It is Saturday afternoon. You drop your last container, head home to Springfield and park your truck where you can see it. Sunday and Monday are yours. Tuesday you pick the start time that suits you and roll out again. That is a regional intermodal week on this account, and drivers average $1,500 for it.
How the Week Goes
Tuesday: start at the time you chose, heading to the Kansas City or St. Louis rail yards
On the Road: move containers to and from customers within 300 miles across Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois
At the Customer: 75% drop and hook, and the other 25% is loaded or unloaded by the customer, so your hands stay off the freight
Nights: in a 100% automatic sleeper with a 1500 watt inverter
Saturday: back home with your truck
Sunday and Monday: off
What It Pays
$1,500 weekly average, about $78,000 a year
$10,000 sign-on bonus, first payment after your first dispatch (eligibility terms apply)
$0.56 per mile to start, rising 1 cent a year to $0.61, on about 2,000 miles a week
$25 per drop and hook and $40 per live load or unload
$15 per extra stop, crosstown or shuttle move
$30 per hazmat load
$20 per hour detention after 1.5 hours live, 1 hour drop and hook
$225 per day during 3 to 5 days of training in Kansas City
Extra 6th days when freight is heavy
Who Has Your Back
An on-site transportation manager assigned to you
A 24/7 operation, so someone always picks up
Company owned tractors, containers and chassis
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision after 30 days
PTO accrual from your first day
401(k) with company match
Parental leave, adoption assistance and family planning support
Life insurance, disability and mental health coverage
6 paid holidays at $200 a day once you pass one year
Uniform shirts provided plus $150 a year
Requirements
21 or older with a valid Class A CDL
Verifiable tractor-trailer experience: 3 months in the last 6 with one carrier, 6 months in the last 12, or 12 months in the last 5 years
Hazmat within 90 days (we reimburse the cost)
Somewhere safe to park the tractor on days off
No careless or reckless driving and no more than 2 moving violations in 3 years
No major preventable accidents in 3 years and no DUI/DWI in 5 years
Must pass hair and urine drug testing, with no failed drug or alcohol test in the last 5 years
Riders and pets are not allowed. Everything else about this week is built around getting you home. Apply today and see if it fits.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans