Reality (pay)

On the average as a company driver? Yes. It's not like if you are on a salary, so there will be weeks that will be below that and above that. It makes managing your money a challenge.

You're well advised to keep a week or two worth of cash in reserve- as you can to help smooth things out.

 

Fully depends on your relationship with your FM/DM. (ie. Attitude, performance, & how much of a trucking elitest you choose to be)

Be proactive, call ahead to shipper/receiver to see if you can deliver early & tell you FM your new ETA so he can get another load rolling when possible.

I do anything asked without complaint & rarely see below $1100 take home unless I take time off...& my truck is ridiculously bad on fuel so would be $100 or so more if I got the full fuel bonus

Talked with multiple solo & team drivers (company & lease) that supposedly are barely scraping the barrel & their attitudes (elitist trash talk) make me believe it...

Blow hards don't last long, check your ego at the door.


Just remember the prayer:
Our FM in dispatch, let thy name be known;Let your seniority exploited to get the best loads;
Give us our helping of miles for the day;
Forgive us our dismal 'cost per mile' for the week;
As we have forgiven the thousandth idiot who waited til the merge point to accelerate, then could not hold a speed or lane while texting & for no apparent reason brake checked us;
Deliver us not into cities of populations in excess of 100,000;
And though I drive through cities at times of deep shadow; (0500-0900 / 1500-1900 local)
I pray for the wind to be behind us, helping our MPG & your bottom line;
I know the devil lurks yet ahead in the dark places, for I am headed to the Northeast...save my sorry soul

 

That's hilarious. That prayer will go with me on my journey. May it make me as lucky as the next guy. If we were a polytheistic society I'm sure that all truckers would have imagined up a trucker god a long time ago. That god would have been a prayer answering deity, when our prayers got answered. When our prayers didn't get answered, that god would have been a god with a plan that we didn't understand. May the trucker god be in a good mood on the day it decides to pay attention to any truckers particular problem on any given day.

$1100 take home as a company driver? In my three years of trucking, happened twice. Maybe I missed an unmentioned memo somewhere that lurks in the background....or I was just unlucky. Ya never know....

The price of ownership is a different matter altogether. There is a different deity for the person wanting to entree the peneuer. Ya know......

 

Why don't you stick to posting in the JCT area, and not trolling other forums... especially carriers you have absolutely no experience with?

 

Sorry you misinterpreted that as a troll statement. I really wasn't intending to troll. I found the prayer hilarious and responded. If it came across as troll like, it wasn't my intention at all. My humblest apologies. I wish I was hiding under a bridge right now due to my red face. I'm just speaking from experience, as little as it may be. Prime may rock and I have no knowledge of prime. That is a disclaimer. My original response was based on the prayer. Again, prime may be the biggest and baddest company driver organization on the planet. I wish the best to all prime drivers. I'm not competing with or trying to get people to turn away from a company. I'm new at this entire thing. 3 years experience is little experience in the world of trucking. Again, my apologies.

 

By the way, my last company job rocked. After taxes, things aren't as pretty as they seem. After tax money is golden. So, I'm simply trying to clarify that goals matter in understanding money. It's a rationalization to myself as well as the world. Take it for what you will. I blame the fact that this is a public forum and that this post showed up on the side of my screen and I felt compelled to comment on this based on my mood. Sorry.

 

The fact is the OP may well average $1100 per week on the company side at Prime. $800+ was easily achieved as much as 4 years ago before Prime began a series of rate raises.

BTW... enjoy the prayer. It's quite funny.

 

I already enjoyed the prayer, thus the comment. Only one sentence i wrote addressed money. I never even saw this as a prime thread until you accused me of being a troll....then I woke up. If 1100 dollars net a week was company truck driver norm across the industry....I wouldn't have said a word. If it was even approaching a normative reality, my radar would have shut it out. 1100 dollars a week is approaching sixty to sixty five thousand a year. That's good money out of the gate. It's money that recruiters and advertising announces all across the US of A. Rarely does reality approach those numbers, especially in the beginning.

 

That's achievable and more,it all depends on you and how hard you wanna run.I think your dispatcher will give you normal to low miles at first to see how your performance is.If he's pleased then he'll up your miles.