading with a herd of other trucks waiting can take a couple hours. Pre-loading is better. Get ahead of eveyrone. The problem is everyone likes to preload too so you wait some more.

You give up your truck to the next driver. waiting on you at the yard. Or you stand around waiting on the previous driver to get out of it so you can get going. That tells me you are probably supporting a Roofing shingle Plant like Tamko with Lime powder. 24/7 service to that place. So no preloads for you. There is probably something else put into it by the driver after or before you.

Eh the money is ok. But nothing special at .37 They are pretty cheap. Actually a little bit too cheap for a 500 mile round trip with a bulk tanker. Ive done it but they paid me something like 130 dollars for the run no mileage, just straight bulk trailer load of cement going away into Virginia deep into the Shenandoah. You already know you are gone all day. Compared to say Frederick Maryland Lime Kiln filling cement straight to Pentagon Arlington Silos where you might get 6 loads in in one day delivered. That's 65 dollars a load. Times 6 loads -= $390 dollars gross for the day's work, and if you preloaded on the way home to race back to Pentagon (Yes the actual pentagon is maybe a stones throw away...) in the morning and do 6 more loads and keep that up 5 days a week... = 1950 Gross per week. This is back in the 80's enough money so you can stand there like cletus and laugh at the smokey standing on your fuel tank writing speeding tickets. 7 of those gets you suspended. SO you only are careful to get 6 max per 18 months, pay em and keep rolling. Just don't ever get caught above 95 it's mandatory arrest back then. Those old detriot macks could do 110 crossing the legion bridge into Virginia in the far two left lanes, (back then, not signed or restricted. And we were probably the cause of those signages LOL.... scaring the poor beemers at 110.)

187 dollars a day, 500 miles a day. Steady work but wait on the man ahead of you to wrap up or a man waiting on you to wrap up and give him the truck... Eh... Half tempted to see if you can get a bunch of shorter runs or... have the company match your current pay at .50 At 500 miles times .50 a mile it's a nice cool 250 gross for the day. Plus maybe two hours or three at most. Call it 300 gross.

You are probably at .50 doing one load per day working LESS HARDER than I was shoving 6 into Pentagon like a little ##### trying to be first in the silo so I can get that unicorn 6th load for the day.

And you wondered why speeding that level was intensive in those days.

So. Talk to your prospective company see if they can pay you .50 a mile. If so? You will be a good loyal worker doing your 500 miles a day, pump one load off, load another in 20 minutes and off you go to bed at home each night.

Don't take this job on at .37 a mile.

 

I don't see how monthly bills matter? My monthly bills are $380 (plus food,cigs).Try to beat that -)
And yet I do at least 3000 miles a week and would be doing more if I ran with full loads.

 

Obviously no,I don't. 3k miles should take me 5 days unless some disaster happen.

 

Hm.

I'll have to think on that. You make a strong case.

I don't mind spending a dollar to get something good. rather than something too cheap to last.

Your case is pretty stronger now that you posted this additional tidbit. Make me lean towards taking this job.

I ask you this. You gonna get bored hauling the same route all day every day in any weather?

 

Does Tucker get paid for clicks on his poll? If so, I ain't clicking