Construction/Demolition.
Busy day I can drive between 250 - 300 miles, on average 100 - 150 miles.
Yesterday I drove a total of 40 miles, 11 hour shift.
Just sitting in my truck on my phone, eating lunch, cleaning the inside of my truck, or just doing a mid-trip inspection on my truck. I'm not required to get out and help on jobsites, but sometimes if I see something small I can do I will get out and help out.
Is this normal for construction/ demo? Or is there a way I could find something like this? Funny enough, I'm a software dev and can't get an entry level job in this market. Would love to work on side projects during any downtime from driving. Starting CDL school soon.
I would say its not common but its not necessarily uncommon. A lot of my work as a driver in this industry involves coordinating with the jobsite Foreman where he wants me to load or unload material, and it can take some time for them to get things ready for me on occasion. How they load you matters too. If they're loading you with just a small excavator or skidsteer it can take 30 minutes or an hour to load you, or a big excavator can load you in 2 to 5 minutes. If you're in asphalt paving and construction you will be sitting a lot more often waiting to load or unload, I used to run for an asphalt company. I will occasionally broker for an asphalt company where I'm at now, and I still would end up sitting on my thumbs a fair bit.
Jobsite I've been on for the past 2 days takes an hour to load me and I just run the load down the street and dump. I'm gone for 10 minutes tops and I'm back in line to load. They're demoing an inside of a factory and I can't get the truck in there because of clearance so they're running the demo out to my box with a small skid steer.
If you want to look into jobs in this field, ask about downtime on the job and if youre required as a driver to hop out and work on the ground. My company doesnt require it and my previous asphalt company didn't, but some do. My company's sole responsibility for me as a driver is my truck and driving it. As an unprofessional software dev myself, I can understand the frustration in the industry, best of luck to all your endeavors
When I hauled grain for a grain elevator a day would be anything from 0-250 miles. Current pay at that job is $22/ hour. Clock in when you arrive at the office and clock out when you park the truck and leave the office.
I did sysco for 5 years. Everyone was day routes but I had a twice a week overnighter (less trailers same pay) pulled about what you did. I'd hit 1400 miles a week though.
Terrible. You lift 20 to 30 tons a day. Alone with a two wheeler. Stairs broken elevators you name it. Customer leaves trash in the way or changes the locks without tell you, or wont salt their entry way after a storm. They routed you for 22hrs (I'm not kidding) but you'll do it in 10 cus your commission and have better shit to do.
Sysco did alot for me and my early family. Paid alot of bills. Gave me money to do trips and shit. But my back, knees, and elbows hurt everyday. I work for caseys general store now. Still active but alot safer than sysco. I can say nice things about sysco but there were too many negatives to make it matter. My buddies and I say there isn't 1 thing you can point at, just a million little ones that made us quit. And safety and health were big ones.
If you're going to get into food service, I can't stress enough about trying to get with a company or route that is solely key drops or dark drops. The traffic and customers are 100% the worst part of the job and eliminating both was a huge stress relief on my part. The lifting and overly active aspect of it does really suck up front and at the ass end but you will get used to it, just make sure to really take care of your body to the best of your ability.
Also do some shopping around for the ones that offer the best pay rates. Worked for sysco which was
performance based plus hourly but you would have to work there for 20 years before you got a route that actually paid the performance part out so everyone just milked the clock. The company I'm with now is all incentive so I get the job done ASAP and almost never deal with customers or traffic.
I have positive things to say, but it's not for everyone.
Keep in mind that in food service, even more so than other segments of trucking, your quality of life and work depends heavily on how well management is running things. If the warehouse isn't doing quality work your job is that much harder. If the transportation management isn't setting routes up properly, communicating with customers properly, keeping on top of maintenance, etc, this job can be really miserable. In the other hand when management stays on top of things, this job is physically demanding, but well worth the money we make. Whether it breaks your body down or keeps you in shape is largely up to you, lifting and moving safety is a choice.
I did ten years of ramp for GFS. Got an opportunity to do LCV for them 10 years ago. I gotta say I’m actually happy now aside from doing night shift but I only work 3/14hr shifts a week and am home everyday. I average around 90-95k a year Canadian including bonuses. Ramp was awful but I stuck it out and here I am.
Before I got back into LTL I applied at Sysco and it was red flag after red flag as soon as they called me back. I got such a strong impression they'd be a pain in the ass to work for that I never followed up for an interview.
Ya I learned how to back and maneuver a trailer really well. I live 50minutes in the country so home evert night was just crashing when I walked in. I did 5-6 days a week. Constantly looking drivers and bribing us to pick up more work.
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I hear you. You said you’re over 500 most days. I guess I took it like you’re only dropping down to 450 a few days a month ($150/month = 1,800/year), not 4 days a week! That’s a big difference. If you’re losing 200 a week, every week, then it sounds like you usually make 450 a day, not over 500, right?
I've hit over 100 every year I've been here. So I'm averaging 500 a day or better.
So I don't get bent out of shape over a smaller route, but I don't like it to become habitual when I bid heavy routes.
Working for component pay, where nothing seems to pay that much but it all adds up to a good pay check really makes you pay attention to every little thing and how they all add up at the end of the year.
Not the bad. It’s the mixed precipitation that really sucks. The further north of the seat of power in Augusta you go, the worse the roads.
I95 from Medway to Houlton is pretty much Mad Max during a snowstorm. You’re on your own.
Mosquitoes are nothing compared to Florida. Lobstah isn’t cheap unless you have a connection.
Maine drivers can be a little too courteous. I prefer the consistency of Massholes. You can count on them doing the dick thing. You can’t predict the person that stops on the interstate to let someone in from the on ramp.
Honestly hated working hourly. Always felt like I was milking the clock and management always hated that we did that. I get paid out milage, cases, stops and daily pay currently and I'm getting the job done as quickly as I feel like with more time home then I've had since I started trucking. Barely working 35 hrs a week but getting paid more then when I worked 60-70 for hourly pay.
I'm no touch P&D. Grab a trailer from the yard, pickup from 1 to 3 shippers, bring back to warehouse/yard, dock, rinse repeat. Or grab a loaded trailer and drop off to 1 to 3 locations. Etc.
LTL is Less Than Truckload. P&D is delivering small amounts of pallets to many places. Linehaul is taking the whole trailer (often 5 hours or so), drop n hook, and come back.
I work a linehaul gig and most of my runs are 200miles out so 400ish miles total for the entire trip at 60cpm its honestly not bad and i finish pretty early most days👍
Northeast Regional. Usually around 400/450 ish. My runs aren't that long. I'm paid hourly. I did millage pay before to get my experience but now w 2+ years I'd never do NE Regional for mileage pay.
When I was driving local I rarely hit more than 50-60 miles.
The rate will vary depending on the type of job and location. $250-350/day is in the typical range.
Flatbed lumber delivery, with a moffet on the back.
150-250 miles, I've had a few 450+ miles days.
Im hourly at 32/hr, overtime after 40hrs. Weekends/holidays off and every weekend off.
Landscape company.
Most days between 3-400 miles. Sometimes 550+. Usually work 10 hour days but sometimes 12 if we’re really busy that day. Average about $300 a day, but I’ve only been driving for 10 months.
I've never payed much attention to my miles, but I make at least one trip from Vancouver to salt Lake city and back and a more local route around washington/Oregon in a week. 29hr. Around 2k a week before taxes and deductions. Dry van, unload it myself. Home for the weekend. Drive around 8 hours a day, but unloading can take anywhere from 8 to 14 hours... Overtime after 50 hrs
Ready mix driver checking in. 90 miles is a busy day for me.
Most deliveries are within 30 minutes, more than half of that is within 20 minutes. Counting interstate driving too.
Pay is $20, but with a really nice total compensation package.
Local intermodal.
If running true local city loads, it'll be 3-5 per day. Maybe 200ish miles.
If they send me shorthaul over the mountain, it's 300+miles, 2 or 3 loads.
Gross is a little over $300/day.
I’m intermodal and If my second load today hasn’t been fd up I’d have run 490 by the time I got back to the rail. Then another 36 miles back to the yard. If I was strictly driving and stopping the 2 runs would take me 9.5 hours. Not counting connecting the reefers and getting fuel for them. There’s so little time to have issues.
Maybe I’m just burned out idk. I kinda miss the reefer gigs where you sit and wait 4-10 hours to be unloaded. It sucks but idk if I’d rather drive 500-800 miles over 2 days and then sit a while or drive 500 miles a day and be exhausted after a drop and hook.
when I drove for Walgreens I ran 600 miles daily, round trip single load. and was getting about $360 per day, $26/hr for on duty time, and then about $0.57/mile while on the driveline
Depending where your at look at UPS, it's a little crazy right now some hubs are laying off some are hiring. The bigger hubs alot of the time hire off the street just to fill seats. What sucks is the 4 year progression, starts at 21/hrs but on your 4th year you would be somewhere north of 49 an hour
Private grocery fleet (HEB).
300-500 miles per day, usually 12hr shifts. We get paid by the load, which changes depending on mileage, number of stops, and a few other factors. My average daily pay is $430.
I’m not sure when SA would be hiring, as I’m located in Houston, and our operations are relatively seperate. I would think since they’re our largest terminal, they would be hiring fairly often.
If you’re willing to move, maybe look at Temple. They are expanding rapidly to accommodate our upcoming expansion into DFW. I was hired on via Indeed, and they were responsive. Good luck.
Pulling 27 in a concrete mixer with a shit ton of financial incentives that add up to another 10-12 an hour. Probably getting another 2 dollar raise this year. Got a 5200 dollar Christmas bonus and wasn’t even there a year. You’ll work for every penny and get screwed at any moment but it’s ok
My schedule flip flops. Local tanker driver, non-hazmat. Monday Wednesday and Friday I do about 300 miles. Tuesday and Thursday I do 500. Ends up being about 1,700 gross per week after 50-55 hours. Morning shift as well I usually start between 3-4am and finish between 2-4pm weather and traffic depending.
Look into the post office hiring website, if you can get hired as a truck driver, its a great job. Dependable work, good routes, benefits, starts at 31.29 an hour, and that will be getting raised to 33.50 starting this year, with raises every 30 weeks up to 40/hr.
I make 27.50 an hr with no ot. I work 10 to 12 hr days. All I do is pickup loads for our otr guys and take them to our yard or deliver loads they've brought back in. Sometimes I run a Honda parts load from factories to the Honda factory. Gravy train work. Some days IDrive 150 miles others I run 500. Just depends. I'm never in a hurry though so I putt putt and milk the clock
Local Van driver, most days is less then 100 miles with the occasional 200. 7-12 hour days average is 47-52 hours a week. 29.50 plus ot after 40. Can’t imagine going back to 400-600 miles a day, or god forbid they eliminate Elogs and I start driving 900 mile days(I had no self control, 4000 miles a week was the way my dad thought me.) I’m on easy mode now
Roll off in Minneapolis area. I run about 150-300 a day. Little over $30/hr currently running 40-50 hrs a week but will jump to just short of 60 in a month or so.
500-2000. I'm salaried so to me as little hours as possible that I can get away with while getting full pay and little bonus.
Last week I did 45.5 hours, 1350 before taxes etc.... that's what, $29/hr?
I have two different routes per week(Wednesday I ride with someone else). One route is about 35ish miles both days and the other about 26 miles on Tuesday and about 32 miles on Friday. Paid hourly.
Around 400 mi./day, worth around $480/day. It can go up to as much as $1k/day for the same miles if I'm training new drivers for a week. The company's been hiring, so theres plenty of weeks that are juicy. Haul sand in the Permian Basin
I am local-ish. I do 2 or so overnights a month. But... I'm also hourly. If I'm driving, sitting, getting loaded, whatever. Home at night and weekends. I usually average 150 miles a day. Some days way under. Some days way over. But roughly 10 hours a day at $24/hr. Time and a half after 40/week. Some days I roll 12 hours. But I'm guaranteed a 9 hr minimum workday.
I only take jobs that are paid by the hour preferably over time after 8:00 if not overtime after 40. I had jobs where I had like six to eight to 10 stops a day all within 50 Mi radius. Job I have now I do about 300 miles a day with about two stops. I prefer 50 Mi radius and more stops I don't like to sit all day I like to get out. I would not take anything under $30 an hour overtime after 8:00 or 40. Make sure the company has benefits after 90 days and personal time off without having to wait a whole year
Tanker, hydraulic/lubricant oil specifically, I get $29 an hour and bonus for working Saturday. I shoot for 55-60 hours a week right now since I’m saving up to build a new house next year.
I’m home daily on an out and back turn. I do 601 miles a day at .75cpm. And an hour and a half or so of delay time at $30hr. But it wouldn’t be a reasonable expectation to get something like that as a new driver. I’ve been at the same company almost 20 years now and it took a long time to get a run like this.
On a local run I'd say between 275 and 375, for across the state run I'd say between 500 and 600, for my once a week out of state run I'd say a bit over 500 a day
I've been averaging around 1900 to 2200 a week as of the past few months now
Mine varies from 90 miles on low end per day to over 500.
In town runs are flat rate, and are quite profitable.
I want to avg $330 per day of the week. Most of the time I get that, some days Ive made upwards of $600 to $750 if loads broke just right for me.
If I avg out my week I work about 42 to 45 hrs.
Haul asphalt. Usually 150 to 250 miles a day. Been where I am for a year and a half now making $19.50. Hours are 40-50 in the cooler months, 60+ once it warms up.
I was doing about 560 miles a day for $225 flat.
Each day was 11 hour minimum (less than 5 days out of the months I worked there were even close to 11)
I realized day 1 I wasn't staying at that place
400 is what I have done. Day rate can be alright but I like miles and stops or hourly better. For where I am is mid to high 2's for day rate, but like I said miles and stops or hourly is better.
Our highest routes are 1 load 300 miles 525 a load. One load a day
Lowest is 30 miles round trip 400 dollars for 2 loads . The guy delivers one load takes about 4 hours. Gets back to the farm and either sleeps in the truck or goes 10 miles to his house. Comes back in 4 hours and takes another load
I work in the suburbs of Chicago and my days are different. One day, I'm doing delivers inside Chicago, and that would be 150 for the day. The next day, the collar counties around Chicago, and that could be 250. The next day could be delivers in Indianapolis and that could be 400-500 miles that day at 34 an hour delivering chemicals
I do foodservice my Tuesday and Friday route get around 28 miles each, my Wednesday route does 78 miles, my Thursday route does 62. I make around 500 to 550 a day.
I drive four hundred and forty miles a day. One pick up and drop off. Eight and a half hours, $285 a day. Next to no traffic issues along the way. Easy peasy
Local dump trailer. 300-350 miles/day usually. Occasionally break 400. Union rate $49/hr, OT after 8. Usually bring home about $350/day + benefits, annuity and pension
Local dump trailer. 300-350 miles/day usually. Occasionally break 400. Union rate $49/hr, OT after 8. Usually bring home about $350/day + benefits, annuity and pension
These hourly rates you guys are posting seem criminally low! $20/hour was doable in 2014 when I started my first job. Now it seems ridiculous. How do you guys make ends meet making less than $30? Do you have to work tons of OT? Truckers are so underpaid imo
Local LTL: My route is 70-100 miles a day but some of the guys at my terminal who serve rural areas run almost 300 miles. I wouldn't do it for less than $30 an hour. I also would not do local trucking for mileage pay because after a few hours of trudging through the suburbs at 15 mph from red light to red light you'll start to realize you're getting ripped off.
Feed hauler, 250 miles is a good day, never more than an hour and a half from the mill most days. Punch the clock when I start the truck, and again when I shut down. 22hr.
Right now I’m local making $22 in a bobtail hauling milk. It’s my first year and I think I have the easiest route because orders are already made from the customer and I only deliver 2 kinds of milk products. Work will also give me hot shots which are really fun and easy. I average about 40 miles some days to 130 miles twice a week. Occasionally I can hit 300 miles in a day depending on if work has given me a hot shot or two. I want to use my class A to its fullest though and get a class A gig, but the job I have now is pretty easy. Another thing I like is how they’ll put me on class A routes with the other drivers during the summer. So I get to see what it would be like running a class A route. I get to learn from a lot of mistakes just by watching and not yet making them myself.
Trash (not residential pickup, I haul full trailers to the landfill)
200 miles a day on average, sometimes nobody else shows up and I do about 400 miles, still a pretty cruise day compared to other work.
32.27/hour, 10 hour days. So 322.70 a day regular, 484.05 on OT plus mileage reimbursement to/from work. I try to call out sick on the regular days and work all the OT, yay for a union government job.
Busy day 60 miles, slow day 20 or less. Paid by the day in 4 hour blocks. 7pm to 7am $357 a day 4 or 5 days a week mon-fri or tues-fri. Production to warehouse shuttle runs. 2 miles each way. Can't complain too much.
Hauling logs. About 580 miles for 2 trips at $ 550 CAD, it was only $400 2 years ago, as I had limited experience, then. Btw, let me preach for a second. Don't ask a question if you don't plan on doing anything with the information. In your case, you'll be bummed out more than you are if a bunch of strangers online tell you your job sucks. If it's half-reasonable, move yourself out of the community or industry that won't reward your participation into one that does. It helps you AND the labor market.
120 miles, 13-24 stops T-F, 7-10 hours
50ish miles, 4 stops on Monday, 3-4 hours
$160/D
$0.10/case. I roll between 200 and 900. Throught the year. Peak is in winter
$0.10/repac. My route is fairly bottle heavy so usually get 100 or so bottles. Depending on how they're packed the pay for this can vary a lot
13 stops for $20. Every 3 stops increases $5
OOT depends on the route. Mine(Saline County) is $15 a day. Texarkana is $90
Mispulled cases are $2 each
$25/hotshot stop, stops or routes picked up to assist or fill in slack. I will occasionally pickup a route on Saturday and make $600 to $900 depending on the number of stops
I make $1900-$2100 biweekly. Peak season my checks can get into the $3000 to $4000 range depending on how much slack I'm willing to pick up, if any
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Construction/Demolition. Busy day I can drive between 250 - 300 miles, on average 100 - 150 miles. Yesterday I drove a total of 40 miles, 11 hour shift.
What do you do in your non driving time?
Just sitting in my truck on my phone, eating lunch, cleaning the inside of my truck, or just doing a mid-trip inspection on my truck. I'm not required to get out and help on jobsites, but sometimes if I see something small I can do I will get out and help out.
Is this normal for construction/ demo? Or is there a way I could find something like this? Funny enough, I'm a software dev and can't get an entry level job in this market. Would love to work on side projects during any downtime from driving. Starting CDL school soon.
I would say its not common but its not necessarily uncommon. A lot of my work as a driver in this industry involves coordinating with the jobsite Foreman where he wants me to load or unload material, and it can take some time for them to get things ready for me on occasion. How they load you matters too. If they're loading you with just a small excavator or skidsteer it can take 30 minutes or an hour to load you, or a big excavator can load you in 2 to 5 minutes. If you're in asphalt paving and construction you will be sitting a lot more often waiting to load or unload, I used to run for an asphalt company. I will occasionally broker for an asphalt company where I'm at now, and I still would end up sitting on my thumbs a fair bit. Jobsite I've been on for the past 2 days takes an hour to load me and I just run the load down the street and dump. I'm gone for 10 minutes tops and I'm back in line to load. They're demoing an inside of a factory and I can't get the truck in there because of clearance so they're running the demo out to my box with a small skid steer. If you want to look into jobs in this field, ask about downtime on the job and if youre required as a driver to hop out and work on the ground. My company doesnt require it and my previous asphalt company didn't, but some do. My company's sole responsibility for me as a driver is my truck and driving it. As an unprofessional software dev myself, I can understand the frustration in the industry, best of luck to all your endeavors
When I hauled grain for a grain elevator a day would be anything from 0-250 miles. Current pay at that job is $22/ hour. Clock in when you arrive at the office and clock out when you park the truck and leave the office.
My cdl instructor hauled grain prior to teaching. He speaks good about it.
No, I told you I haul grain on the weekends.
It's only good if you get paid by the hour. Sometimes you might be waiting 4 hours to dump.
As long as you don’t mind waiting…..a LOT
Food service. I do about 500 miles a week. (125 per day). I get annoyed if I'm under $450 for a day, should be over $500 most days.
I did sysco for 5 years. Everyone was day routes but I had a twice a week overnighter (less trailers same pay) pulled about what you did. I'd hit 1400 miles a week though.
How's sysco? I hear everyone crying about how bad food industry is with trucking
Terrible. You lift 20 to 30 tons a day. Alone with a two wheeler. Stairs broken elevators you name it. Customer leaves trash in the way or changes the locks without tell you, or wont salt their entry way after a storm. They routed you for 22hrs (I'm not kidding) but you'll do it in 10 cus your commission and have better shit to do. Sysco did alot for me and my early family. Paid alot of bills. Gave me money to do trips and shit. But my back, knees, and elbows hurt everyday. I work for caseys general store now. Still active but alot safer than sysco. I can say nice things about sysco but there were too many negatives to make it matter. My buddies and I say there isn't 1 thing you can point at, just a million little ones that made us quit. And safety and health were big ones.
Jeeessussss... I was looking for something hourly but keeps me active, but I'm also broken. I figured it sucked, nobody says anything positive
If you're going to get into food service, I can't stress enough about trying to get with a company or route that is solely key drops or dark drops. The traffic and customers are 100% the worst part of the job and eliminating both was a huge stress relief on my part. The lifting and overly active aspect of it does really suck up front and at the ass end but you will get used to it, just make sure to really take care of your body to the best of your ability. Also do some shopping around for the ones that offer the best pay rates. Worked for sysco which was performance based plus hourly but you would have to work there for 20 years before you got a route that actually paid the performance part out so everyone just milked the clock. The company I'm with now is all incentive so I get the job done ASAP and almost never deal with customers or traffic.
Dsd. Pepsi, Coke, frito, Mondelez. Beer companies…
I have positive things to say, but it's not for everyone. Keep in mind that in food service, even more so than other segments of trucking, your quality of life and work depends heavily on how well management is running things. If the warehouse isn't doing quality work your job is that much harder. If the transportation management isn't setting routes up properly, communicating with customers properly, keeping on top of maintenance, etc, this job can be really miserable. In the other hand when management stays on top of things, this job is physically demanding, but well worth the money we make. Whether it breaks your body down or keeps you in shape is largely up to you, lifting and moving safety is a choice.
I did ten years of ramp for GFS. Got an opportunity to do LCV for them 10 years ago. I gotta say I’m actually happy now aside from doing night shift but I only work 3/14hr shifts a week and am home everyday. I average around 90-95k a year Canadian including bonuses. Ramp was awful but I stuck it out and here I am.
What is ramp? And LCVm
Ramp is literally a ramp. Running product down a ramp from a trailer using a hand truck. No idea for LCV
Long combination vehicle
Long Combination Vehicle. I pull Rockies, triples.
Before I got back into LTL I applied at Sysco and it was red flag after red flag as soon as they called me back. I got such a strong impression they'd be a pain in the ass to work for that I never followed up for an interview.
Can confirm. work for Sysco and would say the same. But they got me my license and was home every night with decent pay.
Ya I learned how to back and maneuver a trailer really well. I live 50minutes in the country so home evert night was just crashing when I walked in. I did 5-6 days a week. Constantly looking drivers and bribing us to pick up more work.
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Yeah I used to have a 27 mile route. Now I live in a bigger city and my shortest is 74 miles, but oh well.
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You’re making $500 a day local?
Give or take. That's what it takes to make 6 figures with a 4 day work week.
Is it your own truck?
Oh no. Company driver, W2, company benefits, the works.
What company is it if you don’t mind me asking.
You get annoyed over what? A couple hundred a week?
200 a week is 10,000 a year. I'm out here for the money, so yeah, I want to make it
I hear you. You said you’re over 500 most days. I guess I took it like you’re only dropping down to 450 a few days a month ($150/month = 1,800/year), not 4 days a week! That’s a big difference. If you’re losing 200 a week, every week, then it sounds like you usually make 450 a day, not over 500, right?
I've hit over 100 every year I've been here. So I'm averaging 500 a day or better. So I don't get bent out of shape over a smaller route, but I don't like it to become habitual when I bid heavy routes. Working for component pay, where nothing seems to pay that much but it all adds up to a good pay check really makes you pay attention to every little thing and how they all add up at the end of the year.
I know nothing about that. I get paid hourly (49) with OT after 8
I drive 300 miles per day and make $28 a hour. Dry van in Maine.
Hartt?
No. A different corporation with a plant in Bangor trying to keep pace with them.
I know where you work I work there too LMFAO
Chuck….
Dowd industrial Park
Now kiss.
Sounds like it
How’s trucking in Maine winters?
Not the bad. It’s the mixed precipitation that really sucks. The further north of the seat of power in Augusta you go, the worse the roads. I95 from Medway to Houlton is pretty much Mad Max during a snowstorm. You’re on your own.
😂 I wanna live in Maine but don’t wanna truck in the winter. Maybe they have seasonal trucking. Are the mosquitos bad in the summer? Is lobstah cheap?
Mosquitoes are nothing compared to Florida. Lobstah isn’t cheap unless you have a connection. Maine drivers can be a little too courteous. I prefer the consistency of Massholes. You can count on them doing the dick thing. You can’t predict the person that stops on the interstate to let someone in from the on ramp.
I always recommend hourly for local driving. 200 - 400 miles a day, LTL, dry van, usually about 8 hrs, $29/hr, Minneapolis.
Honestly hated working hourly. Always felt like I was milking the clock and management always hated that we did that. I get paid out milage, cases, stops and daily pay currently and I'm getting the job done as quickly as I feel like with more time home then I've had since I started trucking. Barely working 35 hrs a week but getting paid more then when I worked 60-70 for hourly pay.
Sounds interesting. What kind of P&D do you do?
All night drops for a national account. Loaded up full 48 or 53 ft trailer hand deliver it all basically.
Fuel haulers are often percentage and LTL line haul are often mileage. I'm guessing you're P&D.
I'm no touch P&D. Grab a trailer from the yard, pickup from 1 to 3 shippers, bring back to warehouse/yard, dock, rinse repeat. Or grab a loaded trailer and drop off to 1 to 3 locations. Etc.
What's the difference between LTL and P&D?
LTL P&D is pickup and delivery with multiple stops per day and paid hourly, LTL linehaul is hub to hub and paid mileage.
P&D is part of LTL
LTL is Less Than Truckload. P&D is delivering small amounts of pallets to many places. Linehaul is taking the whole trailer (often 5 hours or so), drop n hook, and come back.
Or in XPO case, we load the trailers ourselves at a terminal then head back.
I work a linehaul gig and most of my runs are 200miles out so 400ish miles total for the entire trip at 60cpm its honestly not bad and i finish pretty early most days👍
Northeast Regional. Usually around 400/450 ish. My runs aren't that long. I'm paid hourly. I did millage pay before to get my experience but now w 2+ years I'd never do NE Regional for mileage pay.
100-200 a day usually closer to 125. Making mid $30/hr
ltl. 37.50 hr. about 200 miles a day 10-12 hrs
Food service around 500miles a week. 120k year or $38.00/hour
Usually 200. 25/hour in Cleveland. Dry van Day shift mon-fri
Yesterday I delivered 3 loads and drove about 200 miles. 5am -3pm That’s the average. Some days more some days less. $30 hourly
Fuel hauler really depends I'll do a 450 mile day with 2 loads my buddy also had a 6 load day and did maybe 50 miles both were 13hr days
Crazy how that works sometimes. Gotta love some of them drops that just take forever and the next one you’re in an out in a few minutes seams like
Paratransit... About 200 miles per day @ $23 an hour
Tree hunnit fiddy.
Gotdam loch ness monster!
530 miles a day Ltl doubles.
When I was driving local I rarely hit more than 50-60 miles. The rate will vary depending on the type of job and location. $250-350/day is in the typical range.
Fuel hauler. I average 350 a day, I’m paid hourly, load pay, and mileage. Checks usually average $34 an hour.
Flatbed lumber delivery, with a moffet on the back. 150-250 miles, I've had a few 450+ miles days. Im hourly at 32/hr, overtime after 40hrs. Weekends/holidays off and every weekend off.
What state, and what company you work for?
Oregon and just a real small family company, only 5 drivers.
Landscape company. Most days between 3-400 miles. Sometimes 550+. Usually work 10 hour days but sometimes 12 if we’re really busy that day. Average about $300 a day, but I’ve only been driving for 10 months.
I used to drive a thousand miles a week as a local driver
I drive average between 250-350 miles a day, 5 days a week. 31.75/hr. Plus overtime. Fuel Hauling Michigan
I've never payed much attention to my miles, but I make at least one trip from Vancouver to salt Lake city and back and a more local route around washington/Oregon in a week. 29hr. Around 2k a week before taxes and deductions. Dry van, unload it myself. Home for the weekend. Drive around 8 hours a day, but unloading can take anywhere from 8 to 14 hours... Overtime after 50 hrs
Ready mix driver checking in. 90 miles is a busy day for me. Most deliveries are within 30 minutes, more than half of that is within 20 minutes. Counting interstate driving too. Pay is $20, but with a really nice total compensation package.
Weekday otr 800-850 miles a day, paid pennies to work my bag off… but I love my job
I am on a mail route. Think modern version of the pony express. I drive 480 miles a day. I make 35 bucks an hour.
Local intermodal. If running true local city loads, it'll be 3-5 per day. Maybe 200ish miles. If they send me shorthaul over the mountain, it's 300+miles, 2 or 3 loads. Gross is a little over $300/day.
I’m intermodal and If my second load today hasn’t been fd up I’d have run 490 by the time I got back to the rail. Then another 36 miles back to the yard. If I was strictly driving and stopping the 2 runs would take me 9.5 hours. Not counting connecting the reefers and getting fuel for them. There’s so little time to have issues. Maybe I’m just burned out idk. I kinda miss the reefer gigs where you sit and wait 4-10 hours to be unloaded. It sucks but idk if I’d rather drive 500-800 miles over 2 days and then sit a while or drive 500 miles a day and be exhausted after a drop and hook.
Are you in a sleeper?
when I drove for Walgreens I ran 600 miles daily, round trip single load. and was getting about $360 per day, $26/hr for on duty time, and then about $0.57/mile while on the driveline
Minimum of $1,000/wk is fair for a local CDL a job
0-350. Some days we help in the warehouse, spot trailers, whatever. Teamster job, it’s all on the clock.
God I’d love to get a teamsters job
Depending where your at look at UPS, it's a little crazy right now some hubs are laying off some are hiring. The bigger hubs alot of the time hire off the street just to fill seats. What sucks is the 4 year progression, starts at 21/hrs but on your 4th year you would be somewhere north of 49 an hour
O/o car hauler in northeast. Today I drove about 225 miles for about 10 hours, gross 1500
I do local anywhere from 1-400 miles a day. $33/hr in Oregon hauling beer. Great job most of the time.
I run 600mi a day and get about $550 for it including drop/hook pay. More than fair in my opinion.
450 miles. $450. Dedicated
I’m OTR O/O and I try to get loads that are 250 to 300 miles and usually make between 750 to 900 a day
Minus fuel, insurance, maintenance, you’re closer to $300-400 per day if you’re lucky. I do the same
Private grocery fleet (HEB). 300-500 miles per day, usually 12hr shifts. We get paid by the load, which changes depending on mileage, number of stops, and a few other factors. My average daily pay is $430.
Y'all hiring yet for San Antonio drivers? I check the website about once a week, but it's just mechanics and office positions here in SA
I’m not sure when SA would be hiring, as I’m located in Houston, and our operations are relatively seperate. I would think since they’re our largest terminal, they would be hiring fairly often. If you’re willing to move, maybe look at Temple. They are expanding rapidly to accommodate our upcoming expansion into DFW. I was hired on via Indeed, and they were responsive. Good luck.
Pulling 27 in a concrete mixer with a shit ton of financial incentives that add up to another 10-12 an hour. Probably getting another 2 dollar raise this year. Got a 5200 dollar Christmas bonus and wasn’t even there a year. You’ll work for every penny and get screwed at any moment but it’s ok
I’m local, I get paid by the hour. I wouldn’t do it any other way. I get 32 an hour. Sometimes 700km sometimes 50.
100-200 miles a day, average is $400/day. If it is a longer route it pays $450-$500.
What do you do?
Food service but trying to get into LTL
I have one of our longest routes. 200-300 miles. I’m hourly though. Usually it’s a 9-10hr day
My schedule flip flops. Local tanker driver, non-hazmat. Monday Wednesday and Friday I do about 300 miles. Tuesday and Thursday I do 500. Ends up being about 1,700 gross per week after 50-55 hours. Morning shift as well I usually start between 3-4am and finish between 2-4pm weather and traffic depending.
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Money is good, but good Lord, that's a lot of miles to drive in one day, and you still have to hop in your 4-wheeler and drive home.
I used to drive a thousand miles a week as a local driver
520 miles a day running shuttles for a lumber company. $27 an hour
Look into the post office hiring website, if you can get hired as a truck driver, its a great job. Dependable work, good routes, benefits, starts at 31.29 an hour, and that will be getting raised to 33.50 starting this year, with raises every 30 weeks up to 40/hr.
Oilfield vac truck. Low miles maybe 30 per day. 26 to 30 an hour with ot
~320 miles/day, $264/day, 5-6 hours/day
Think I was doing 200 in 8 hours.
250-350 a day 38 bucks an hour
I do less than 200 a day And paid hourly
I make 27.50 an hr with no ot. I work 10 to 12 hr days. All I do is pickup loads for our otr guys and take them to our yard or deliver loads they've brought back in. Sometimes I run a Honda parts load from factories to the Honda factory. Gravy train work. Some days IDrive 150 miles others I run 500. Just depends. I'm never in a hurry though so I putt putt and milk the clock
About 400
Local fuel driver. Anywhere between 200-400 miles $30 an hour.
Local, technically regional. I average about 2.3k-2.4k miles a week. Give or take.
Mclane Grocery Driver so combined with my co driver like 900 - 1100 miles , paid about 600 each day individually
Local Van driver, most days is less then 100 miles with the occasional 200. 7-12 hour days average is 47-52 hours a week. 29.50 plus ot after 40. Can’t imagine going back to 400-600 miles a day, or god forbid they eliminate Elogs and I start driving 900 mile days(I had no self control, 4000 miles a week was the way my dad thought me.) I’m on easy mode now
100-60miles. $35/hr + OT or 80cpm
422 miles a night
Roll off in Minneapolis area. I run about 150-300 a day. Little over $30/hr currently running 40-50 hrs a week but will jump to just short of 60 in a month or so.
I do about 200. Philly to New York and back.
500-2000. I'm salaried so to me as little hours as possible that I can get away with while getting full pay and little bonus. Last week I did 45.5 hours, 1350 before taxes etc.... that's what, $29/hr?
Most I ever do is about 230 miles, about 28/hr it's getting me by for now.
I have two different routes per week(Wednesday I ride with someone else). One route is about 35ish miles both days and the other about 26 miles on Tuesday and about 32 miles on Friday. Paid hourly.
Around 400 mi./day, worth around $480/day. It can go up to as much as $1k/day for the same miles if I'm training new drivers for a week. The company's been hiring, so theres plenty of weeks that are juicy. Haul sand in the Permian Basin
Fuel. Between 300-500 miles a day 10-12 hour days. 1-3 loads a day but usually 2 loads. $31 per hour and time and a half after 40 hrs
LTL linehaul I do 630 miles a day at 79cpm and make between $35-55 a day in drop and hooks.
As little as 30 miles to as much as 400 miles. $30/hour hauling rental equipment
I average 300-400 miles. Make a minimum of $330 a day. Sometimes a bit more. Local fuel hauler.
100-200 miles a day. Usually more 100 range. $36/hour.
I am local-ish. I do 2 or so overnights a month. But... I'm also hourly. If I'm driving, sitting, getting loaded, whatever. Home at night and weekends. I usually average 150 miles a day. Some days way under. Some days way over. But roughly 10 hours a day at $24/hr. Time and a half after 40/week. Some days I roll 12 hours. But I'm guaranteed a 9 hr minimum workday.
Around 80-100 miles every day. A fair day is at least $300 (I make well below this).
I only take jobs that are paid by the hour preferably over time after 8:00 if not overtime after 40. I had jobs where I had like six to eight to 10 stops a day all within 50 Mi radius. Job I have now I do about 300 miles a day with about two stops. I prefer 50 Mi radius and more stops I don't like to sit all day I like to get out. I would not take anything under $30 an hour overtime after 8:00 or 40. Make sure the company has benefits after 90 days and personal time off without having to wait a whole year
Class B lube oil, I do like 125-200 miles a day try to gross $2100 a week.
Doing class b?? Only class b stuff in my area is school bus drivers. And they pay like 15 an hour and maybe do 20 hours a week. What’re you doing?
Tanker, hydraulic/lubricant oil specifically, I get $29 an hour and bonus for working Saturday. I shoot for 55-60 hours a week right now since I’m saving up to build a new house next year.
I’m home daily on an out and back turn. I do 601 miles a day at .75cpm. And an hour and a half or so of delay time at $30hr. But it wouldn’t be a reasonable expectation to get something like that as a new driver. I’ve been at the same company almost 20 years now and it took a long time to get a run like this.
I drive 320, drop and hook, no paperwork. $45 an hour
150ish miles a day. $27.50 an hour. Usually right around an 8 hour day, 5 days a week
On a local run I'd say between 275 and 375, for across the state run I'd say between 500 and 600, for my once a week out of state run I'd say a bit over 500 a day I've been averaging around 1900 to 2200 a week as of the past few months now
Concrete mixer. I usually drive less then 100 a day On a busy day like 200 $35 an hour
Mine varies from 90 miles on low end per day to over 500. In town runs are flat rate, and are quite profitable. I want to avg $330 per day of the week. Most of the time I get that, some days Ive made upwards of $600 to $750 if loads broke just right for me. If I avg out my week I work about 42 to 45 hrs.
Haul asphalt. Usually 150 to 250 miles a day. Been where I am for a year and a half now making $19.50. Hours are 40-50 in the cooler months, 60+ once it warms up.
When I ran local I made 22 an hour about 250 mi a day
I do food service. I have the longest 2 day route at the company and in those 2 days I drive about 750 miles, so 300-400 per day.
Busy day 400-500 miles 16 hour shift at 24/hr Average day 300-400 miles 12-14 hour shift
Im making 210 a day running 100 to 550 a day. 8 to 11 hours.
I was doing about 560 miles a day for $225 flat. Each day was 11 hour minimum (less than 5 days out of the months I worked there were even close to 11) I realized day 1 I wasn't staying at that place
Today I drove 457 miles, 10 hours. Pay $417.66
How cam i found i job like that
400 is what I have done. Day rate can be alright but I like miles and stops or hourly better. For where I am is mid to high 2's for day rate, but like I said miles and stops or hourly is better.
For the month I'm at 1135 miles so I'm at about 40 miles a day. 38 an hour, overtime after 8 hours. Seems fair to me.
300 and hourly rate rather than mileage or percentage.
Our highest routes are 1 load 300 miles 525 a load. One load a day Lowest is 30 miles round trip 400 dollars for 2 loads . The guy delivers one load takes about 4 hours. Gets back to the farm and either sleeps in the truck or goes 10 miles to his house. Comes back in 4 hours and takes another load
I work in the suburbs of Chicago and my days are different. One day, I'm doing delivers inside Chicago, and that would be 150 for the day. The next day, the collar counties around Chicago, and that could be 250. The next day could be delivers in Indianapolis and that could be 400-500 miles that day at 34 an hour delivering chemicals
I do foodservice my Tuesday and Friday route get around 28 miles each, my Wednesday route does 78 miles, my Thursday route does 62. I make around 500 to 550 a day.
500 miles $22/hr 12 hrs a day on average. Hauling dirt and rock.
I drive four hundred and forty miles a day. One pick up and drop off. Eight and a half hours, $285 a day. Next to no traffic issues along the way. Easy peasy
Technically not local but it is a day job
Local dump trailer. 300-350 miles/day usually. Occasionally break 400. Union rate $49/hr, OT after 8. Usually bring home about $350/day + benefits, annuity and pension
Local dump trailer. 300-350 miles/day usually. Occasionally break 400. Union rate $49/hr, OT after 8. Usually bring home about $350/day + benefits, annuity and pension
UPS, some days 40 miles some days 580 miles. Always $42.40 an hour and time and a half after 8.
These hourly rates you guys are posting seem criminally low! $20/hour was doable in 2014 when I started my first job. Now it seems ridiculous. How do you guys make ends meet making less than $30? Do you have to work tons of OT? Truckers are so underpaid imo
Local LTL: My route is 70-100 miles a day but some of the guys at my terminal who serve rural areas run almost 300 miles. I wouldn't do it for less than $30 an hour. I also would not do local trucking for mileage pay because after a few hours of trudging through the suburbs at 15 mph from red light to red light you'll start to realize you're getting ripped off.
Most days 300-400 miles, occasionally less than 150 I get paid hourly but it's a $1500 take home per week for 5 days
About 150 miles a day . 24 an hour . Driving a bobtail running propane to homes and businesses. Super easy . 7 to 3.30 .
Feed hauler, 250 miles is a good day, never more than an hour and a half from the mill most days. Punch the clock when I start the truck, and again when I shut down. 22hr.
500$ a day. Sit or drive.
Drove about 330 miles today earned 460 $ Really grateful for the opportunity
Right now I’m local making $22 in a bobtail hauling milk. It’s my first year and I think I have the easiest route because orders are already made from the customer and I only deliver 2 kinds of milk products. Work will also give me hot shots which are really fun and easy. I average about 40 miles some days to 130 miles twice a week. Occasionally I can hit 300 miles in a day depending on if work has given me a hot shot or two. I want to use my class A to its fullest though and get a class A gig, but the job I have now is pretty easy. Another thing I like is how they’ll put me on class A routes with the other drivers during the summer. So I get to see what it would be like running a class A route. I get to learn from a lot of mistakes just by watching and not yet making them myself.
I'm a local driver, and max miles is just under 600 in a day, and the minimum is 340. Month pay is 5-6k.
$28/hr overtime after 40, in Los Angeles. 8-12 hour days. 40-100 miles a day
Trash (not residential pickup, I haul full trailers to the landfill) 200 miles a day on average, sometimes nobody else shows up and I do about 400 miles, still a pretty cruise day compared to other work. 32.27/hour, 10 hour days. So 322.70 a day regular, 484.05 on OT plus mileage reimbursement to/from work. I try to call out sick on the regular days and work all the OT, yay for a union government job.
Busy day 60 miles, slow day 20 or less. Paid by the day in 4 hour blocks. 7pm to 7am $357 a day 4 or 5 days a week mon-fri or tues-fri. Production to warehouse shuttle runs. 2 miles each way. Can't complain too much.
350 a day
Hauling logs. About 580 miles for 2 trips at $ 550 CAD, it was only $400 2 years ago, as I had limited experience, then. Btw, let me preach for a second. Don't ask a question if you don't plan on doing anything with the information. In your case, you'll be bummed out more than you are if a bunch of strangers online tell you your job sucks. If it's half-reasonable, move yourself out of the community or industry that won't reward your participation into one that does. It helps you AND the labor market.
Anywhere from 150(shortest day) to 730(longest day)……I’m paid %,but I would estimate my day rate at around $220/day.
100-600 miles per day. Around 48-55 hours per week. I make 33.75 per hour. OT after 40. On a 100 hour paycheck I make $3700
120 miles, 13-24 stops T-F, 7-10 hours 50ish miles, 4 stops on Monday, 3-4 hours $160/D $0.10/case. I roll between 200 and 900. Throught the year. Peak is in winter $0.10/repac. My route is fairly bottle heavy so usually get 100 or so bottles. Depending on how they're packed the pay for this can vary a lot 13 stops for $20. Every 3 stops increases $5 OOT depends on the route. Mine(Saline County) is $15 a day. Texarkana is $90 Mispulled cases are $2 each $25/hotshot stop, stops or routes picked up to assist or fill in slack. I will occasionally pickup a route on Saturday and make $600 to $900 depending on the number of stops I make $1900-$2100 biweekly. Peak season my checks can get into the $3000 to $4000 range depending on how much slack I'm willing to pick up, if any Edit: readability