Just got off the phone with a XPO recruiter telling me to come join there 7 week cdl training starting may .. after the course they are offering a 61cent per mile line haul position with a 300 mile max radius (600 max there and back) so you will be home every day .. also drop and hook incentives.. but my main question is what is a yearly or monthly average for this position .. or is xpo even a good company to start out with ?
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Find our average daily miles ,sometimes a 50 mile trip can take 6 to 10 hours
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Ask about accessorial pays. They're in addition to CPM.
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LTL carrires are based on seniority so if there are runs available you work. If no runs available you dont. It can be real Feast or Famine at times. But for instance my first year linehaul i did around $60,000 . And that should be comparable to XPO. And you will go up from there. $100,000 is pretty easily made in LTL linehaul.
As for XPO as a company i couldnt really answer that. I dont work for them. I think the main complaint with XPO you always work the dock. No matter if your run is 200 miles a night or 600 miles a night you have to work the dock.
No reason not to contact companies and talk to them but in my opinion Old Dominion is better than XPO.blairandgretchen, Bean Jr., tscottme and 2 others Thank this. -
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If you hired on at a center that has a linehaul run regularly available to you that was about 300 miles round trip and you worked the dock at the FAC for about 3 hours each night and you added in drop/hook time you would be grossing in the area of around $1300-$1400 a week.
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600 miles there and back, and home every day.
Well, go for it.
You might spend 14 hours a day doing that 600 miles and get home for a 10 hour break, with the commute time added in.
Not even enough time for a ten, plus commute and pre-trip, any breaks along the way, any delays at the shipper/receiver, and any number of things.
Your 'main question' is moot if you can not enjoy that home time.
My point is that what they offer as incentives can often turn into a nightmare.
Because places like that will push you to 'maximize your hours' so much that you can never get the rest you need to be safe on the road.ayooT Thanks this.
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