If you own a truck and you’re comparing hauling gigs, most of what you’ll find is either recruiting copy or Reddit threads from three years ago. This is our attempt at the honest version. One disclosure up front: we’re Trucka, we’re the new one, and we obviously want you to drive with us. Read accordingly.
What we can say about each
Lugg has been at this since the mid-2010s and operates across many major metros. Drivers work in teams on bigger jobs, and Lugg’s model leans toward fast on-demand dispatch with a priority system for experienced drivers. Volume in dense metros is their real advantage: more jobs per hour of being online.
GoShare covers consumer hauls plus small business freight across many metros, with vans and box trucks in the mix. They publish driver earnings information on their own site, and the business-delivery side can mean steadier weekday work than pure consumer demand.
We are not going to invent their current per-job numbers, because they change by market and time, and any figure we print would be stale or cherry-picked. Check their driver pages and current driver forums for your city, and weight recent reports over old ones.
What we do differently, concretely
You see the exact payout before you accept. Not an estimate, not a range: the number you’ll be paid for that job, on the offer, before you say yes. If the job changes on site (bigger item, extra stop), the price change goes through the customer’s approval and your payout updates with it, visibly.
Tips pass through completely. Every dollar a customer tips is the driver’s. No processing carve-outs, no pooling.
No bidding, no acceptance-rate punishment for saying no to a bad job. Offers come one at a time with a real window to decide. Declining a job that doesn’t work for you queues the next driver; it doesn’t put you in a penalty box.
Small market, on purpose. Here’s the honest tradeoff: we run in Utah County and Salt Lake County. Fewer total jobs than a national platform today. The bet we’re making is density: short hauls, low deadhead miles between jobs, and demand spikes (August, April) that we staff deliberately instead of discovering.
The questions to ask any hauling gig
Whoever you drive for, these five questions cut through recruiting copy:
- Do I see the exact pay before accepting, or an estimate?
- What happens to my pay when the job changes on site?
- Do tips reach me whole?
- What do miles between jobs look like in my city?
- What does declining a job cost me?
Ask them of us too. Our answers are above, in writing, and if you’re in Utah with a pickup or long bed, apply to drive and check them against reality. If you’re outside Utah County and Salt Lake County, honestly, Lugg or GoShare is where the work is today, and there’s no shame in driving for whoever pays your market best.