Estes | Over-board line-haul position questions...

One man's junk, is another man's treasure. He says he likes the money part of it, and there are several including myself that are making in access of 80k. Yet he is willing to take one mans bad attitude to heart and actually let that bad attitude dictate the rest of his life. The biggest thing about xtra board is, it is what you make of it. If you let bad attitudes influence your thoughts, then you most likely will not last. If you can think for yourself and look for more positives than negatives, you will do alright, like the rest of us 80k+ people

Made over 80k last year and remember sitting at home a bunch on the off season. This year it's been wide open plus an increase took place. I think some just are cleaver enough to sneak past the filtering and jealous enough to log on with a different name to bad mouth what they wish they were doing.
 
If I wasn't so lazy, I'd still be extraboard. Sunday start. I'm digging my little 2200 mile schedule. I'm home by 3:30 am.

We only have a couple short runs that gets us home long enough to make it worth it. The rest of them are Tuesday through Saturday or late night that uses up part of the weekend.
 
I did 65,000 my first year here running extraboard. 45.5 cpm. M-F. I often didn't get out til Tuesday. I think they start xboard at 46.75 cpm now.

Numbnuts said they were going to start him at .45cents. He must have expected them to throw in a couple bucks for fueling pay and agreed to give it back at the end of the month for some kind of monthly due
 
"Dam it" I've been doing the Harrisburg shuffle for weeks..... City kitty's working all weekends geezzz now i have to put up with Over-Board drivers taken runs!!!!!!!!!
 
That's like that place where you straw hat wearing folks would call Charlotte,NC Shuffle .....................I dont get that way anymore this new Central dispatch system.... is no good for us northeast region boys... been doing 3or 4 stops a night takes 13hours to 490 to 550 trying to stay positive up here lol.............
 
That's like that place where you straw hat wearing folks would call Charlotte,NC Shuffle .....................I dont get that way anymore this new Central dispatch system.... is no good for us northeast region boys... been doing 3or 4 stops a night takes 13hours to 490 to 550 trying to stay positive up here lol.............

I hate to rub it in but while your watching amish horse and buggies I'm reaching for my Panama Jack eye patch and reapplying my banana boat sunscreen.
 
Dammit driver! Times are changing
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I did 65,000 my first year here running extraboard. 45.5 cpm. M-F. I often didn't get out til Tuesday. I think they start xboard at 46.75 cpm now.

I went to an interview Monday and I was told .4675 to start on xtraboard top out at
.5475, waiting for the background check, hope to get the ok and start date today.
 
I did 65,000 my first year here running extraboard. 45.5 cpm. M-F. I often didn't get out til Tuesday. I think they start xboard at 46.75 cpm now.

I think the days of sitting home xtra day are long gone !!! I;m finding the best thing to do is turn the phone off till the normal start time, they seem to be abusing the "can you start early" call
 
donut, I have seen malcontents like you in the trucking business for the past 38 years. You are of the same breed that sits in a truck stop moaning about all their miefortune and bad luck when you have no one to blame but yourself. I have been here at Estes for more than 13 years and have never had a job that paid me better. the benefits are not stellar but pretty damn good. If things are as bad as you claim then why in hell do you stay here???? We, as Americans, have a choice, and it seems your choice is to malign the company that feeds your family. I hear Werner,Schneider,JB and some others are hiring, why not go there and spread your lies and discontent. JUST SAYING. BTW my gross last year was 82,000
 
Donut is happy or he wouldn't have been employed here 90 years

Some bunk rooms are dumps..I make enough to pay for motel (tax write-off next year)..most bunk rooms not bad. I slept in my truck for 15 years with different T/L carriers.
give me the bunk rooms anytime..with Estes pay and bennies I'll put up with bad bunk rooms. plus home EVERY week-end.
 
They don't know yet if the starting day will be Monday night or Sunday night. Do you work there Flyingby? Any input about the position?

Keep in mind that if it gets real slow and they let people go it will be Linehaul first, thats what they did about 3 or 4 years ago, they let go of some good guys below me, I was just lucky to keep my job, they will keep a Utility or Hub driver first even if they have not been here as long as you.
A guy on Utility that just started 3 months ago will keep his job, but say you are on the chopping block in linehaul with say 5 years, they will let you go first, this happened at more then one terminal last time.
Bigger break bulks you are pretty safe on Linehaul, but if you are one of the smaller teminals you are better off a hub or Utility driver, but those don't pay as much.
 
little dawg-inquiring about Saint Louis terminal for linehaul position. are you or anyone familiar with it? what can i expect running xboard? can u go out and stay out and run the system? STL is closer to me than CHI or INDY. Do you guys get breakdown pay, or other delay time pay? Thanks you guys put some helpful info out there!
 
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