Thinking of Conway TL

Congrats!!!!

 

If you believe what Hunted said your going to be in for a heck of a surprise... Update us in 6 months

 

Coast to coast sounded like he was running team...which I'd say you could very well bring home $1200 a week ....

 

I'm talking in terms of solo driving

 

I'm running with my trainer, who gets $0.10 more than his regular rate for training me. Last Saturday, we went from Joplin to Loveland Colorado. on Monday we left Golden Colorado for Winston Salem North Carolina. Yesterday we left North Carolina for La Mirada California. For the last two loads, I will have a paycheck over $1,000 even at my measly $0.26 per mile. It's over 4,000 miles. Other trainees I know are experiencing good miles, though not quite as much.

 

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LOL say bye bye to that post

 

Keep us posted, Dreamboat.
Watch and see what happens when you're on your own.
$34,000 a year. Period.

This will be interesting to see the usual newbie attitude changes after a bit of time (and a whole lotta really low, low paychecks).

Just keep repeating to yourself what your school, your orientation, your trainer, and the very few CWTL regulars in this Forum keep harping; attitude is everything (even in the face of total bankruptcy).

Would be great if you started your own Conway Truckload thread and kept a sort of online diary, so to speak, as to your experiences, adventures and pay (again, without giving too much personal info.)
Aside from being a great way to indulge in a little 'self therapy', keeping the rest of us enlightened could also have the added perk of showing this old codger that his claims of Conway Truckload's extremely low pay are incorrect.

Think of the thrill...the victory.... the glory!

 

I agree with a lot of what you say about Con-way but I think a full year you will make more than 34k...

I worked for them for 51 weeks but its wasn't from Jan-Dec... This was a few years ago and I don't have my old tax forms handy to try and dig them out to see... If I remember I was somewhere around high 40's for 51 weeks... Mind you I spent normally around 2 months out on the road... I was lucky enough with the T2000 they had me in that I never really had any down time due to break-downs but I did have down-time without a doubt...

Can't tell you how many time's I ended up at Taylor or Laredo terminals and sat for a couple days waiting on a load but of course they would dispatch me on a load but I had to sit and wait for it to arrive...

The Lancaster, TX terminal sure isn't one you will make any money out of because your only going to get short BS tractor supply loads...

Having to have Haz-mat as a requirement was ridiculous because the loads that were Haz-mat only went a couple hundred miles and almost always I would have a CFI trailer that didn't have placard holders so it was fun in the winter trying to tape down placards...

Another thing when you go to the Taylor terminal chances are you would wait a day or so for a load coming in that's going to Canada, take it to Canada, sit a day in Canada only to be dead-headed back to Taylor so I can sit there for another day and then do almost a photo copy of what I did the previous round...

Wasn't a horrible experience working for them but there is much better out there...


High 40's for 51 weeks as an OTR driver isn't anything to run home about...

 

Glad to hear that you did so much better than myself.
You were very fortunate to have been given a decent truck; not usual practice for new drivers.
Along with all your shared experiences, I also had a lot of downtime with my truck. A lot, as in nearly every week. And then the usual two or more days in the shop.
And I made every effort to request a different truck (even by going to 'the top') all to no avail. And there were many other drivers experiencing the same problems as myself, a few drivers even posting their similar experiences on this forum.