Pinnacle Transportation Systems Pinnacle Driveaway Live On Peanuts Elkhart Indiana

Pinnacle Driveaway specializes in facilitating the transport for vehicles too large to be shipped on the back of a flatbed. My particular job with them is to transport box trucks to their specified location anywhere in the US. The pay is anywhere from .77-.90 per mile, however the catch is that you are required to pay for A) Fuel, B) Transport, C) Hotels. Additionally, they fail to mention that on top of 20% federal self employment tax you are also required to pay 3.23% Indiana non-resident income tax on top of obtaining a business license for whatever municipality you live in and paying taxes there too.

The expenses end up being so much that at times you could make more working in fast food. The work is easy, but the stress of delivering late and missing your ride back home is almost unbearable. Additionally, if you break down all of the costs except for the repairs are on you. This includes food, hotels, and whatever expenses you paid for your transport back home are all gone. So if you break down, you could end up actually paying to deliver that truck.

You would think that the longer the trip, the more the miles so the more money you make, right? WRONG. The longer the trip you take with Pinnacle, the lower the mileage rate they pay you is. For example, I would take a 380 mile trip one day and a 760 mile trip the next and make only 20-40 dollars more on the longer trip, despite working for 6 more hours on top of a longer ride back to my next load. All in all, you end up making roughly 8 dollars an hour with no benefits and you are responsible for doing all of your own accounting, trip planning, etc... and the entire responsibility for the load is on you.

Gas prices go up? That comes out of your pocket. Transit costs go up? That's on you too. No matter what bad things happen economically, Pinnacle is padded from it and is free and clear from the responsibility of having people work for them. Working with Pinnacle you are treated like a slave and paid in peanuts and you could be stuck sleeping in an airport 1200 miles away from home while they go home at the end of a work day. NOT WORTH IT.