[ronjon619]

Originally Posted by Stainless

At Allied Systems if you can't load your truck in under 45 minutes after 3 months they off-load you!

That's intresting. The Allied trucks that load in San Diego take longer than that, 45 minutes is an unrealstic number for a 10 car load. That's less than 5 minutes for each car. Our fastest guy puts 10 on in about 90 minutes.

[ronjon619]

Originally Posted by ddog

That may knock that $1.12 O/O rate

That's not an O/O rate.......That's a company drivers rate.

[ronjon619]

Originally Posted by MINewbie

Im not sure what their expectations are, but 45 minutes sounds very unsafe to me. It would take longer than that just to round up your vehicles. Its a union position, so im sure you are allowed sufficient time to load.
The way i understood it, you make the same as the rest of the drivers, but it takes a lot longer to load and unload being new. The more experience you have, the quicker you can do this and the more time you spend driving. Driving =$$. The way they have the pay worked out, your loading pay is factored into your mileage pay. So technically you make nothing for loading the cars until you make the delivery. But the average first year pay is $45K-$60K, so it balances itself out.

This info is pretty much right on the money. Every company pays their drivers differently. I've seen comapny drivers paid anywhere from % of load to hourly, to cpm's. If your looking for a strictly local gig, get with a company that will pay you a good rate to load and unload. For insatnace, we have guys that do 3 loads a day and don't drive more than 120 miles and make great $$$$$. They make all their money in loading and unloading and only deliver their cars 20-30 miles away. Then turn around a grab another. If your only making 1.10cpm and nothing for load and unloading those 20 mile delivers suck. But if your making $100 to load and unload and .95cpm you can make a killing on the short runs and be home.

[ronjon619]

This guy had a good thread on being a new Jack in this industry.
http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/...602&highlight=

He was doing alot of auto auction work and that is a completly different monster. But he documented what a new car hauler goes through. From what I read, he is going through all the bumps and bruises everyone goes through. You should take a look at this.