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This is the one that I’m using. amzn.to/4eHCdOF

They pay for 1 hour for the quarterly safety video plus 1¢ per mile. They really itemize things.

It’s a short video, not even three minutes. I literally show the home time that I’ve taken through this pay period. Start and end times, total hours, total days. I stay out between 14 and 20 days depending upon when the weekend falls.

Probably not…. But thanks for guessing.

I published that video in March 2022. I still have that fridge and it’s still working.

It goes up a little, down a little but stays pretty steady.

They are decent. They have nice equipment and my home time was great. I got a lot of loads that would be 500-600 miles but pick up one morning deliver the next night. That just didn’t fit with my way of running. I made way more money as a company driver. I left and returned to the carrier where I’ve spent 42 months of my 5 year trucking career. If I’m going to be a lease operator, I want to be making more than a company driver. I evaluate a carrier based upon; Culture, Home Time, Equipment, Compensation, and Knowledge.

i heard that!! me too!!

I traded back to an International but a 2023.

It is new. Georgia. Love’s across the street.

wow.. so positive!

Bradenton is always an adventure.

We have low turnover and very few open trucks. HOWEVER, you said you live in Atlanta. Call Monday. Don’t wait. I happen to know they are looking for a driver to be based out of Atlanta. As for family time, as a truck driver. The whole time my daughter was growing up I was working my way up the corporate ladder. I was “home” every night. I left before she work up, and I got home maybe an hour before she went to bed. I spent a lot of my time on the phone. One of the reasons I’m with Cheeseman is the home time. Out of Atlanta you’ll be able to get home for 3+ days every 2 weeks. Depending upon where in Atlanta, you might get an extra visit in passing through. Most of the places we deliver to aren’t open on weekends and holidays. When you park the truck, you are truly off. My Google Voice number is 706-418-5717, text first. I’m on home time until Monday.

I’m loving it. But I’m several weeks behind on videos.

Thanks, I’m still enjoying every day at work. Working on catching up the videos, too.

That $15 per hour is for every hour away from home. I don’t expect to be paid for hours I’m not working. Show me a kid collecting carts making $100k per year plus. Do you expect to be paid for sleeping? Going shopping? Working on videos?

But those kids aren’t making $100k plus a year either. I’m in a hotel away from home 3 to maybe 4 nights a week. I don’t get paid while sleeping. On the 34 hour resets (paid $100) you go adventure around. It’s all about if you are enjoying what you are doing. If so then it’s really not work.

@@bbbb1024 I need to do more “adventure around” videos.

@ that would be great! 😊

It’s not that they are a bad carrier for which to work, they just aren’t the best carrier for me. I made money but less than I make as a company driver.

@MidlifeTrucker-ThomBell the only nice thing it looks like is the trucks

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This isn’t a broker load but a load from one of our regular contract customers to an import export place. I’m used to it by now. I usually back in.

Yup would never had even risked it. Yard dog.....

I’m still with Cheeseman. I’m here until retirement. I show every pay statement. I show the logs and miles. I even break it down so you can see the home time. I think it’s very good for the industry.

@@MidlifeTrucker-ThomBell so is the pay and miles still faily good. Like whats the average weekly pay

@@_kashytwin_5275 - I know this is a silly question but did you watch the video? That is literally what the video is about. I show the logs, the pay statement, the home time, even compare it to a regular job and if I were paid for every hour in the truck. It’s a short video, like 4 minutes.

Wish I had a bird’s eye view when I was actually backing.

Not quite, but good guess.

Thanks

This is true. But practice can make the blind side easier.

That would be Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I try to give the location and number near the beginning.

@@MidlifeTrucker-ThomBell I've been there a few times but I've never had to park there. Those service plazas in PA are calmer 🤣

I've got a George Foreman electric grill and I love cooking steak, pork chops, hamburgers, and such on the back deck of my semi.

I don't know this for sure but I'm betting the shop was added and that made that rear parking a lot more difficult.

It is a good location to get backing video footage from a drone, though.

While I'm not an owner operator, I'm a nerd, so I do like tech and numbers. My contact info is always in the description.

I do go to Kinston frequently but I wasn’t there last week. There are about 300 Cheeseman trucks.

Some do not like company.