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Originally Posted by tbrown
Okay, what the heck is P&D? :?
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Pickup and Delivery. You punch-in at the local terminal in the morning/afternoon and start doing deliveries. Then sometime around noon or so (as you empty out your trailer), you then do pickups. Once your full, you bring your trailer back to the terminal where it gets unloaded. Depending on how the terminal is run, you may work the dock in the morning or in the evening or both. Or even run linehaul if needed.
We have alot of trailers staged at various customers around the area, so alot of times I'll finish my peddle run and come back and hook to an empty trailer and do a drop/hook at a customer.
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Also, other than avoiding the beverage distributors, what kind of things should you look FOR in LTL?
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Try to get on with either UPS Freight or FedEx Freight or FedEx National. ABF is good, too. I wouldn't do Conway. Right now, the big union companies (Yellow, Roadway, USF) are having some issues, but those companies have the best pay/bennies hands down. You pay $0 for your medical benefits and excellent company-paid pension. I know some guys getting $4k/month just from their Teamsters pension. Talk to FeederFred, he'll tell you.
The only issue with LTL is that being on the bottom of the totem pole kinda sucks. Starting out, you could be on-call (waiting on the phone for work), working the dock, crazy shifts, layoffs, etc. You're generally not gonna walk into a 9-5 run, but once you gain some seniority you'll never quit. I know guys who've put 10, 20, 30+ years in. How many OTR companies can say that?
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We live in San Diego so I'm sure a lot of runs are to LA, etc.
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That's a great spot to get on with just about any LTL carrier. I used to live in Oceanside for awhile after I got out of the Air Force.
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Originally Posted by templedawg
Get a local job and have a life and time for your family is the only way to go.
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Yeah, OTR is a complete hosejob. All those working/waiting/driving for free activities add up: log 70, work 80-100, paid for 50.
I'll never work for mileage pay again. Clock time beats mileage pay any way you slice it.