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Small Block LSX · **^ Top** #51 07.09.2008

Go local, my friend just got a job pushing small loads around the Twin Cities. I think the company is CCX and he is getting paid $24.50/hr. With a standard 40 hour work week that would be $50,960/yr and that is before any overtime. He also has great benefits and is in the Teamsters too.

OTR would be FUN (for the most part), but with the amount of hours its akin to making minimum wage and working your ### off. Not worth it and I respect anyone who does it. I WOULD do OTR if I were an O/O and could look at larger profit margins.

Small Block LSX · **^ Top** #52 07.09.2008

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Originally Posted by Snowman&Fred

okay, i must really know something. I just saw on another post that some guy has been working for Swift for over a year, and earns just 500/week. Can you tell me if this is what i should expect my first year??? I was just called by a casino east of me, and probably asked for an interview and offered a job. I can tell you, in the casino business, as a dealer, i'll make no more than $32-35k. I want to go where the money is the best. I dont want to end up driving, and then come to find out, i barely make 300-400/week for a year or two. Cause that just isnt going to cut it. i HONESTLY need to know what to expect. I dont expect to make $50k out of the gate, but i've gotta make $40k. let me know...post and/or PM me please. i've gotta make a decision here in a few days. thanx

Swift is about the worst company out there. It all depends on what type of driving you are doing. If you are OTR and can get a lot of miles and burn the wheels off you can make good cash. You also need to look at PER DIEM which helps lower your gross wages and gets you better tax returns - or you keep more pay each week.

Honestly, I've heard of companies paying $250-$450/wk for TRAINING pay, but if that was a driver working his ### off... that is a load of crap. You will make more in trucking than you will slingin spades.

carzntrks · **^ Top** #53 07.10.2008

I can tell you when I first got into the trucking industry in 1990 I was making about $45k a year, then in Feb 2000 I got a job in the car haul section of the industry in the first year I made about $55k and that was when I first was learning to haul cars, last year I made $75k plus all the union benefits and this year so far I am at $42k year to date. So I would lean towards the car haul industry but you need to be in good physical shape and have nerves of steel this job takes a special talent that about 30% of the new hires make it.

carzntrks · **^ Top** #54 07.10.2008

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Originally Posted by Small Block LSX

Swift is about the worst company out there. It all depends on what type of driving you are doing. If you are OTR and can get a lot of miles and burn the wheels off you can make good cash. You also need to look at PER DIEM which helps lower your gross wages and gets you better tax returns - or you keep more pay each week.

Honestly, I've heard of companies paying $250-$450/wk for TRAINING pay, but if that was a driver working his ### off... that is a load of crap. You will make more in trucking than you will slingin spades.

Hey small block if you are looking for a job in Cottage Grove, Mn we have a terminal right there at the rail head, I worked out of there and was taking loads of cars to places like Minot, Bismark and Devils lake N.D. al load like that will pay you $600 all day for a company driver plus all the perks of the Teamsters, you do a couple of those for a week and you got a pay check

Ken Worth · **^ Top** #55 07.10.2008

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Originally Posted by carzntrks

I can tell you when I first got into the trucking industry in 1990 I was making about $45k a year, then in Feb 2000 I got a job in the car haul section of the industry in the first year I made about $55k and that was when I first was learning to haul cars, last year I made $75k plus all the union benefits and this year so far I am at $42k year to date. So I would lean towards the car haul industry but you need to be in good physical shape and have nerves of steel this job takes a special talent that about 30% of the new hires make it.

What would you say is the hardest part about it...damaging the cars? Climbing around while chaining?

Ken Worth · **^ Top** #56 07.10.2008

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Originally Posted by Small Block LSX

Go local, my friend just got a job pushing small loads around the Twin Cities. I think the company is CCX and he is getting paid $24.50/hr. With a standard 40 hour work week that would be $50,960/yr and that is before any overtime. He also has great benefits and is in the Teamsters too.

OTR would be FUN (for the most part), but with the amount of hours its akin to making minimum wage and working your ### off. Not worth it and I respect anyone who does it. I WOULD do OTR if I were an O/O and could look at larger profit margins.

Do you have to be somebody's brother or boyfriend to get on with the Teamsters?

soon2betrucking · **^ Top** #57 07.12.2008

yeah, its no secret where i work, i just choose not to tell anyone, the only reasson i posted is to let people no that 50k is possiable, with evey weekend off and all major holidays.
sorry i have not been on all week to post, but i dont pay for a wireless card, id rather save my money.

carzntrks · **^ Top** #58 07.12.2008

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Originally Posted by Snowman&Fred

Looks like i am going to bust my butt for the first year. So what if i am only 'home' 4 days of the month, or working 2 solid weeks straight. My plan is to bust my butt, and by the end of the year, have a good chunk of my debt paid off. The rest will be paid by my b-day next year. (in april). Then I can put away 50% of my check into savings, and when I get ready in 4-5 to become and o/o, I could put down a nice downpayment on a 2015 Peterbilt. Hey, maybe by then they'll hover.

like in back to the future.

Sorry I am new on this site and do not have enough posts to im you so I will have to answer you here. When I said in good shape, hauling cars loading and unloading is very physically challenging you need good knees, back, shoulders, strength and physical stamina. While loading and unloading there is lots of climbing chaining and being agile enough to get in and out of small spaces. When I said nerves of steel, when you have to back up a F250 on the head rack in the element, rain, snow, ice uneven pavement and what everelse can be there and your tires break loose you have to have nerves of steel to handle the sitiuation and go off the truck. I hope that helps

carzntrks · **^ Top** #59 07.12.2008

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Originally Posted by Ken Worth

What would you say is the hardest part about it...damaging the cars? Climbing around while chaining?

The hardest part of the job would be just learning where to put the cars, driving or backing them on to get your height and weight right, it like a big jigs saw puzzle that you have to picture in your mind so when you put your next unit on the truck you have your chains in the right place and you work the truck not letting the truck work you

carzntrks · **^ Top** #60 07.12.2008

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Originally Posted by Ken Worth

What would you say is the hardest part about it...damaging the cars? Climbing around while chaining?

I will try to post some pics from this winter loading in Cottage Grove ,MN at a rail head with snow piled up and about 15 below zero, by the way I forgot to say about the extended time outside.

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