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Deli clerk at Wal- Mart, $11.25/ hr. You riggers should be proud.
Be cool on your stool though

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Yeah, but that job requires that a person shower and shave, keep their hair clean and cut, and generally look like a decent human being. Which of course rules out most BBRs......
And they probably won't let a body work over 100 hours a week either......
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At most that job will pay $360 per week, and with Wal Marts policies on working a 2nd job you will have one heck of a time finding a 2nd job if you want it.
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Yeah, but if you could work the same hours most of us do you'd make $46,800 a year and never have to hear someone whisper "I aint got no pannies on" repeatedly over a CB radio.

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Good luck finging a local job that will work you over 40 hours a week. My wife dose deli at Wal Mart. She earns a little more then you said. She started a little lower then that. She gets 40 hours. No more. She gets in trouble if she is over even 5 mins.
Now if you can find one. Like I did that pays you time and a half over 40, and still works you 60-70 (anything over 60 is double)hours a week with Sat and Sun double time. You would have a good case. They are very hard to come by. Or you get lucky (like I kinda did) I walk into one looking for a job.
I have a job that pays a little more then I earned over the road. I can say this. Most OTR drivers could not do it. I bust my but all day.
I run line haul now. That is easy. I do one peddle day a week (I did 5 before). That is Monday.
Today I took a 15 stop run. Did Chatham, Hand unload 3900 pounds with a dock. 2nd to 13th were in springfeild. Some were easy some were hard. The 55 gallon drums of oil that weight 450 pounds each. No problem. I put them were ever you want them with out a dock. The 6000 pound fork lift you ordered and YOU DO NOT HAVE A DOCK. That poses a problem. I took care of it.
The 60 cases of fiber glass you ordered fo inside delivery. That means I take it inside. Like a house or commercial building with no dock.
The 4000 pounds of Bar be que sauce for you part time business out of you house. Only your 65 year old granny is there to help unload it in the rain. So I have to take it inside so we do not have a freight claim.
It gose on and on, It gets worse.
If you come back to early, or you are not fast at getting a trailer unloaded and reloaded. You get to come back and work on the dock full time. They will send a truck after your freight. Till you are ready to be a driver. It takes alot here to have to work the dock. I came home tonight and had a spilled pallet. I was going to restack it. I was told no. That is not your job. That is Tims job. One of the dock workers. I helped him any way. I should have secured it better. Only took a few mins.
I have to do the one day because I am still way down on the senority list. I do not mind it. Some days things go great. Just most road drivers would get mad and loose a customer. Here waiting 15 mins to get unloaded gets the dispatchers fired up. I mean fired up.
Went to walgreens. Had 2 pallets of RX. Been there 30 mins. Still in the dock. I am not allowed to go in and unload it. I call. Was told to have then refuse load. I have 10 other stops. They said we need it. Boss said tell them give you back the paper work and let you leave. They said no. He calls them and blows up. He is known for that. Tells them the billing rates. They do not care. It is pre paid.
He calls the shipper. Shipper calls them. They were real nice. 250 a hour that LTL truck was billing after 30 ins. They will not sell to them for 2 weeks. I was gone once she got off the phone. She hung up signed my paper and I was gone.
Got back in, was told how sorry they were that I got held up at WalGreens they are dropping all shipment to them. They have been having problems for a long time. I could really care less. I get paid by the hour.
Now the line haul. I like that. Come in. Truck is running hooked and ready to go. You grab your clip board drive to the switch spot. Drop/hook and come back. Park the truck and go home. Many road drivers would like that. Just many places you have to earn that by busting your back. Not all, just seems like most. Also. It is done at night. Many driver do not like a night run. I do. Leave out for Chicago at 9pm and get back home at 6-7 am. That is the run I like.
We take bids for our runs. We are rebidding the year next week. I hope to get a full time line haul, but you never know. We have guys with 18+ years that still peddle freight every day. All it takes is them bidding and I have no haul at all.
You want a locl gig try Sysco Foods, Lady Baltimore Foods, or a local Teamster org like a Grc warehouse. They are good places for folks with no OTR. They do not want OTR folks. They want folks that will work and bust their buts.
When I applied here and ABF. Both said the same thing. You have plenty of driving experiance. Its just your OTR days. This is not otr blaa blaa blaa. You unload /load what ever. Same time, alot of time you get unloaded.
Also, we get almost no directions. We get addresses. Sometimes a phone number for a home delivery or a "special delivery". It takes a second. I was luck and learned alot running OTR. I learned the simple things. Like the way streets and adv run. Subdivisions and so on. Still, I buy every steet guide I can lay my hands on.202 N Main Street
Summerfield Il 62289
TRUCK PARKING AVAILABLE!

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daytrade
why would anyone want that job ?
sounds crappy

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It pays ok and gets me home each night. Like I said I prefer the line haul.
I couldn't take OTR anymore and had to do something different.
Over all I like this now.202 N Main Street
Summerfield Il 62289
TRUCK PARKING AVAILABLE!

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As a O/O I hook onto a dedicated chassis / container at PLANT A drive 350 miles to PLANT B unhook pull over hook up to another chassis / container and head 350 miles back to PLANT A.
Home most nights ( live 175 miles from each plant ) , no weekends can run days or nights , 1 guy loves driving at night , so I get mostly day run, the other 2 trucks are owned by the same O/O and he rotates his drivers as he sees fit.
My fuel is capped at $1.49 / gallon and we get a full benefit package as part of our UNION contract.

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Hmmm... must be perspective. Spending 24hrs per day for weeks on end
in numerous areas with "strange" people in less than desirable conditions
may prove to be crappy. Judgeing by the 120% turnover rate the OTR
existence could be classified as crappy by the general population.
Spending mindless hours driving continuously from place to place,day after day dealing with mindless people has proven to be crappy for millions.
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Yes seeing how it affected you before you retired
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Per hour Daytrader, per hour.

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Cute but did you have something intelligent too add?
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I love peddling freight, nothing better. Sure its work, but it suits me well. I wouldnt do the linehaul, as I hate just driving.
Dont discount local work untill you have had the oportunity. Yea its work, but without it, I would be a fat otr/dweller slob. If you had met me, you know the only difference would be I would be a slob.


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Ashpault, It is hard work. It is easy just hard. If that makes sense.
I like the express doors. Just pull in, backinto a dock and go in and take you pallet jack and take the pallet off. Have then sign here and away you go. Just it is not always this way for me.
Today, I was cut from line haul forthe day. I am the third truck. They only needed two so I get a call at 4am. Can you come in today. The 3rd truck will be cut. No problem. Be in at 730 am.
Had 13 stops. Most were pretty bad, but I did not get held up. Worst of all were two. One was a place that aonly at 20-28 foot straight truck should go into. I was in a 48 with a single axle tractor. Got in made the stop, spent 30 mins trying to get out. It happens.
The second was to a farm in the middle of no were. I go luck and found a back roader that needed somthing to do. I followed him to the guys place. Black top for 4 miles, Tar and chip for 6, gravel for 8 then dirt farm roads for 4.
I had plenty of room to work, I just NEVER would have found the place. The cell phone did not work in this area.
Over all it is not bad. I like it. I just miss the road. I really do.202 N Main Street
Summerfield Il 62289
TRUCK PARKING AVAILABLE!

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man, the rural route. God bless the new guy, LOL!!!
Why do you miss the road? give it a couple months, the peddle route will be better than any ole linehaul. That and it pays better around here.
Also, dont forget, nothing beats kissing the wife daily