TForce | Road driver new hire question

Six years now as a road driver and spend more time on the dock then on the road. You decide. BTW, that's in Nor Cal. Rules also different between Nor Cal drivers and So Cal drivers doing the same number of miles a night. Honestly, think real hard before you jump.
 
Great info guys... I live in Chicago areaI was thinking of applyin to UPS frt...I am 5 mins away from the terminal by Halstead /94.... Don't seem like I would be working much though...
 
Great info guys... I live in Chicago areaI was thinking of applyin to UPS frt...I am 5 mins away from the terminal by Halstead /94.... Don't seem like I would be working much though...

I don't know. My TM hired an "extra" driver a few weeks ago. Not only is he "Extra" (you know, on call 900 driver) line driver, he's also a dock worker and a P&D driver. He gets more hours a week then I do and I'm full time.
 
Whatever you decide to do good luck. Just be aware that we are going into the slow season. I only worked two days this week as a road driver and I have at least 15 guys below me.
 
for a driver the slow season may not be as slow depending on if there is any amazon warehouses near your barn. i"m a city driver at hrs and were working 10+ hours a day with weekend work available if we want.
amazon's busy season in winter which works well because they been keeping us very busy running their freight.
it seems hrs is one of the only barns that dont allow road drivers to run city work,so if there is amazon warehouses around chicago you prob will be working..
 
I'm a road driver at hrs and we run for Amazon as well. I did it last year at this time. This week was just extremely slow for the bottom of the road board at hrs.
 
I'm a road driver at hrs and we run for Amazon as well. I did it last year at this time. This week was just extremely slow for the bottom of the road board at hrs.
the city super said otherwise so thats how i thought it was . every saturday there's 4 or 5 of us city guys double turning hazelton amazons for several months now.
and another 4 or 5 running sets to carlisle warehouses.
they have most of us pedal drivers running a carlisle set before we can even leave with our pedal in the mornings.
 
That's just wrong. I guess it's cheaper to run a city guy with a set of doubles by the hour to Hazleton than a road driver at mileage.
 
That's just wrong. I guess it's cheaper to run a city guy with a set of doubles by the hour to Hazleton than a road driver at mileage.

I don't know how far Hazleton is from your terminals but a delivery or a pickup at a customer should always be done by a city driver, that is part of our job. That has been made clear out of our terminal. Of course our Amazon warehouse is just 15 miles from our terminal.
 
Completely agree if it is to a customer. However, if it is to a UPS Terminal, then road drivers should be running it. It is at least 90 miles from Hrs to Hazleton.
 
I don't know how far Hazleton is from your terminals but a delivery or a pickup at a customer should always be done by a city driver, that is part of our job. That has been made clear out of our terminal. Of course our Amazon warehouse is just 15 miles from our terminal.

I would say Hazelton is Scranton work,not Harrisburgs work. But since it's volume and Scranton is most likely not as staffed driver wise as HRS is, it probably makes sense. But I think it should be road work considering the miles to Hazelton. It has to be about 80 miles one way. JMO
 
Completely agree if it is to a customer. However, if it is to a UPS Terminal, then road drivers should be running it. It is at least 90 miles from Hrs to Hazleton.

I agree completely, if it is terminal to customer then it should be p and d, if it is terminal to terminal it should be road driver.
 
That's just wrong. I guess it's cheaper to run a city guy with a set of doubles by the hour to Hazleton than a road driver at mileage.
hazelton amazon is rail boxes not pups, only the 2 carlisle warehouses are pups. at least out of the ones we run.

i can hardly see it being cheaper, the 39 and change a hour we get for ot to run it should be more then mileage or straight time they would pay a road driver.
 
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I would say Hazelton is Scranton work,not Harrisburgs work. But since it's volume and Scranton is most likely not as staffed driver wise as HRS is, it probably makes sense. But I think it should be road work considering the miles to Hazelton. It has to be about 80 miles one way. JMO

at hrs the mileage thing isnt a issue,the clearfield guys,both williamsport drivers and several others drive far more miles then it is from hrs to hazelton amazon.heck our williamsport 1 driver goes as far as 4 or 5 miles from the new york state line.
SCR did have all of it but it was taking longer for amazon to get because we would load it at hrs to go to scr, then get broke and reloaded at scr to go to amazon. SCR guys still go there but they only take freight that comes from new england pretty much. anything that comes to hrs gets ran by hrs.
as you said scr is just a very small end of line terminal that dont have anywhere near the people to service all of it.


its really nothing new as far as covering for smaller terminals. HRS covers several pickups that are well into york pa area . duie pyle,international truck,DaS,scotts are a few of the ones i can think off off the top of my head. like scranton ,york don't have the manpower to service the customers so they gave those to HRS to get.
 
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