Trial and tribulations - Owner Operator Daily Express Employee Review

The equipment is sub standard at best, the paint peels off the trailers, the pony motors work half the time, the bigger combo trailers have been repaired constantly over the 20 years Daily keeps them because they consistently Overload the trailers and trucks. If you get a lease truck prepare for bad fuel economy (mine was averaging 5.2mpg running 65 loaded, empty it would get 5.5mpg…. 2019 international 3 axle truck, it also blew the turbo at 326,000 miles and this isn’t uncommon at Daily) low power and high maintenance requirements! Daily pays 70% of shareable profit… read that again, not line haul! The fuel surcharge comes out of the shareable profit, everything the truck earns is shareable, layover pay? That’s shareable, tarp pay? Shareable, detention? Shareable! So Daily keeps 30% of the money they show you, what they don’t show you is they have a brokerage company that takes somewhere around 20% of just about every load. They say they’ll pay for tolls while loaded or on permits… you will never see a toll road on a permit, you’ll see every 2 lane backwoods bobs road you can imagine even while running up to 14’ wide( I had to have local authorities find drivers and move cars because I was permitted on backroads thru New York State, the route added 200 miles to the trip by avoiding any major highway.) they’ll tell you about their culture of safety but then ask you to do loads that are not safe, they’ll over load the trucks and trailers and just permit the maximum weights the states will allow which was regularly over 90,000 lbs on 5 axles! They will refuse to get an escort if the load isn’t legally required to have one, 12’5 dump truck bed? Nope, run it state doesn’t require an escort. Loading at the ports? Better call Ahead and make sure the load has cleared customs or you’ll be sitting there for a couple of days while they try to figure out what to do. If your desperate to run oversize they’ll give you a chance but you had better be careful and watch your paycheck like a hawk.