Truck Driving Jobs

Cluggy619 · #1 11-01-2006, 02:13 PM

Me, myself, I drive for a local fuel transport company, and make a good buck doing it. I'm home everynight, with 2 days off per week.

As I look at the terminals where I load up, I always see other companies looking for drivers within the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. And not just for tanker yankers, but for all.....

And that leads me to ask about driving force in your city. Are their alot of jobs for drivers, or very few?

And what cities are the best for a driver to find work?

-FlyByNight- · #2 11-01-2006, 03:30 PM

There are TONS of driving jobs in SW WY now, but you better bring a strong back, work ethic and love for cold, mud, snow, wind and chaining up in them. :lol:

stinkyfinger · #3 11-01-2006, 04:22 PM

I just got laid off from a company here in Oh. I hauled for thier G.M. account. U.A.W. member, 18.75 perhr, O.T. after 8hr, Every holiday off and paid that G.M. had. 40 hr minium gaurenteed. Great low cost bennies. ALL GONE NOW!!! I'm just startin to check into other positions.But something tells me I won't find anything close to what I lost.Thank God for unemployment and cheap vodka :cry: I kinda knew this was coming and a few months ago I called a local company bout thier ad, and to switch trailers around at various locations around the metro area (we used to call that "shagging" trailers) and basically just take them back to thier yard,they were gonna pay me...
8.50 per hour!!!!!! I was making that much back in the early 80's in a foundry.So I guess I'm gonna be in for quite the shock when I get serious bout lookin,which I'm starting to now I guess.There are plenty of jobs around here,but the thing is,finding the job YOU want.Yea I can go out and make 40cpm and up but I don't want to go bac otr.I want to get pd. for what I do.Companies will tell you,yea make 50-70,000 here,what they wont tell you is how many hrs you have to put in to get that. My main question to companies I apply to (if they pay per mile),is gonna be HOW MANY HOURS PER WEEK will it ake me to make that amount.Bottom line,plenty o'drivin jobs,but is thier one right for you to fulfill your needs.That's a question everybody should ask themselves

Uturn2001 · #4 11-01-2006, 04:45 PM

Local driving jobs around here are few and far between unless you want to commute an hour or more each way every day.

What local driving jobs there are pay between 8-10 an hour to start.

fireman932003 · #5 11-01-2006, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Uturn2001

Local driving jobs around here are few and far between unless you want to commute an hour or more each way every day.

What local driving jobs there are pay between 8-10 an hour to start.

Like wise here in Southern Indiana. There are very few if any local gigs here. The ones that are here and pay good never have a opening because nobody ever leaves!

Ian Williams · #6 11-01-2006, 04:59 PM

Here in Northern NV the market is tilted in favor of drivers. Construction is still running hot with all the local flat-bedding, dirt hauling and such that goes with it. Plenty of prevailing wage roadwork as well.

Nevada is one of the few states that have actually added Manufacturing jobs in the last few years.

Local gigs for someone with a clean class A with all the bells and whistles run $14-16hr starting. There are a lot of warehouses here that serve Northern CA.

I moved here on a Monday and was hired as an apprentice/dockworker by Con-Way by Thursday.

When you look at the paper in Detroit it has a bunch of want ands for WY.

Malaki86 · #7 11-01-2006, 06:58 PM

In my area, the local gigs are the same - far and few between. There are some though, if you're willing to work 18hrs per day in a truck that is illegal to drive through a scalehouse (I've had the boss tell me that). The jobs that are worth having, well, it's one of those 'It's not who you know, it's who you blow' deals...

yoopr · #8 11-01-2006, 07:21 PM

Lots of trucking jobs up here-I haven't even applied but get offers.

driverboy · #9 11-01-2006, 08:22 PM

I can not see driving a big truck for under 10 bucks an hour, are the pay rates that varied across regions?

Walk ons with a year or 2 under their belt in Michigan/Ontario can expect $15-$20 bucks an hour and are crying for drivers.

Malaki86 · #10 11-01-2006, 08:29 PM

My last local job paid $8.00 per hr. I hauled construction/paving equipment to/from job sites. I usually started the day @ 5am (to have the equipment on-site for the days work) and usually finished at 8-10pm.

The truck was a '85-'95 Ford (only 1 truck, but that many years to make 1 running truck). There was one working guage, the air guage, and that had no warning lights/buzzer. The trailer was a beaver-tail that had been re-welded back together so many times you could barely tell where the original metal was. Also, the truck had brakes only on the front axle and one of the drive axles. The trailer had very little service brakes and no parking brakes (air trailer).

Any time I'd mention any defects to the foreman or the mechanic, their normal response was 'ya - it's been like that for years'. And that's with every defect I listed above, including others, like the fact you couldn't turn the heat off, the passenger side window wouldn't stay up, or that you couldn't open the passenger side door (from inside or out).

Needless to say, I was more than happy to get into my '07 International after that.