They gave you some BS information. It's nowhere remotely close to 20%.
I imagine they were trying to convey that it's around 80% drop/hook, with the other 20% being live unload.
(That's a pretty rosy scenario to me, I'd say more like 65/35, but anyway...). In a year and a half, I've had
one driver unload. Six pallets, 500 pounds each, took ten minutes. I got $17.50/hr with a two hour minimum, so I would take that $35 for ten minutes every day of the week if I had the choice.[/quote]
Drop/Hook is not always the panecea that it is purported to be. You frequently wind up dropping a trailer that you had in proper operating condition, to swap out for another trailer that may have frozen brake lines, mechanical deficiencies, lights out or missing, tires that are either flat, blown, or seriously underinflated, or registration papers that have expired.
There is a myriad of other potential problems as well.
Live load/unload??
I'd hop back into the sleeper & cat nap!! Fingerprinting?? I never touched any freight that I hauled which can be good, but also very bed as well; I came off of the road and spent the next two years battling high blood pressure & high cholesteral levels, as result of the long, but rather sedentary hours that I spent driving.
I never drove for CFI, but overall, their equipment looks very good, and from what I know of them, they & Melton Flatbedders are a clear cut above their competition.
IMHO, with one exception, their drivers always stood out as top notch as well.