Hourly pay calculation?

No hate,you got answers and that does not satisfy you.Who are you going to share your "Realistic set of numbers" with?Either you want to drive truck or you do not,there is nothing to calculate.What you earn is what you put into it and who you work for.Nothing more,nothing less.Either you enjoy the job or you hate it.

Driving is not an office job.You have to take into account those times when you cannot run for days at a time due to weather or mechanical issues and then you are not earning anything.

 

Well, you're really confusing the issue now. Leasing or owning/operating a truck and earning a living as a company driver is two completely different animals and can IN NO WAY be considered in the same manner.

 

thats why drivers are paid by the mile and not by the hour. if you made less money by the hour you had better believe thats how u would be paid. jon

 

not worst job in the world...but depending on how you figure it...it could be the worst pay per hour of any job other than that done by an illegal immigrant. if you are otr, no question but you have to figure all time spent fueling, waiting in line for receipts for fuel, unloading/loading time waiting in line at a guard shack, waiting in stop and go traffic, etc. that on a good week brings that 3000 mile week averaging 50 mph from 60 hours (ridiculous) to conservatively 80 hours...or 13.50 per hour. still not horrid. what about all the time spent sleeping in the truck? under a load its hard to argue it shouldnt count. not like you can go anywhere you want with no thought to where the load is, and whats happening to it.so out of the minimum 70 hours per week you are "off duty" lets call half of that "under a load". now you are up to 115 hours, or 9.39 per hour. but some would argue if you are in the truck, count it period. also not completely invalid. now you are up to 150 hours per week, or 7.20 per hour (less than minimum wage) on a 3000 mile week. but what about the 2400 mile week? brings it down to 5.76 per hour, at the worst argument.
at best, you have to count ALL time loading, unloading, fueling, pretrip, traffic, waiting in line for fuel/scale tickets, waiting for and talking to dispatch, safety, whatever on phone, getting directions on phone from customer...list goes on. anyone who says they are working less than 85 hours a week as an otr truck driver is living in a dream world.

 

I'm sure this has been said already but your math is just a little off. So let's take your calculation of what you made that week except since you are a trucker and live at work it should be divided by 168. 168 is the amount of hours in one week. This is the actual time you will have spent at work while making that money! So now we have $1080 divided by 168 = which comes out to $6.42. A little under minimum wage.

If you were to live at home and work 3 jobs for 168 hours at a bare minimum of $8 an hour that would = $1344.00

 

Some of you aren't exactly being fair with your weekly, hourly commitment considerations. We have to sleep wether we're truckers or janitors .. figure 8 hours. The janitor job's sleep time is not going to paid and neither is his commute time to the job. At lease a trucker has no "commute time", he wakes up "at the job". Beyond that, I'll give you that if you were to have a regular job, you could realistically work 70 paid hours per week at at $10.00, but I know of no trucking jobs that pay less than $700 week. And let's be honest, it's easier work to "work" a 70/8 OTR job, than a 70/6 job(s) at home. But then you have to factor in all the other things that have been mentioned here regarding the OTR trucking demands and sacrifices.

 

Last week I ran a tad over 3200 miles. It ran me just over 65 hours on the elog. I drive nights for a company I was home everyday, spent most of my free time sleeping and relaxing. I will be in the range of $1900 gross after my milage pay and drop and hooks. Since I don't sleep in the truck I guess you can say I averaged about $29/hr. The way I look at it even if I was single I would never run OTR ... too many expenses, food away for family /home... Ill take my day cab thanks....