| Mr. Ford95 |
07-25-2018 11:46 PM |
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Originally Posted by Ndaggs
(Post 542405)
I’m considering the same position I work for Pepsico driving a bay truck it’s the only driving job I have had. I’m pretty new to OTR or dedicated. Is it a decent started or can you make good money. I bring home about 800 850 a week working damn near 60
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If it's with Schneider, you will be expected to run close to your 70 every week. We only have the Sterling, Illinois DC, London, Ky DC, Washington Courthouse and Wintersville Ohio DCs for Schneider. We lost Henderson a few years ago and just lost Gordonsville, Va and Bedford, Pa a month ago. I was on pace to make 50-60K doing a 5/2 schedule. You will have to pull a 34 during every holiday and expected to work every holiday. I averaged 1800 miles a week out of Gordonsville. Some 34 restart weeks I would hit 2200-2500 a week. You will be expected to try to do 2 runs for every 14 hours on duty depending on if your a night driver or day driver and which freight you will run. Dry Grocery typically has longer runs and so you will only complete 1 run. Your paid a base cpm rate. If it's under 50 miles total for the run while loaded, extra $25. Each stop is $15 AFTER the 1st stop. Return trip, base pay cpm. Over 50 miles, you see an extra .08 cpm on top of your base pay. Over 100 miles it's an extra .04 cpm. Over 200 miles, base pay only plus stop pay. Backhaul pay is an extra $30 plus mileage. Even get the extra cpm if its under the miles I just listed back to the DC. Get base pay only from last store to the backhaul facility. I typically grossed $1,000 a week, some of our drivers were grossing $1500 and up a week.
Easy as pie! You get your route, find your trailer already loaded and rock on! Get to the store, store unloads. Your job is to open the trailer door and pull a sticker tab off the pallet as it comes off. The store is responsible for removing the pallets. If you have a reefer, you must open and close the bulkheads as needed. Piece of advice, try to dress spiffy And treat them with respect at the stores. I rarely had an issue doing that, some stores even mistook me for a Private Fleet driver. Once you hook to that trailer, your considered the same as a Private Fleet driver and so the stores are to treat you as they treat them.........doesn't always happen. You will typically average 3 stores a run with reefers. Dry grocery, 2 stoppers are typical with drop n hooks! Just always demand to check the supposed empty your picking up! |
