Whats your average daily pay?

Wow.. you need a raise.
Mine changes wk to wk but for the week ending 4/6 to 4/12 daily pay was $569.49
btw I pull haz mat

 

Probably not the best time to bail just cause alot are unemployed but definitely keep your eyes open for a better paying gig.

 

You could probably gross $200 a day at a local non driving job in your town. Then at least you can sleep in your own bed.

 

That it?

I usually did 300 a day sometimes closer to 400 daily if I left off that time consuming habit called sleeping.

I don't see much of that money anyway at payday. Part of the problem is what would then be considered excessive withholding above and beyond W2 tables.

The morning of 9-11 by noon, we were told that we had a choice. Payroll was destroyed. Be weeks or months before we see any money. Do we go home on unemployment or keep on trucking? We had 14000 minus 9000 for a room replacement from a storm that year leaving about 5K for the two of us.

We were able to run almost two months on that. In the end the money took care of itself. All squared.

HOWEVER. Tax day in Early Feb 2002 filing jointly (Husband and wife team) turned in a income of 67000 dollars, about 4.54 a hour over about 7500 hours or a total of 306 service days on truck away from home that was logged. For each of us that was 34000 dollars gross. Generating about 15000 in savings by Fall of that year in cash ready to go, adding one load a time to it... not stacking but rather dollar by dollar.

Its not worth it.

For us to do that again minimum annual income will need to be 150,000 no less. And for single a salary comparable to 80,000 annually. Forget the miles pay, hours or whatever else. Just cut a check each week for that number total.

Drumroll...

80000 into 365 days would be right around 220 gross a day. Less than what we were used to making 20 years ago.

 

That's very good, so your weekly pay is $2850? What kind of work exactly do you do?

 

Cry

Cryo tanker

 

$200 a day is not the best, its not the worst either. $200×5=1000 take home about $760-800
Beware of making comparisons to others. Make CERTAIN your comparing apples to apples, not apples to oranges. For instance you mentioned (dot foods) that's a lot of small delivery locations, hand unloads, paper work. So dont compare his pay against a driver who just drives, opens door, backs up to dock.
Also dont compare before asking tons of questions. Dennixx said his last week was &569.49 a day $2847.45. Do you really think even 30% of guys out here do that as a COMPANY driver? Never mind keeping up with the Jones's. Figure out what you need/want to make. Then go find that.