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Originally Posted by feederfred
(Post 502800)
If you look closely at the trucks, you will see that they are a contract carrier leased to Sherwin Williams. The drivers are not Sherwin Williams employees. I think the company is called CTL Lines or something like that. SW recently closed it's LA distribution center and moved some of it to Sparks.
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Partially true. I drove for CTS (Contract Transportation Systems) based out of Reno for about 4 years. While it appears to be a separate company it is actually just a subsidiary of Sherwin Williams. Just an accounting procedure, all my benefits and pay checks came from Sherwin Williams.
Now, back to the original question. It was one of the best paying and better driving jobs I ever held. They don't pay strictly by the hour or by the mile. They pay activity pay and everything you do is compensated. Somethings are flat rated, some mileage, some hourly. When I worked there I was based in Portland and they brought loads out of Reno to me that I would deliver in Seattle or meet the truck in Eugene and deliver in Portland. Once a month or so they would have me go down to Reno so they could remember what I looked like. The last time I worked for them was in 2005 and maybe things are different now but I would expect to make at least 60 if not 70k a year for them running the western states.
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