Comments By Daniel B.

Every August Old Dominion hosts a Wages & Benefits meeting for every terminal. In these meetings they reveal new pay raises they call "cost of living raise" as well as any (if any) changes to the benefits package.

These meetings are hosted by people very high in the company which is amazing considering how large OD has become. This year our Regional Manager hosted it. In the past we have had fine folk like David Bates (Senior VP - Operations) host it. I have personally met him a few times as well as others. In my opinion its unheard to actually meet the top guys for a company with 25,000 employees. One of the many reasons every OD driver will tell you with absolute confidence that this is the best carrier.

New Pay is as follows (CA)

Linehaul will top out at .80cpm!!!

P&D Drivers new top pay is $35.35 per hour!!!

Dockworker new top pay is $30.05 per hour!!!

I run a lot of mountain cities around Sacramento. Just today I was exiting a residential delivery and I was literally an inch from the guys post on his driveway on my exit and the ground was uneven. If I went fast the trailer would have swayed left right and it would have hit his post. So I had to move 2 inches at a time to prevent the trailer from swaying too hard to avoid hitting the post. I would move 2 inches forward and stop to let the trailer settle down. Rinse and repeat to exit. Yeah don't go local unless you secretly like this kind of stuff. We are used to it though. 1" is still technically enough room to work with.

This is actually my reality. I am successfully working towards becoming a Regional Safety Coordinator for OD.

Hopefully many more to go!

Blast from the past! How yah been Six String?

Great to see you're still around helping people out G-Town! I see Old School is still helping new drivers out too. That's awesome to see.

I've been well. Hope the same w/ you! Are you still driving distribution for Wal-Mart? And were you always based out of DE? We hit the DE beaches almost every year for vacation.

Wish there was a way to pm members on the forum. I'm hoping Daniel checks the site so he can see I didn't forget about him.

Howdy, Six String!

I was mostly a 'reader' back in your day; pretty sure I've read every. single. post. of yours!!!

I gave Daniel a FB shout. . . . hope it works!! I sure hope you'll stick around, this time. You've done so much to help the folks in here, back in the 'days'.... MUCH APPRECIATED!

~ Anne ~

Howdy back Anne! Thank you for the kind words and the fb message to Daniel. I don't go on fb and I don't have Daniel's number anymore, so that's very helpful of you.

Good to hear from you again sir. Send me an email and I'll message you my number so we can catch up.

Truckerdan44@yahoo.com

My wife has been an OTR dispatcher for 7 years. Her 1st company was very small roughly a dozen drivers. She was taking home $2400 a month salary.

She went to a different company in January this year. She's making $1000 per week but as a 1099.

I've been on the receiving end of her ranting about her drivers. Man, you guys wouldn't believe some of the absolute stupidity of some of her drivers. The things they do sometimes are absolutely mind blowing.

It was a great day! We had really good participation this year

(Ps please make this photo my profile picture. It will not allow me to do it myself...)

Banker hours. M-F. Weekends, holidays, birthday off. I can get off early if I need to I just need to tell dispatch (Good Friday). $32.65 per hour and I can work just about as many hours if I want. #11 on seniority board and I'm one of the Lead Trainers. OD is the pinnacle of the industry.

I've been training for 8 years now and I've had some students who were seriously lacking in the backing. One guy couldn't even straight line back after the 2nd week. They all ended up getting their license, some just took an extra week or two.

You did get your license? Well that means you can back, just not consistently. I truly believe your issues are 95% mental and only 5% skill. Which isn't difficult to fix you just need a specific kind of trainer and a very tailored teaching style. I would love the challenge. I wish you luck in your new career path but I wouldn't discount what you did manage to accomplish in your short time driving despite the challenges.

KW T680