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Completing a proper pre-trip can be vital to not only the maintenance of your truck but also DOT compliance and your personal safety. With experience, you may get into a natural rhythm or order in which you pre-trip your truck and trailer, for now, stick with a pre-trip checklist to assure you do not overlook any details.
Click below to get a copy of a Pre-Trip checklist.
*NEW* Daily and weekly home time dedicated opportunities within our Midwest Reefer division. If you missed our #MMLIVE with all the details, here is a quick overview.
Daily home time is from Le Mars, Iowa to Sioux Falls, SD twice daily. This is a NEW opportunity for this customer, offering our drivers drop and hook home daily options. Hiring out of the Le Mars, IA (50 mile radius) area only.
Weekly home time, sometime on the weekend for a minimum of 34 hours. Possibilities of getting home during the week, but not guaranteed.
| Students | $.40 cpm ($.01 cpm raise every quarter for the 1st yr and then $.01 cpm increase annually thereafter) |
| 1-5 months experience | 0.43 cpm |
| 6 -11 months experience | $.45 cpm |
| 1 – 3 years experience | $.47 cpm |
| 3 – 5 years experience | $.49 cpm |
| 5+ years experience | $.50 cpm |
| $.01 cpm increase at 90 days | |
| $.01 cpm annual pay increase until cap is reached – Cap is $.55 cpm) | |
| $.10 cpm for all drivers | |
| $5,000 paid after one year of service. Must have a MINIMUM of 110,000 miles. | |
| Up to $.04 cpm per month as part of the monthly performance-based bonus | |
| Clean DOT Inspections = $50.00, Referral Bonuses | |
| Average 2200 miles per week | |
Mainly night driving with A.M. deliveries into Illinois and Wisconsin
Week 1 deliveries are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Week 2 deliveries are on Tuesday and Thursday
Picking up pre-loaded trailers in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska
Live unload deliveries to Chicago Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
Get more information from our Weekly Live Q&As
If you are interested in a position with Decker Truck Line, contact a recruiter now, 888.668.0698
or apply online at www.DriveDecker.com.
Written By: Jesse Butler
Jesse Butler is a driver recruiter for Decker Truck Line. She has worked within the trucking industry for over a decade.
Apply directly to Decker Truck Line at www.DriveDecker.com
Give them what they want!
Pay and miles are a hot topic in the trucking industry. No surprise. It’s been that way for quite some time. What’s surprising is that Decker has created a honeypot for drivers to feed on in the Midwest.
Truck Driver Salary
Two, actually. After hearing suggestions from our regional drivers, our operations department put their heads together in search of a way to offer BOTH quality home time and guaranteed pay. This may sound like a fairytale to some of you who have been around the industry for a while, but I assure you, it’s legit. We’ve been offering guaranteed pay to our regional drivers who live in the Fort Dodge, Sioux City, Storm Lake, Omaha, Mason City, Chicago, and Milwaukee areas and have seen great success with it. If you are interested in applying, go to www.DriveDecker.com or call our recruiters at 888.668.0698.
Here is additional information on how it pays out and what the qualifications area.
Weekly home time – sometime over the weekend. Home time will not be the same every week. It could be starting Friday or sometime Saturday, depending on hours of service and load situation. A driver may go through the house throughout the week.
Primary running areas are IA, IL, WI, IN, KS, MO, and NE. First in, first out dispatch in Iowa. All other areas are preplanned the afternoon before the delivery.
Flatbed freight, mostly wallboard, sheet steel, coils, rebar, tubing, and lumber. Maybe some night driving.
Qualifications
(If driver doesn’t meet all qualifications, regular MW Flatbed mileage pay applies instead of the truck driver salary)
Pay & Incentives
$1350 Guaranteed Pay regardless of experience (trainees will still get paid as regular trainee pay – once graduated from the training program, they are eligible for the salary pay program)
Monthly Bonus – up to $0.04/mile per month (see monthly performance details)
$2500 Paid on 1 year anniversary. Must have a minimum of 100,000 miles.
$15 to tarp and untarp / $15 t secure and unsecure
$25 per pick & delivery except first and last stop
Detention, Layover, and Breakdown
Weekly home time – sometime over the weekend. Home time will not be the same every week. It could be starting Friday or sometime Saturday, depending on hours of service and load situation. A driver may go through the house throughout the week.
Drivers will pick up pre-loaded trailers and deliver in the Chicago area including suburbs, proper and downtown. Loads may consist of multiple stops as well as live loads and live unloads. Freight will come back north and west to multiple locations including, WI, MN, Des Moines, IA, Council Bluffs, IA, Fort Dodge, IA, Sioux City, IA, Storm Lake, IA, Cherokee, IA and Omaha, NE.
Refrigerated freight, mostly fresh meat. 98% night driving.
Qualifications
(If driver doesn’t meet all qualifications, regular MW Reefer mileage pay applies instead of the truck driver salary)
Pay & Incentives
$1250 Guaranteed Pay regardless of experience (trainees will still get paid as regular trainee pay – once graduated from the training program, they are eligible for the guaranteed pay program)
Monthly Bonus – up to $0.04/mile per month (see monthly performance details)
$2500 Paid on 1 year anniversary. Must have a minimum of 110,000 miles.
Detention, Layover, and Breakdown
For more information on additional opportunities, you can see our latest Q&A below, or call 888.668.0698.
See the qualifications for the trucker salary pay above.
If you are interested in a position with Decker Truck Line, contact a recruiter now, 888.668.0698 or apply online at www.DriveDecker.com.
Written By: Jesse Butler
Jesse Butler is a driver recruiter for Decker Truck Line. She has worked within the trucking industry for over a decade.
Apply directly to Decker Truck Line at www.DriveDecker.com
Maximize Your Monthly Bonus Payouts
Do you feel like your working your tail off and not seeing the incentive amounts you were hoping for? Ever hear of the phrase “work smarter, not harder”?
We have no doubt you are working hard day in and day out. Although, just because you are working hard, doesn’t mean you are being productive or getting the most out of your time. I say this with a guilty conscious. I am constantly trying to get more time out of my day to get things done, not possible. We all have the same 24 hours in a day and, well, some of us are better at managing that than others. If you are anything like me, you want to be more efficient and more effective. So, how do we all “up our game” so we can get the most out of the work we put in? Know what needs to be done and determine the shortest path possible to achieve that.
Take a look at the criteria we have for our monthly incentive bonus, we call it our Driver’s Scorecard Bonus.
Your score is based on the number of miles you ran, driver-related claims, driver-related service failures, preventable accidents, and driver-related CSA violations. Knowing the criteria and being aware of expectations from the company as well as your current performance all contribute to YOU meeting YOUR monthly bonus goals. Each division’s mileage breakdown is different, communicate with your fleet manager throughout the month to ensure you are on track. If you wait till the end of the month, you may not have time to rectify the situation and increase your numbers if they are low.* Below is a breakdown of the miles expected and the points associated per division.
Always remember, your fleet manager’s goals are to improve your numbers. They are there to help you. Allow them to be your advocate.
ALL points will be forfeited for any (driver-related) claims, (driver-related) service failures, preventable accidents and CSA violations for the month. Remember this is a monthly bonus, so if you do lose points this month, it will have no bearing on next month’s bonus.
Here are some tips for over the road truck drivers to maximize your monthly bonus payouts by improving your MPG, idle time, miles, claims, service failures, preventable accidents, and CSA violations.
Together we can improve your efficiency and Decker Truck Line’s and see larger bonus payouts for you each month. Call your fleet manager with any questions.
Company drivers can make an extra 1 penny to 4 cents per mile. Owner Operator drivers can make an extra 1 penny to 3 cents per mile. Lease Operators drivers can make an extra 1 penny to 4 cents per mile.
If you are interested in a position with Decker Truck Line, contact a recruiter now, 888.668.0698 or apply online at www.DriveDecker.com.
Written By: Jesse Butler
Jesse Butler is a driver recruiter for Decker Truck Line. She has worked within the trucking industry for over a decade. You can contact her at 406.203.4413.
Apply directly to Decker Truck Line at www.DriveDecker.com
