Want To Drive A 379 Pete

I dont have a problem with that.
There may still be a few out here that can & will run the behind off a log book.
But...there needs to be ample compensation for it to be worthwhile anymore.

The one time is all it takes & your days in a truck are pretty much guaranteed to be over.

Not to mention your earning ability for the rest of your days.

 

I'm trying to figure out why you're pushing these guys. Enlighten me here, Crow. They have supposedly good pay, but is that it? Surely they have something more going for them. I know you don't have much info on them, but maybe you could find out some info for us if nothing more than to justify your pollyanna posts.

If I could get away with it, I'd not even run a log book. But then again, that's one reason I don't have a CDL anymore.

 

I'm not pushing 'em. The lady asked if anyone knew of any companies with Pete 379's. I answered her question and included how much she'd make. When others kept saying that you wouldn't make any money driving a 379 I said what I did, which is what you originally quoted from me.

 

Well, I'll push them a little. 35 pennies a mile isn't bad at all, and the outfit has solely 379s. I guess it'd hinge on their turnover, benefits, and miles offered. If I were near their terminal in Cal-ee-forn-ya, I'd go check 'em out in person. Sounds like it'd be worth it to mosey on over to their headquarters and see what's up.

 

My friend has avg'd about 2800 miles with 'em as an O/O and he's been home almost every weekend. Due to some financial problems, he's currently staying out until Oct. His financial problems are directly related to his inability to budget and tell his kids no when they want something and not at all because he's not made enough money.

 

Thanks again for the info. I have to say I'd check those guys out.

We should always be on the lookout for companies that can serve to increase our choices. No one wants to be stuck with only the likes of JobHunt, SwiftQuit, England, etc. These little companies like Pride in Bakersfield that don't appear in the papers and the slick magazines are a good avenue to take to avoid those rotten apples.

Thanks to sly marketing, many a driver believes that there aren't many choices out there for a driver these days. Nonsense. There are plenty of choices. One just has to dig some, that's all. Most of these are good companies that don't advertise, so drivers never hear about them. Well, I'd much rather work for a good outfit than one that constantly forces an advertisement in my face or bugs me with phone calls begging me to come work for 'em. They need to beg because a boatload of last week's drivers quit 'em, understand, and now they want me to play this week's latest fool. No thanks.

It's all about perceptions. It's all about perceptions.

 

Flatbed specialist TMC runs ALL Pete's... not sure about 379's, though.
And they have western linehaul routes, too

 

I am in a 06 379 right now and I love my truck,
I am running Chicago to the west coast weekly and getting big miles.
Sure my milage pay isnt as high as everybody else but I turn more miles than most company drivers. Its an Old School type company, no Qualcom or computers and we run 80mph.
Its not for everybody, and not for green horns. I think most people on this forum wouldn't like running that way, Roehl JB Swift Werner(what a joke, computer logs, yea right) seem to be the way things go around here.
2800 avg. per week no way, those are the guys playing games at the truckstops and watching TV hanging out killin time. I aint got time for that crap.

 

This is how I've always ran. I'm out of work right now but Iwas runing 3000 to 3500 miles in four days and having a three day weekend. Of course I have been bashed continuously around here being told I can't possibly do that every week. Heck, I'v been doing it or for 12 years and it's allot less than I used to run... getting old and all!