When I hear the word line haul driver to me it means Union truck driver
Line haul driver leaving point A to B back to A and in that trip you made great cash. The turns or trips for example say may be Harrisburg to Toledo or charlotte get to terminal. Then break down your radio box stash it in holding area grab your suitcase hop into hotel cab van and go rest up in the hotel motel the company pays for and do it again in ten hours , years ago you could skate on eight hours rest.
The second example in which I preferred was running district it used to be a cash cow example say leave Harrisburg maybe with a set of trailers or a 53 foot box. Leave Harrisburg to Brooklyn yard guys busy so you break down and make up a new set of pups two wagons.
You’re on the clock hourly working pins king pins to drop out trailers and build a new set is maybe 8-10 pins sometimes more and in that you get paid .25 per pin so in theory that’s 2 to 2.5 hours of pay that you can do in maybe half to three quarters hour so your ahead of game. Or if the yard guy does work you just sit in drivers area and get paid and wait, and head out.
Most nights district were anywhere between 450 - 550 mileage and especially on weekends when the end of line terminal were closed you did all the work. At times it was 14 hour day old Dot rules 15 hours and I remember say leave Harrisburg to Brooklyn out to Long Island call into dispatch say leaving the island. Dispatch asking from your home barn can you do you have the hours to swing through say Allentown to drop that one out and get these trailers bring them back.
Say under old contract back in 2018 I think it was
Mileage was what .62 cents mile clock time was $23 hour at my old freight outfit. Between mileage and clock time you were making low end $300- $380 to at times over $400 night
Here at brown it’s still cash cow for someone with high school diploma buster brown where we are paid hourly I like this much better yet.
And on top of working your ass off 5to6 trips week you had union protection from management you have great medical paid from two hour union dues month and you were getting cash paid into your pension.
So recently I heard add on Sirius XM tonight at work come and work linehaul for Fed x ground all contractors owner operator small fleet owners.
I imagine it’s all mileage no clock time you’re gonna be paying a lot if they have any health benefits which are probably shit and no pension. Trucking is a plantation Hoffa senior tried to make it better all the old timers I knew said the old man Hoffa it was all for the men. In my world I started in 87 deregulation and Hoffa junior destroying master freight contracts have ruined what was once great job.
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