The Fuel Hauler Thread

Does anyone have info on Brown Bear Transportation? I had a interview with them yesterday for a local fuel hauling job. Doing deliveries to Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Pay is per load and training pay for a month is $30/hour. That's currently all the info I got

 

I would think load pay would suck especially if you get held up at the rack. Sometimes it can back up.

 

From what I was told. Load pay is new for them. Some drivers are still hourly but soon everyone will be load pay. Currently waiting to hear back if even got the job

 

Load pay blows as a company driver

 

It blows if you're trying to do a bunch of short runs. Too many chances to get hung up at the rack or at the customer.
Getting paid by the load isn't bad if you're doing one or two loads a shift providing the rate is decent.

 

A company switching from hourly pay to load pay sounds like a big red flag to me.

 

Based on the paper I was given. If get loads like out to Vermont it's $300-$400+ range. Coming from South Portland. So about a 4 hour or less drive. Will see though if I get it.

 

They claimed drivers made more money. But I see that being 50/50 if true. Since recruiter. Though sounds like he is also a driver or was. Because said about how for I think a week ran overweight loads on a dual axle vs a tri axle

 

Fake news…. If they wanted to give the drivers more money just raise the hourly wage…..and Maine dot has no sense of humor if your running a tandem with tri-axle gallons they will park you and make you get legal. Ie pump off excess weight.

And hauling across 302 or 202 is slow going in the best of times

it would be a hard pass for me.

 

Current company I'm with seems to just put whatever weight on a tri axle. Once I hauled just over 67k on one