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Hi there all,
new to this forum, someone over at truckersreport told me to report here cuz you all have a better rundown on ltl and linehaul type stuff... certainly seems you do, what with the dedicated company-specific boards and all...
I'm 9 months solo, work for eastern freightways but running linehaul for nemf which is the sister company, realizing that the 38cpm I get will go up to 40cpm, then stop while the nemf guys get 53ish cpm... and no you can't switch otherwise I'd be looking to do that...
I heard od is good, did my research, two main questions:
1. cpm start and finish? does anyone know the payscale? I found only a few posts on the web... it said low 50s to start and low 60s max after a few years... sounds good. called them, of course they "don't talk pay up front". Other companies advertise it right on the truck, but I guess ODFL is... well, does it depend on experience?
2. I'm in manchester, nh about 90 mins from the nh odfl terminal BUT only 30mins from the dracut, ma terminal. would they hire me on?
any other info about odfl would be cool... from what I gather and see of them out on the road it's a lotta doubles, some guys are back every night, others a few times a week... not much sitting aorund... do linehaul guys work the docks or is that just p&d?
would I be dumb to do p&d? I was doing otr for eastern before I switched to linehaul... never touched a pallet, not once. so they'd have you sit around and around... but local guys get hourly, right?
I'm not very strong... I kinda hate exerting myself physically, actually. but then again it's all electronic jacks and you're using equipment, right?
learning to operate a forklift would be useful. what's p&d even pay? honestly the cities... I can handle cities, it just kinda scares me to death at times because, ironically I'm kinda dumb at navigation... I'm good at just holding the wheel for hours and hours and once I've run a route 20 times it's in my head... but I'm not one of those people with a photographic, "did it once and remember it", memory. I've gone into NYC dozens of times in my 9 months of driving and each time I seem to get lost... I make it there, but I do get kinda lost...
I know this is a lotta thoughts... just wanted to throw it all out there since I *seem* to be in the right forum to ask this.
new to this forum, someone over at truckersreport told me to report here cuz you all have a better rundown on ltl and linehaul type stuff... certainly seems you do, what with the dedicated company-specific boards and all...
I'm 9 months solo, work for eastern freightways but running linehaul for nemf which is the sister company, realizing that the 38cpm I get will go up to 40cpm, then stop while the nemf guys get 53ish cpm... and no you can't switch otherwise I'd be looking to do that...
I heard od is good, did my research, two main questions:
1. cpm start and finish? does anyone know the payscale? I found only a few posts on the web... it said low 50s to start and low 60s max after a few years... sounds good. called them, of course they "don't talk pay up front". Other companies advertise it right on the truck, but I guess ODFL is... well, does it depend on experience?
2. I'm in manchester, nh about 90 mins from the nh odfl terminal BUT only 30mins from the dracut, ma terminal. would they hire me on?
any other info about odfl would be cool... from what I gather and see of them out on the road it's a lotta doubles, some guys are back every night, others a few times a week... not much sitting aorund... do linehaul guys work the docks or is that just p&d?
would I be dumb to do p&d? I was doing otr for eastern before I switched to linehaul... never touched a pallet, not once. so they'd have you sit around and around... but local guys get hourly, right?
I'm not very strong... I kinda hate exerting myself physically, actually. but then again it's all electronic jacks and you're using equipment, right?
learning to operate a forklift would be useful. what's p&d even pay? honestly the cities... I can handle cities, it just kinda scares me to death at times because, ironically I'm kinda dumb at navigation... I'm good at just holding the wheel for hours and hours and once I've run a route 20 times it's in my head... but I'm not one of those people with a photographic, "did it once and remember it", memory. I've gone into NYC dozens of times in my 9 months of driving and each time I seem to get lost... I make it there, but I do get kinda lost...
I know this is a lotta thoughts... just wanted to throw it all out there since I *seem* to be in the right forum to ask this.