What is YOUR income, any/all experience?

I would think for most truck drivers the "Big picture" is good enough for them. In order to be an OTR truck driver I would think you would have to somewhat like the lifestyle and enjoy the job.

Using your own logic lets look at people who are serving in the military right now. I have know idea what the typical soldier makes but lets just use your $49,000/year figure. The soldiers that are deployed in Iraq for instance are only making $5.59/per hour since by your definition they are "working" 24 hrs a day 365 days per year since they cant come home.

You have to look at the big picture. I don't like my job but I have been doing it for so long and I am too close to retirement to change careers. I make $40,000/year and only work 4 days a week, but if you count the time that I'm not working but thinking about how much I hate my job and dread going back to work on Monday, I am probably really making about $4.00/hr.

I don't drive yet but I plan to in about 10 years when I retire from this job. I am hoping I find that I will be driving mainly because I enjoy it for the most part. I would think if you are constantly breaking down your pay that far life would be hard to enjoy at all no matter what business you are in.

 

i live in up state ny.i know some correction officers,have heard a lot of stories.the guys i know have been doing it about 15 yrs,pay is around $60,000 a year.that is with at least 10 hrs ot a week.from what they tell me, that is where they make there money.

 

Sheesh
Post's like this make me wish we still had a way to leave negative feed back!!!!!!!

 

His days off don't include his last day or the day he leaves. They don't care how many days off he takes, but anything more than 8 days requires him to leave his truck in a dropyard or terminal. They don't reassign his truck, they just want it on their property for the extended time.

It's not perfect, and he won't stay with this company forever. But he will stay there 2 years so he has a clean driving record. Then he will look for the kind of job that he wants to do. It is a lucky person who lands the dream job with no experience.

 

No, everyone is entitled to their opinion. For many people, the time worked vs. the time paid for wouldn't compute. I look at my job as a teacher. If I truly only worked the 7.5 hours a day, 183 days a year, I would be really high paid. When you divide out the hours worked and the amount paid, teachers don't make diddly. But we don't do it for the money, we do it because we love it. You can't always put a price tag on things.

 

I'll send you some info on my company - there are in all 50 states - which of course includes Hawaii and Alaska - you wouldn't need to move - if they are hiring of course.
To add to my other post, I only work 43 hours per week. I leave for work at around 5:15 am and get home usually around 3:00 - maybe a little later, maybe a little earlier, just depending on the day. On Friday, I get off at the time of day which will give me 43 hours for the week. I never work weekends. I don't work nightshifts, I don't sleep in truck parking lots and I am paid for everything I do.
I get 2 weeks paid vacation per year, until my 7th year when I will earn 3 weeks paid vacation.
3 personal days.
2 floating holidays.
5 sick days.
6 paid holidays.
My company promotes from within - I am working on training to get out of driving trucks forever (I like driving the open road, I don't much care for all the city driving I have to do - one of the few drawbacks to my job).
Our 401k isn't any better than anyone else's: dollar for dollar for the first 2% and then 50 cents on the dollar for 3, 4 and 5%.
Our healthcare is through Cigna. Our company imposes no lifetime limits. Check it out - many companies impose a million dollar limit on their healthcare coverage. Get a couple of serious things going for hospital visits in your family - God forbid of course - and you can pass that little marker up quickly.
There's more. Just saying.......

 

i've only been driving 8 years, did warehouse shipping/receiving most of my life. where i am now was my goal, i knew i would have to "pay some dues" and keep my nose clean. first driving job was dick simon (what a nightmare) did 6 mos with them (fulfilled my contract, left on good terms) and got on with gordon still kinda crappy, but much more tolerable. did 5 years with them, best year financially was 45K(left gordon on good terms as well) then this job came open, they were running an ad and hiring quite a few drivers at the time, i applied and they grabbed me up because i had the experience and a clean record. i was at the right place at the right time.

do your time, stay out of trouble and you can get there too, in hindsight the time goes by pretty fast. good luck

 

Well I am currently making about 13.50 and hour. That equals 28,600 a year.