Swift offered me $19.50 an hour to do intermodal in Southern California?

Posted by K424n310F@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 36 comments

I have a year of experience but nobody is really hiring. Hiring person I spoke to said they average about 60 hours a week. There’s load pay too but I’m unsure how much that is. Can someone chime in on how much intermodal drivers should be making?

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Trappin4DaSport@reddit

panda express pays $19 a hour less stressful and you get free lunch 😂

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GoMake_me_a_sandwich@reddit

Do NOT take that. If you want 19.50 an hour just go work at McDonald's and it's safer and you'll be home every night for the same money. If you want to work that driving job, call them back and tell them you need at least 28 per hour and if they want you that is what they need to pay.

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geneticdeadender@reddit

Even 28 is low for California.

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MostOriginalNameEver@reddit

That's insanely low for the South. But California? Does it come with government assistance forms?

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tvieno@reddit

Something to take into consideration: Minimum wage in California is $16.90.

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jmzstl@reddit

And the fast food minimum wage is $20/hr (for most chains).

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mvamv@reddit

That pay is too low for hourly in SoCal.

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GoBBleRoFDaCoK69@reddit

$20 to deal with LA traffic. Not even $200 a day and barely breaking over $1000. If i didn’t convince you otherwise well…….

Welcome to swift driver glad to have you on board!!!!😀😀😀😀😀

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TruckinTuba@reddit

I make $38.75 as a local/bulk driver for Carlile in Alaska

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mason2393@reddit

I'm not sure about southern California but I'm local intermodal in wa state with a different company and i make 70-75k working like 9 hours a day. 19.50 x 12 is 234 if no overtime pay and let's say you do 3 loads a day at $30 a piece that's like $324 a day so around $1600 a week gross. Up to you if that's worth it or not. It really depends how much the load pay is and how many loads per day you'll get.

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K424n310F@reddit (OP)

Thank you for this answer. I figured the stop pay would be a good boost. I should’ve asked if overtime is straight pay or time and a half.

I have another opportunity to take flatbed and moffet at $27 an hour with an average of 50 hours of week so I may go with that. Hoping it’ll help on my resume for LTL in the future.

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Dangerous_Ad1115@reddit

Everything you do will look good on your resume as long as you cherish your CDL and stay out of trouble.

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post_mah_bone@reddit

I've spoken to some internodal drivers at swift who said they make close if not over 100k a year.

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reducethedebt@reddit

I make more in Minnesota then that and it's easy 70% drop and hook

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stevenmacarthur@reddit

I was making 16.50 an hour in 2011...in Wisconsin.

19.50 in California in 2026 is a fucking insult.

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ag_fg4si@reddit

Nope. Run as away as you can

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Not_TbagJimmy@reddit

In cali? That state is more fucked than I thought. Even the soda companies pay $30 here in northeast

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hispanic-unknown1@reddit

Please do yourself a favor and do not take that job trust me something will come around

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Auquaholic@reddit

That's awful.

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Requettie@reddit

please be satire lol

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second_chances_26@reddit

Omg I hope you blocked them

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Internal-Delusions01@reddit

Nope

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Difficult_Chemical_6@reddit

Ask them how much other drivers in this position are grossing

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NectarineAny4897@reddit

Walk.

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everythangspeachie@reddit

I used to work intermodal for jb hunt in SoCal and the pay is the same at all those mega carriers. It’s the lowest pay in the industry and the job itself is boring and annoying af. Would never go back.

They called me like 2 years later saying they have an open position. I did not respond.

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K424n310F@reddit (OP)

Thank you for sharing your experience 🙏

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