Saia Motor Freight Line reviews

Starting pay for linehaul system drivers is 54 and goes up to 62 cpm after 18 months.

Starting pay for hourly is 21.85 and you max at 25.12 at 18 months.

Their benefits are really good. Their health insurance is a 80/20 plan and for a family is only about 40/week.

You have major holidays off and paid

You also gain personal/sick days (maxes out at 3 a year) 

You gain vacation in order to schedule after January 1 following your hire date in which you can borrow against, but you have to pay it back in your final check if you do not stay your entire first year.

I just got hired on as a local city driver out of Lexington, KY and am training in Cincinnati for the week.

Also the line haul is based on a bid/seniority system. When you first start you are what is called a "System Line haul Driver" basically means your an at call/fill in driver. They have work for you, but its not the same thing and you could cover for other drivers taking vacation or calling out until you gain enough seniority to bid on a route that is consistent.

The bad thing about the line haul system drivers is that lets say you start off at night on monday night youll run your ten's until Saturday and youll end up on day. So a lot of people complain because they can't get a constant sleep cycle.

The good thing is that you can earn a good 65k your first year as a line haul driver with them! I seen their pay stubs because I told them they were BS'n me!

I work for saia in the chicago region. I can tell you with certainty that you will not work 80 hour weeks here. We use "vnomics" electronic logs and it WILL NOT let you work more than 70 hours in a workweek. We are a 5 day operation in the city and a 5 to 6 day operation on linehaul. You may have to work a 6 day workweek if you're on linehaul during a busy stretch and you're low on the totem pole. Also, a lot of linehaul hustlers will take up the weekend work by working until saturday, or starting their workweek on a sunday, so you might be working mon-fri most of the time.

Paid every week. You will be on the extra board, do not expect to be home every night, more than likely every 5-7 days. Pay is great so are benefits

Saia was good when I worked there but that was before the recession. I worked line haul and a lot of the local guys wished they were line haul. They paid good but be careful you don't mess up, they will fire you in a heartbeat! A guy dropped a trailer because the kingpin didn't lock and they fired him on the spot. Stupid mistake but they don't like it. Another one was if the bar on the front of the trailer unlocked and slid down while you were driving, another automatic fire. Accidents too if they were bad enough. They paid for sitting, breakdowns and mileage. At Reddaway I don't get paid when I sit unless a guy is late on a meet turn. My yard isn't union though.