What's good hourly pay for company drivers now

You get to decide what's good and what's too little. It varies by region. Move to other regions if necessary. In middle TN you can get $18-24 per hour pretty easily with a clean record and clean drug test.

 

It does make a guy wonder sometimes. I have my suspicions that a lot of drivers wish they were in the business, or are here just for the sake of running the ones in the business down.

 

Maybe, what is a paid troll ? I’m dang sure not an O/O or hiring personnel. Just a 4 year driver here. I know my comment early on got under some people’s skin, but I still say trucking is not a skilled trade. Real simply put, you could take 1000 ( insert what ever # you want ) electrical or hvac employees train them for 1 month & probably 99 percent could do our job. Now reverse rolls, take 1000 truck drivers, train them for 1 month in electrical or hvac & cut them loose on million dollar businesses & homes. You think a high percentage could do it ?

 

Like my granda said, anyone can drive a truck, but there are not a lot of drivers. lol
At one time trucking was a skilled trade, as far as I am concerned, as time went along, trucks became all too easy so folks got in just to be paid to sit behind a wheel, and it went down hill from there.

I have an idea that if you took that same 1000 other trades men and stuck them in an older mechanical truck 90% of them would be wrecked or melted down in the first week or two, some would be before they got out of sight. lol

 

Definitely agree with that, lots of changes over years.

 

I make $188 per hour. You can have any girlfriend you want with that. I am currently dating a full time swimsuit model that lives in Miami now.