Estes | Line haul / Team Question?

That's my whole goal, payoff my house ASAP then I can be like you and work 35 hrs weekly (if u want to call it work)

Running team sounds very appealing, as far as the $$ and not sitting in a hotel for 20+ hrs. Ran into a team this week and they said they each gross $90k!! I'll probably just stay put though, like I said I've run team before and didn't love it
I've run team as a fill in for this company. When the week was over, I really felt used up and couldn't imagine doing it again for another week. I'm a very light sleeper and don't sleep well in a moving truck. Team may pay more but for me it was half of .61 cents for every mile because I felt every mile. I really didn't make more money either. Might be because I'm a :butt kiss: but all I did on extraboard was run south Florida and back 95% of the time.
 
I can't remember the last time I used my sunpass, nothing but northeast for me for the last couple of months. Gotta love hitting every terminal in jersey in one night, don't know who I pissed off in central. Guess next time I talk to them I'll give em your name, maybe then I'll get down there and stay there all week.
 
I can't remember the last time I used my sunpass, nothing but northeast for me for the last couple of months. Gotta love hitting every terminal in jersey in one night, don't know who I pissed off in central. Guess next time I talk to them I'll give em your name, maybe then I'll get down there and stay there all week.

Yep, it sounds like you're in desperate need of some help. I didn't know we had terminals in Jersey. Might need to call legree and tell him you're friends with me. I'll shoot him a text in the morning. I'll see if he can get the shop to get you some chrome wheel caps also. Should be all set after tomarrow
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You must've had too many of them margaritas there, dew.
That's ok, somebody has to move the freight in jersey guess I'm the man for the job. Lol
 
Who decides your running mate? Just wondering, i was thinking if the company did that wouldnt sit well. Just for tbe fact of puttibg my life in another mans hands while im sleeping and hes driving, or do thay let the man with the highest senority pick his running mate.....
 
Who decides your running mate? Just wondering, i was thinking if the company did that wouldnt sit well. Just for tbe fact of puttibg my life in another mans hands while im sleeping and hes driving, or do thay let the man with the highest senority pick his running mate.....
They leave it up to the driver.
 
Good to know, thanks mildew, im justing hoping for a good turn out with this contract at ups freight, but one never knows, when my president hasent said one word about it since it got voted down
 
Who decides your running mate? Just wondering, i was thinking if the company did that wouldnt sit well. Just for tbe fact of puttibg my life in another mans hands while im sleeping and hes driving, or do thay let the man with the highest senority pick his running mate.....

in Chicago you do choose your team driver. You will not drive teams unless you want to.===== I wouldn't do it.==== No team ever lasted in Chicago. They do not know how to use them!
 
Dang! Chicago sounds like it's not the terminal to be. I was treated pretty good each time I was there. I remember two sweeties with dark hair and brown eyes that made sure my trip sheet was faxed to the right terminal. I didn't have to tell them anything or switch my coffee from one hand tothe other. They treated me pretty good and since I'm from the south, that's where they sent me when my break was over.
 
in Chicago you do choose your team driver. You will not drive teams unless you want to.===== I wouldn't do it.==== No team ever lasted in Chicago. They do not know how to use them!

Yeah, cause they flooded the teams with steady runs from Chicago to Harrisburg and West Middlesex.. No team driver wants those short hooks, they want 1500 or 2000 mile hooks... Basically, they are lazy, like me.....:)
 
yard a mess. Even though plenty of room. Spotters just lazy. Night time dispatch usually late. Lots of smoke breaks by dispatch daytime. LOTS!

028 yard has to be about the worst in the system; you're right plenty of room, they just don't know or don't want to use it correctly. Always get good hooks out of there though.
 
Go online and apply or apply at your nearest Estes Terminal.... It would be better to apply at your hometown Estes Terminal so you can shake the TM's hand and meet him...

Thx, Checked out the website says there not hiring in my area. I believe they do hire teams at the Den terminal but not sure. So do you have to get hired at that terminal? Or can they hire you at any area but run you home in your area? Thanks for any info.
 
Thx, Checked out the website says there not hiring in my area. I believe they do hire teams at the Den terminal but not sure. So do you have to get hired at that terminal? Or can they hire you at any area but run you home in your area? Thanks for any info.
Good question. Back when they did all the layoffs, many terminals were cutting drivers even though several were hiring, including Denver. I know a guy that transferred there to avoid getting put on the streets. I doubt they would hire a team from a non hiring terminal to fill the gap at another.
 
Good question. Back when they did all the layoffs, many terminals were cutting drivers even though several were hiring, including Denver. I know a guy that transferred there to avoid getting put on the streets. I doubt they would hire a team from a non hiring terminal to fill the gap at another.

Yeah, they ended up here.......


Pay it forward brutha........
 
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