Two Job Offers, wanting veteran’s opinions on which to go with

You get OT after 40 hours hauling scrap?


One might be more money, but your unloading a trailer by hand?

The scrap would be easier.

 

An hour commute for a home daily gig is a long way to go.

Imagine you are up at 2:30am (just picking a time), out the door at 3am, get to work at 4am. Now put in 12 or so hours, then drive home in 4 pm traffic for an hour? Probably more than that at that time of day.

You may be home daily, but you won't have any quality time while you're there, you're just gonna be passing yourself at the door.

 

2 hour round trip daily commute will be brutal. DG deliveries are legendary. I'd lean toward the Toyota roll-off, but I usually select based on hassle-factor not pay. Which carrier has a better SAFER score?

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I’ve heard absolute horror stories from Dollar General accounts and drivers. Stuff so bad I wouldn’t ever consider those jobs. Heavy product falling on you; terrible store managers making your life worse; the company not treating you well, etc. That it’s a decent commute doesn’t make it appealing either.

I’d take the roll-off job. Sounds EZ-PZ, a good gig. Especially if there’s OT

 

Id take Toyota's rolloff scrap metal

 

I did an hour commute with 12 hour shifts home daily for almost 11 years.

At the time I was broke as hell and it actually made sense, so I volunteered for it because it was a 4on3off schedule and saved me 120 miles a week in fuel versus going in five days a week.

It was rough, but I got used to it, and having a three day weekend was awesome, but I was worthless during my hometime Monday-Thursday. I found another job several years ago that I'm still at, with the same 4on3off schedule, but it's only a 20 minute drive one way, and if I come in on a Friday and Saturday it's 20 hours of overtime right off the start. I get at least 40 hours a month.

Working 5 days a week with an hour commute hand unloading Dollar General is going to be tough. Not to mention backing in their parking lots. If I had your choices I'd go with the closer commute and make up the money with overtime.

 

For the math to math on the DG job you’d have to run 520 miles 5 days a week for 52 weeks.

 

I've never worked for Dollar General, but surely they get paid per stop on top of mileage.

 

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