Jack Cooper Transport

You were correct to not believe $1.20 a mile, it's $1.21 a mile for a 9 unit outbound load. Load pay is figured by the number of units you are loading, roughly $24 an hour, depends on how quick you are. I load 9 units $48 in 1.5 hours on an average day, 4-5 hours when I first started. Backhaul pay is $1.02 a mile and empty pay is zero. Unless your running local or short hauls you don't usually come back empty. On average I run 400-600 miles outbound then deadhead anywhere from 10 miles up to 150-200 miles to pickup a backhaul that is headed back towards my home terminal. Some backhauls get me to my home city and others empty out 100 miles from home. If you took loads to an area with no backhauls you would earn 60.5 cents for all miles, but if you run to an area such as Michigan you would average $1+ for all miles. It's the hardest trucking job of my 27 years in trucking, but after nearly 3 years hauling cars I hope to do it until I retire. It gets easier every day and offers more flexibility of work schedules than any other trucking job I have had.

 

Well said.

I would also add a word of caution to any newcomers. Union carhaul is basically paid by the load. Well paid. Do not fall into the nonsense of keeping an eye on the clock and thinking to yourself "I am now making x per hour, or I need to speed up so I make more per hour". You are going to make money, bottom line.

 

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Just got the call from jct Wayne mi , interview wendsday

 

Good luck to ya and let us know how it goes. I'm also interested in car hauling. I'm still in CDL school though. I went with Swift for after school, despite their rep, in part because they do have a car hauling division. I'd have to work out of Laredo, and they'd have to have a spot open. So I'm not sure what my chances of actually getting it are.

 

Good luck with it! If you get the job you may want to quit 50 times a day, but give it one year. By then you will probably really like it. It is a job that the more you do it, the better you get and the more you will like it. But it will suck for a while, i promise you that. Don't worry at first that it takes you all day to load, when it only takes the other guys an hour or so. You will load as fast as them one day too, have patience and don't tear stuff up by trying to rush. If you can haul cars out of Wayne, you can haul from anywhere, because they have 7 loading yards and haul just about every combination of vehicle going. I back haul out of there weekly and it gets me right back towards the house. I didn't like going there at first, but I can make more money going in and out of there a couple times a week than just about anything else I could run.

 

Since when did Swift get back into hauling cars again? They tried before and failed. Guess they are in it for round 2 or so....

 

hopefully they drop back out of it, i hate bottomfeeder companies that try and worm into segments of the industry that pay better than otr. jb hunt is doing this with building materials now. lenco lumber in buffalo is straight trucks with jb hunt stickers on he fuel tanks.

 

I'm not sure when. I met a husband/wife who was delivering at a place a couple of buildings from where I'm going to school. My recruiter didn't even know about it the first time we talked. She's in Michigan though, and this is out of their Laredo terminal.

The next time we talked she had some info. She said I'd have to work out of Laredo, which was ok by me. If I recall it right though, I still had to drive for Swift for X amount of time- I was hazy on the exact amount. 3 months + the training month maybe? Also, a spot had to be opened up.

I've been looking to sign on with an actual car hauling company. While I'd have no problems working out of Laredo if that's what it takes, if I can find something closer to here it might be a better way to go.

 

I think they still haul some into NYC area. I've seen two tractor trailers running together into NYC area. They load the cab over argosy onto the Columbia. They look to pull 3 or so vehicles on the trailer. I've seen other flats hailing dodge/Mercedes vans lately.