Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

SPD, yes to the training, honestly I’m not that impressed with the drivers coming out of that program, but they are improving it every week. I just sent about 30 pictures to one of the trainers to help with securement of common loads. You will typically work with one of the local drivers for a week or two in Washington. If you can haul, secure, and tarp glass you won’t have an issue here.
Yes we have a few Florida drivers, we even have a small yard in Melbourne that an elevator account is run out of.


It’s not all peaches and cream here, we are a “small company” so only 5 yards nation wide, the only company shop we have is in Washington. We get a lot of service and repairs done on the road. We have accounts with pre approved limits (no waiting on po’s) at speedco/loves, and ta/petro. No night dispatch and limited weekend dispatch. The only thing 24/7 is safety and they are Shaky if they answer on the weekends, a call to one of the higher ups gets that sorted out quickly though. You get their cell phone numbers in orientation.

no routing, no fuel solution (any loves or PFJ), no directions to customers, no check calls, no “your truck hasn’t moved in 10.5 hours” messages.

I’ve been here 7 years and I’m happy. I haven’t found a job that will pay more.

oh yeah we have apu’s and inverters. None of that opti idle stuff, we do unfortunately have collision mitigation on most of our newer trucks though. That’s the first negative effect I can directly blame on Daseke. They have helped us grow from a 35 truck company that only bought used equipment on 2009 to a nearly 200 truck company that only buy brand new trucks and trailers.

 

did you do 175k miles or what lol. I’m just generally curious because that’s what I estimated the 122k guy at

 

SPD hires out of Florida as far as I know, I'm not a driver for them, but there was a YouTube driver who lives in Lakeland and works for them, I don't think he's driving for them anymore, he's in some kind of marketing position with them now.

 

“Stronger by the mile” on YouTube. Yes he took a social media position with the company.

 

I had to call bravo Sinatra on the $122K wages for that driver also. For that much coin he’s either a trainer that stays out forever or getting some other accessorized pay for something else.

 

1783 miles? Not a bad check for that

 

But that check also included vacation and surge pay

 

Base pay is just the start.




Bobtail $3,102.80
Deadhead $21,719.56
Detention $367.50
Holiday Pay $840.00
Loaded Miles $26,458.81
Performance Pay $4,185.09
Shorthual $16,851.90
Shorthual < 50 $10,360.00
Stop Off $450.00
Trailer Search $300.00
Trailer Shuttle $465.00
Training $180.00
TE Pay $6,340.00
Training Bonus $210.00
Vacations $5,319.60
Other $1,625.00
Total $98,775.26

My short haul pay is $27,211, which works out to about 26 cpm. Add in base pay of 52 cpm, bonus of 4 cpm and you're looking at an average of 80 cpm.

I drive an average of 400 miles a day, m-f, doing three loads a day, usually 11-12 hours max. When you look at what I actually earn on average a day and divide by my base rate plus performance pay (56 cpm) it comes out to a 620 mile a day average, or roughly 155,000 miles 'driven' in the year.

Understanding your pay structure and your companies freight profile is key to making money in this industry. My guess is the Crete guy who made $122,000 really understands how to make your dispatch system work for him. I'll also guess that he sold back some vacation time.

 

Without vacation pay and just running 1783 for that week it is not a bad pay for that little work