Is My Math Correct or Am I Missing Something???

I'm sorry Wooly Rhino, but I have to disagree with your work philosophy and I mean no disrespect. You are twelve years my elder and your generation is close to the last that could come out of high school and simply go get a job. That does not happen anymore and will never happen again, because now an employer wants you to spend 200k on an education so they can give you a 10 dollar an hour position. If you were a banker making 65k in a month it should be safe to assume that you have money put away (stocks, bonds, investments) and you could probably retire and live happily ever after. I'm sure you worked hard as a banker and even harder as a trucker, and you deserve everything that you have worked for, but it's a new day and age and people simply can no longer do what they love. A career in today's society is simply one that you can tolerate. Many of these people coming into this industry have no money and think that they are going to better themselves and then find out that welfare recipients are living better than they are. Where I live, if you make less than 10 an hour and have two children you are far better off to go on welfare. It sounds to me like you got into trucking for the love of the road, as did I, but I came into this broke, not as a sideline passion. Making money must be your end all goal when you are trying to "make a living", because there is no other reason. Someday UNICEF and United Way may decide to get into the trucking business, but until then I'm in it to make money and expect an honest days pay for an honest day's work. Remember what Neill Peart the drummer for the rock band Rush said, "changes aren't permanent, but change is". Keep on trucking brother and remember everyone's situation is different.

 

Hey TAC12 profile says you live somewhere in the middle...what state would that be? Ran across something today that might be a good place start.

 

I run flat-bed regionally and found out that my dispatcher and terminal manager gauge a good driver versus a bad driver by how much time you put yourself in sleeper and actually work. For example, you arrive at a shipper and there are several trucks in front of you and you are all sitting in a single file line. If you put yourself into sleeper and actually sleep, the other trucks will simply drive around you and you will lose your spot. So you stay awake and get loaded and then let your clock catch up so you can go down the road. You screwed yourself out of federally regulated sleep time that you are liable for. A good driver according to them will fudge your electronic logs to increase your drive time. 99% of the time a DOT inspection will only result in the officer briefly checking your logs to see that you are currently up to regulation. If you have an accident and someone gets hurt or killed, they will go back 6Mo. into your logs and look for discrepencies. If you are constantly putting yourself into sleeper while loading or unloading you will show a pattern of service that is physically impossible to complete. Flatbed drivers are especially vulnerable to this unless you have the load or unload fairy come down out of the sky and take care of your load. Many will say how will they know that you weren't sleeping or what you were doing, and I will say they will send investigators to your customers and watch the loading or unloading process; furthermore, you might even be on video working while you claim you were sleeping. ( I don't think sleep walking will cut it with the judge or jury). Remember, that you and you only are responsible for the hours of service and if you hurt or kill someone you could go to prison. Say hello to Bubba, and don't drop that soap!

 

You made $65K in one month as a banker. That's good, but how much time did you do with the Federal Bureau of Prisons? I think I saw your picture on the inmate locater website.

 

Darn....thought "somewhere in the middle" meant the Midwest...check out who hauls into VW out there...might pay better than general freight.

 

Roehl probably still does.

 

im going with McElroy there training pay is 500 a week and they start you out at 43 per mile now that 43 cents per mile includes tarp pay now I figure at the least if I drive 400 miles a day that 172 dollars divided by 14 that a little over 12 dollars an hour I don't think that would be so bad just starting out now personally I love to ride and drive so that might have something to do with it plus I will get to a see a lil bit of the country I understand it would be mostly interstate but still im ok with that