DVL Express offering 3k/week to company drivers??? Legit???

I see I'm late to the powwow but this thread isn't too old, so....

I have never worked with DVL but I fully believe the posts by commentor 'chillin on a dirt road.' I've worked with 2 different 1099 companies (both eastern european) that payed top industry pay (1st started me at .78 cpm + bonuses, 2nd company payed me 30% of load gross). I've seen the potential out here and would never want to go back to companies that pay in the range of .50 cpm

First eastern euro company I worked for that payed incredibly well, started me @ .78 cpm + bonuses, 2 weeks on-road with 1 week home time. I was weekly averaging I think $2.2k - $2.8k. If I remember correctly sometimes as high as $3.2k and my highest earning week in my life was $3.7k or $3.8k in one week. Employer always payed on-time, no funny business, no shenanigans. Super professional, no micromanagement - they behaved like professional adults and expected the same out of the driver. Do your job and you won't have issues

The second eastern-euro company payed me 30% of load gross. 2 weeks on, up to a full week home time. Full transparency, they forwarded me the load confirmations with full disclosure. I have my 1099 for taxes and last year of 2022. I grossed $65,771 and I worked I think 8 or 9 months out of the year. On taxes I owe approx $12k between federal and state. So take-home is $53,771, and remember - I didn't even work the full year. Super professional company. Owner himself was a trucker for a long time so he understands what a trucker goes through, the stresses of the job, and treats drivers well and not like a piece of money-making meat holding a steering wheel

Sure, both jobs were 1099 position. So what? 1099 position allows a person to itemize business expenses when they file taxes (I had a professional who knows what they are doing). Factor in per diem and I was making awesome money.
1099 isn't the nightmare people make it out to be. Matter of fact, it allows you to deduct business expenses e.g. work clothes, gloves, GPS, cell phone, etc etc. A lot of this is impossible with a W2, so I can't imagine why I'd want to go the route of W2.

I say ditch these low-paying mega carriers. Have some faith and take a chance, see what you can earn with these some of these companies offering .70 - .90 cpm or 30% of load gross. You may be pleasantly surprised



On a side note: what is it with the carriers in America which have the audacity to tell drivers they "earn" one day off for every week they work (because we're not humans that get tired? office personnel go home every night and get weekends off, then have the nerve to tell potential recruits they have to earn a paltry day off for every [up to 70 hour] week they put in? Lol

 

A driver making 65 cpm and driving 2600 miles/week on W9 would gross 65,910 in 39weeks, so its not that outstanding there.

Moral of the story is that one or the other isn't necessarily better, it all boils down to personal experience/preference. I prefer to not have to worry about the IRS coming after me for misclassification and losing all the deductions taken on W9 to the tune of a 6-figure delinquent tax bill (it happens). I also like having legal protection to ensure I get paid all my wages (no escrow to be stolen or final settlements held for 45 days to forever) on time, every time.

 

39 weeks. If on average there are 4 weeks in 1 months, then 39 ÷ 4 = 9.75 months worked.

I'd rather work 9 months (36 weeks) for $65.9k than to work 39 weeks. Factor in a home time of up to 1 week of after 2 weeks working, and I end up working even less than 36 weeks. I don't know but that sound much better than working 39 weeks for $65.9k. Also, I did hire a professional to do my taxes so's not to worry about making my own mistakes on taxes. Going 7 years now and not once have I been audited by any tax agency.


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I've watched youtube video of what some mega carrier employee drivers are earning, interest the range of $1.1k - $1.3k, pre-tax. While that's nothing to mock at and we can be grateful even for that, I'm just saying there can be and there is better out here. Yes, you can average $1.7k - $2.2k weekly even in tough times like these. When times were better it was not uncommon to see checks averaging $2.2k - $2.8k, sometimes as high as $3.2k in one week.

 

I'm not showing you the following screenshot to gloat of past earnings, I'm showing you this to say - look, here is proof that there is serious money to be made out here as an employee driver. Take a look at the following - from 06/29/2022 through 08/03/2022 (approx 1 month of work), I grossed $10.4k. Can you show me one single mega carrier that pays like that? I sometimes see or hear "say no to cheap freight." Well, say "no" to cheap mileage pay from mega carriers. They are multi-billion dollar companies and they pay drivers less than smaller mom-and-pop companies out here.

 

While numbers like that are very pretty, let's not forget those are pre-tex numbers and that you'll owe soon enough.

Not everyone in trucking is as fortunate as I am, but I gross more than that with fully-paid insurance and a pension.

I don't say that to gloat, just to say that there is serious money to be made out here as an actual employee and not an "independent contractor ."

Those 1099 positions are mostly all mislabeled, and companies do that to take advantage of workers.

 

You gotta work on your math skills there a bit. There are 52 weeks in a year... divide by 12, and that's 4.3333333333333 weeks in a month, not 4. that means 39/ 4.333333333 = 9.000000000006923 months, not 9.75..

 

For the last clanedar year of 2022 I grossed $65,771 and owe about $12k. That's a tax rate of about 19% after itemized deductions and per diem shrunk my overall taxable income. So for that moth of $10,400 my take-home, after taxes pay would've been $8,424.

 

Where are you working so I may jump on board and make that-and-then-some, with fully paid insurance and pension?

 

If we are to be exact/precise with number then yes, you are correct.

 

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