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<blockquote data-quote="Butt In The Chair" data-source="post: 2276901" data-attributes="member: 63553"><p>Unless you can afford to live solely on the wife's income AND unless it's at a large regional breaker hub facility, and even then highly questionable, the answer is NO. If you were single with no wife/kids/mortgage and your biggest monthly expenditure was a subscription to a highly questionable freaky website then I'd offer different advice.</p><p></p><p>They'll be quick to tell you alllll about the pay and how quickly those 4 years fly by and put the full-scale pay at the end of a stick and wave it around like a flag on independence day but what they don't tell you is that you won't be working full time and the smaller the hub, the less you'll work.</p><p></p><p>I just hit full scale and don't have a bid yet. Unless I'm covering a vacation, I have to call in every night to see if I'm covering a call off or freight overflow the only difference is now I make in 3 days of work at full scale that I would have made working in 5 at the last pay scale I was at.</p><p></p><p>I was lucky, the wife makes 100K/yr and we were paying $1300/mth for insurance for a family of 3. My taking the job allowed her to drop coverage and use my insurance, which is far superior, and we only pay $200/mth so we got an additional $1100/mth net pay raise to weather out the storm.</p><p></p><p>You'd be better served going with Small Pac than Freight and there are many more minds here that can advise you with that decision.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Butt In The Chair, post: 2276901, member: 63553"] Unless you can afford to live solely on the wife's income AND unless it's at a large regional breaker hub facility, and even then highly questionable, the answer is NO. If you were single with no wife/kids/mortgage and your biggest monthly expenditure was a subscription to a highly questionable freaky website then I'd offer different advice. They'll be quick to tell you alllll about the pay and how quickly those 4 years fly by and put the full-scale pay at the end of a stick and wave it around like a flag on independence day but what they don't tell you is that you won't be working full time and the smaller the hub, the less you'll work. I just hit full scale and don't have a bid yet. Unless I'm covering a vacation, I have to call in every night to see if I'm covering a call off or freight overflow the only difference is now I make in 3 days of work at full scale that I would have made working in 5 at the last pay scale I was at. I was lucky, the wife makes 100K/yr and we were paying $1300/mth for insurance for a family of 3. My taking the job allowed her to drop coverage and use my insurance, which is far superior, and we only pay $200/mth so we got an additional $1100/mth net pay raise to weather out the storm. You'd be better served going with Small Pac than Freight and there are many more minds here that can advise you with that decision. [/QUOTE]
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