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What to Expect Working at Smith
- Company Culture: Family oriented, driver-first company culture.
- Pay: Potential to make over $75,000 a year including bonuses. Note that we really pride ourselves on hiring and rewarding our safe drivers.
- $5,000 Sign On Bonus
- Our top earning driver made $91,000 in 2021.
- Equipment: We offer our drivers safe equipment and we expect them to be safe with their choices on the road. We run modern equipment: We have tractors with automatic transmissions and 53′ dry vans:
- We offer drivers Volvos: We keep trucks in our fleet for 5 years before selling , so we don’t slow down drivers with old equipment that requires expensive maintenance.
- Cab upgrades-Refrigerators, Upgraded seats, Bunk heaters, Memory foam mattresses, inverters.
- We use Keep Truckin’ ELDs which are very user friendly for the driver and forward facing dash cameras to protect the driver from accident liability.
- Midwest runs: We live in the friendliest part of the country, and we celebrate that our driver’s quality of life is improved by the “Midwest-Nice” mentality that they encounter on the road.
- Routes: Most freight runs are within a 500 mile radius of our homebase in Evansville, Indiana
- Dispatch: Part of the primary working relationship every driver has with their company is their interactions with their Dispatcher. At Smith, we work hard to have pro-driver dispatchers that prioritize the needs and preferences of all our drivers.
- Load Type: We haul food grade products, dry food goods, plastics, and metal alloys.
- Hometime: You can expect to be home every weekend and most of our drivers get back for 1-2 days during the week as well. Your family is a priority to you, which makes your time with them a priority for us.
- ELD’s: Electronic logs can be a bother, but we’ve tried to do away with the hardest parts by choosing technology that’s up to date and user friendly.
- Loading & Unloading: We do not subscribe to unpaid loading or unloading! We respect your time and we expect you to get paid for it– If a driver is requested to load/unload or if a lumper must be hired, the driver must get pre-approval through dispatch. The approval must be noted on the original bill of lading. Once the pre-approved request is received for a driver to load and/or unload the freight he/she is hauling; the driver can perform the service and receive the fee that appears on our invoice to the customer.