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You are absolutely NOT making double what you were in OTR earnings. If you're working a regular OTR schedule you were earning 60k ~ give or take 5k. So you're saying now you're gonna make 120k?...Come on now....

You are absolutely NOT making double what you were in OTR earnings. If you're working a regular OTR schedule you were earning 60k ~ give or take 5k. So you're saying now you're gonna make 120k?...Come on now....

I absolutely making double what I made OTR in the last 10 months, based on basic math for the next 10 months, not including any type of pay raise I might get. I never once said I made 60k OTR, and you cannot compare yours or other drivers earnings to what I made while I was OTR.

You are absolutely NOT making double what you were in OTR earnings. If you're working a regular OTR schedule you were earning 60k ~ give or take 5k. So you're saying now you're gonna make 120k?...Come on now....

Where are you working, Greg?

I absolutely making double what I made OTR in the last 10 months

I'm afraid I have to jump in here to make sure that people don't get the wrong idea.

Jamie, to be brutally honest, if you're now making double what you were making while driving OTR for the past 10 months then quite honestly weren't turning any miles out there driving OTR. There's no way on Earth a simple local flatbed delivery job for Home Depot would pay even close to what a productive OTR driver is making.

Most OTR drivers are making $45,000 - $55,000 their rookie year these days. By year two or three they're making $65,000 - $75,000. So if you're now making double on this account what you were making driving OTR then I honestly don't know what the heck you were doing out there running OTR, but you sure weren't turning any miles.

I'm super happy to hear you're enjoying this job so far and that you're getting home to see your wife everyday. That's fantastic. But I don't want people trying to do the math and thinking you've found some gravy train $100k+ per year kind of job that gets you home every night and doesn't even require a full day's work some of the time.

you cannot compare yours or other drivers earnings to what I made while I was OTR.

To add to what Brett said, there are jobs that get you home every night and pay 100k+. However that's after YEARS of climbing the seniority ladder. Also about 10-12hr shifts for 5 days. Anyway Im curious about this position Jamie has as well. I came across dozens of local flatbed gigs before coming to FedEx but the pay didn't compare to otr work.

Just a side note, I heard that Schneider developed that flatbed set-up with the forklift riding the tail. Maybe that's true or maybe not, but I was told that when I was in Green Bay for training. Either way, they had an instructor up there training students on the same rig Jamie is going to operate. I didn't know they called it a "moffett", I still call it a forklift.

To add to what Brett said, there are jobs that get you home every night and pay 100k+. However that's after YEARS of climbing the seniority ladder. Also about 10-12hr shifts for 5 days.

For sure some of the LTL gigs will pay that under those circumstances. I've also heard of some gigs in the oil fields that pay $100k, but those are far more demanding jobs which often require a good bit of manual labor from the driver and extremely long hours. The oil fields are a completely separate thing unto themselves though.

Jamie hasn't told us what this job pays, but it's nowhere near $100k+. I was just concerned that people are going to think, "Wow, OTR drivers are making $50k+ their rookie year and this guy is now making double that on an easy gig with partial days and he gets home every night!" That's not the case.

Id be sleepin in my bed everyday if i could make 100k next yr locally while i know in the northeast i can equal my regional pay the work itself and the hours driving to work then working 12-14 hours then driving home is an absolutely brutal schedule ive done it for my own company here and there to fill in i like my money to come easier and safer im sure most new drivers have no idea how tough that “local” schedule can be but id be willing to bet a good share of rookies would fail doing the majority of local work

Just a side note, I heard that Schneider developed that flatbed set-up with the forklift riding the tail. Maybe that's true or maybe not, but I was told that when I was in Green Bay for training. Either way, they had an instructor up there training students on the same rig Jamie is going to operate. I didn't know they called it a "moffett", I still call it a forklift.

Schneider did NOT "invent" this. "Piggyback Forklift" setups have been around for quite some time.

"Moffett" is actually the MANUFACTURER of the forklift - and they're not the only ones who make "truck mounted" setups. They also make NON TRUCK mounted lifts.

This setup is pretty much used in the construction materials delivery trade - where pallets of materials have to be lifted off on sites that didn't have a crane or forklift to unload.

The two flatbed loads of drywall/etc. I used to build out my current space, come from a local materials company that ran this setup.

Rick

Jamie along with what has been said; depending on the region of the country you are working this type of gig can be rather seasonal as the need for building materials diminishes during the winter months.

The other thing to realize; these trucks make both commercial and non-commercial deliveries. Thus you’ll be navigating tree lined residential streets with your rig placing bulky “stuff” on driveways and grassy areas. Be careful.

Good luck with it.