R&L | Top Rate

[realityofitall]

I seen an advertisement for a road position and the ad indicated that you would start at top rate. What is top rate for a road driver and do you get paid for pre post fueling and do you work the dock at any of the terminals or do you just drive. Also, can you tell me about your benefits and there costs.

 

[Ted Decker trk]

I seen an advertisement for a road position and the ad indicated that you would start at top rate. What is top rate for a road driver and do you get paid for pre post fueling and do you work the dock at any of the terminals or do you just drive. Also, can you tell me about your benefits and there costs.

All road runs are a flat rate. I have a thread on here that give some concrete examples out of our Norwalk Ohio barn as of the beginning of this year. In the Midwest and most other areas road drivers do no dock work. We have lifetime bids so depending on the barn you're at it could be a long time to get a bid. Till then you float. We do not do laydowns or bag out. Unless you sign on as a team or a solo system driver all runs are out and back. Bennies are middle of the road, I was paying 40 bucks a week when I left. There is no pay for fueling, drop/hook, or anything other than breakdown pay after two hours

 

[truckinforcash]

All road runs are a flat rate. I have a thread on here that give some concrete examples out of our Norwalk Ohio barn as of the beginning of this year. In the Midwest and most other areas road drivers do no dock work. We have lifetime bids so depending on the barn you're at it could be a long time to get a bid. Till then you float. We do not do laydowns or bag out. Unless you sign on as a team or a solo system driver all runs are out and back. Bennies are middle of the road, I was paying 40 bucks a week when I left. There is no pay for fueling, drop/hook, or anything other than breakdown pay after two hours

Not in California. All hourly.

 

[Ted Decker trk]

Not in California. All hourly.

Yeah, I stand corrected. I forgot the Peoples Republic of Commiefornia. No offense to you if that's your home 20.

 

[Ted Decker trk]

Not in California. All hourly.

How's that work for teams or drivers that cross state lines. Is it based on your domicile? So a California based team is always hourly?

 

[truckinforcash]

How's that work for teams or drivers that cross state lines. Is it based on your domicile? So a California based team is always hourly?

Teams and system drivers are still flat rate. Just line drivers that return to their home domicile daily are hourly. I think that’s because most California line drivers never leave the state, except for the rare trip to Reno or Vegas.

 

[truckinforcash]

Yeah, I stand corrected. I forgot the Peoples Republic of Commiefornia. No offense to you if that's your home 20.

No offense at all, this state is something else, but it has its perks. I think that’s why they came up with the california compliance charge.

 

[Ted Decker trk]

Gotcha, thanks for the enlightenment

 

[ED FORCE ONE]

No offense at all, this state is something else, but it has its perks. I think that’s why they came up with the california compliance charge.

No winter sounds perky to me

 

[truckinforcash]

No winter sounds perky to me

I wish, if that were the case I wouldn’t have to worry about throwing chains going over donner or on I-5 over the the siskiyou mountains.

 

[ED FORCE ONE]

I wish, if that were the case I wouldn’t have to worry about throwing chains going over donner or on I-5 over the the siskiyou mountains.

RL truck cant accelerate out of a toll booth , how can it pull a mountian

 

[truckinforcash]

RL truck cant accelerate out of a toll booth , how can it pull a mountian

It won’t do it very quick, but it’ll do it. 25MPH at 2500RPM, huffin and puffin the whole way up.

 

[Ted Decker trk]

RL truck cant accelerate out of a toll booth , how can it pull a mountian

Neither can those slow a** Estes

 

[Warlock]

RL truck cant accelerate out of a toll booth , how can it pull a mountian

The old ones would. These new ones with the automatic moron transmissions barely get outtta they own way

 

[ED FORCE ONE]

The old ones would. These new ones with the automatic moron transmissions barely get outtta they own way

Automatic is dangerous when pulling into traffic the truck hesitates and then goes

 

[Warlock]

Automatic is dangerous when pulling into traffic the truck hesitates and then goes

But hey... we savin a half a teaspoon a fuel every 100K miles... so alls well

Smh...