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I was talking to a guy who's been here 9 years and he was saying he ran line haul a couple years ago and hit $83k. As a new guy at our terminal running line haul you'd probably be around $55k and work way way harder than the senior guys. But that's 5 days a week, home every night. |
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Also home every night as well... Timberwolf |
I bet I'm not the only reefer driver sobbing as I read this thread. :( ;)
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LTL is not for everyone. Your early years are a mixed bag of covering vacations, dock work, waiting by the phone, layoffs, irregular hours. Generally feast or famine. The job gets easier and ironically more lucrative the more seniority you get. Our top guys have set schedules Mon-Fri, home every day and routinely make 100k. I just took a bid run working aprox 45 hrs/week which will pay me around 80k. Took me 7 years to get it. I've made over 70k the last three years as a cover/extra board driver working basically on call. Most of the work is Mon-Fri. Weekends are volunteer basis. Most road work is nights. New guys start around .40/mi and scratch and claw their way to 40-50k. Top rate is .66/mi and takes 3 years to get. Then its all about what your seniority will get you. Must have doubles/triples endorsement, hazmat, clean background and CDL. 80% of our guys make 75-100k. The bottom 20% make 40-60k. No one quits these jobs so its hard to move up. Well, bottom guys quit when they're starving. Otherwise it takes a retirement, illness, death or firing.
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There are other specialized areas of this business where drivers can earn up to or more than $100,000, as you can see from some of the others who have posted. You don't start out with these high wages. Like everything worthwhile, it takes time to get to that level. Most drivers are content pulling a van around and earning $40-50,000/year. Others make the decision to get into some of the more specialized areas or to get with one of the major LTL carriers. It isn't easy earning top money in this industry. Any time you get into the higher income earners in this industry, you will work hard for your money.
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