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I'm not judging man! Whatever you have to tell yourself to be able to look in the mirror, that's your story, you stick to it!
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dave, one of my real life friends did a cover for "dancing queen". if you want/need to laugh, this is the video to watch!

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yeah, i know, it's unbelievable that i actually have friends.
Oh lord.

SO KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

So help me, I'm gonna get drunk as a skunk tomorrow and vomit somewhere.
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SO KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

So help me, I'm gonna get drunk as a skunk tomorrow and vomit somewhere.
Why wait?
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For other newbies like me reading this and other threads about drivers' reported hours and log book entries, the following resources were helpful in my understanding of these excellent discussions:

Sample driver's daily log on JJ Keller website:
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DOT regs. Part 395.3 (Maximum driving time for property-carrying vehicles):
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You need to get to a better company. Last week I ran 66.5 hours (about that in real time), 2824 hub miles (2525 paid miles) and I made about $1100 gross. which breaks down to $16.98/hr. I don't bust my hump working 80+hours a week and no one should.

You can cheat the log book, but I hope your book is in order if you have an accident. God forbid that'll happen but if it does, their lawyers will be all over that log book looking for any discrepancy. They'll subpoena Quallcomm records, phone records, text records, anything to blame you.

If anything, your experiment shows that there are companies out there that will not pay drivers a fair wage and there are drivers out there who will tolerate working for such companies.


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3128 miles
63 hrs logged (87.5 hrs actually worked)
$1063.52 earned b4 taxes and road expenses
or if I had a REAL job that bad OT after 40 hrs
$14.27/hr ($9.55/hr)
Still crappy wages for a professional.
Have I proved my point sufficently yet? You can not make decent money running legal, the more you cheat, the more you make!
Shall I keep going? Is there any additional info that you would like me to report? or shall I retire this experiement?
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