Considering Prime, Sell me

I've seen $11, but... every time you put a minimum of 50 gallons of diesel in your truck you'll get a free shower credit put on your rewards card for that chain. They expire in 5 days most places.

 

Well, if you cook in the truck you can get by easily on $40 - $70 a week depending on how much you spend on DVDs, etc. You want to shop at Walmarts as much as possible - you can usually get your truck into their lots. Maybe another $40 for truckstop items, coffee - a lot of that you can get on rewards points (same deal as the showers.) All depends on how good you are at being a tightwad - try to spend as little as possible in the truckstop.

 

Use fueling credits for showers.

JCW gets $75/week for his nicotine habit and food/coffee.

His income has been our ONLY INCOME for almost our entire marriage. Not wanting to get into your bidness, but 2 separate households? That seems wasteful. We have a mortgage, utilities, food, ANIMAL food (cow/goat/sheep), gymnastics, plus me driving 100 miles a day for said gymnastics and my running training.

His cpm this week (including bonuses) was 42.5 cpm. He got over 2k miles. This works for us. Maybe taking a hard, hard look at what you are spending might reveal some things you can cut.

 

All of you need to consider socking away some cash to cover the bumps in the cash flow. We do get slow times - especially after the turn of the year, July can be a bit rocky too.

 

Im am bringing roughly 850.00 a week as a company driver. Some weeks more, but seldom less unless I am on home time, then it just depends. 200.00 goes on my card for me to spend, the rest goes to the wife to pay the bills and do as she see's fit.
I keep the left door shut and make runs that according to my FM, other drivers have a hard time making. Don't know if he is stroking my ego or not, but I run continually, and get the miles. I have had 1 week with less than 2100 miles, again, unless I was on home time. I go home every 4 weeks.
Hope that helps you.