Comments By Big Ben

Hahaha :)

Where's the thumbs up or like button? There are tons of good and useful posts and replies here that I would most certainly give a like or thumbs up so that way the poster or replier (is that a word lol) knows the knowledge they bestow upon us is useful. :)

After I got home from 3 months otr and I couldn't drive my car right because it felt too small.

Congrats brother, be safe out there.

So I'm sitting here at the Michael's in Prescott Arizona waiting for my delivery time of 0800 and this is just one of the best shopping malls I've been to lol, there are tons of seniors here out and about on their morning walks. A few of them offered to grab me some coffee or to walk with them, I declined the walk because waiting for unloading but I stood and chat with them for awhile about the good'ole days. Two of them were actually retired truckers!

If you have att you can get on their unlimited data plan if you also have dish network at home, it doesn't have to be in your name just the address has to have it. It's unlimited high speed data up to 22gb then after they may throttle you depending on the need of others in your area, I myself have never been throttled and have gone over the 22gb a few times already. It's only available for your smart phone though and not tethering or a movie hot spot.

Ok I'm going to try to answer all the questions in the response so if I miss you let me know. I work for swift since I got my cdl back in September 2015 did otr until November 2015 then got on the Michael's dedicated account for swift in December 2015. I get paid hourly wether I'm on duty driver or on duty not driving. My work week is suppose to be Sunday through Thursday with Friday and Saturday off but that changes constantly depending on the customers need. If I don't have a load my dm will try to have me run empties back to the customer but not too often because empties are scarce. The numbers I put up are after taxes and so far I have yet to take home $1000 after taxes even with 4 hours left on my 70 hour. I hope I answered all questions. I hope I'm not coming of as complaining because I'm not and I do love the account I'm on, I just feel for being gone so long I should be making more especial if my days off are really 34 hour resets.

Hey all, long time lurker first time poster. I have been with my company for 11 months already, I did 3 months otr then got lucky with a semi-local gig that pays hourly. Let me tell you a bit about it, I usually am gone for about 5 to 6 days starting Sunday driving back Friday, Saturday if I run out of drive time. Some days I don't drive at all because there are no loads, my pay checks have been anywhere from lowest $200-$800 a week. I already talked to my dm and she seems like she is trying to get me more loads. I do love driving there's no complaint there and I do love my job, it's easy dedicated. I guess my question is, for being gone from my family so long (4 year old daughter and wife) should I be making more per week that is steady and not up and down? I not to sure of I'm making any sense here but yeah there it is. Any questions feel free to ask or any inpu, thanks!