How much $$ am I really going to make 1st year..??

Way too vague a question. How much is a JBH driver
makeing when they lay him over in a truckstop
for the weekend and not paying him for his time?
I made more my first year as a LTL driver home
every day than you will make for Swift your first
year OTR. I just got lucky. Later my luck ran out.
You need to figure out which you are suited for
and start putting in aplications and if you can-
network. It mostly depends on you.

 

yes but.................

LTL drivers can work many more hours than the average OTR driver too.......

this is why i won't do P&D for any LTL company in my area. linehaul, perhaps, but i won't do layovers either.

so, you may be home every day, as an LTL driver, but after that 10 hour off, you could be back to work feeling very tired, especially if you lumped freight all those hours the day before........

 

How much will you make?

I got lucky. I was licensed last Nov, went to work for a furniture manufacturer and will make 57,000 this year.

My advice: Talk to lots of people and use your imagination. Stay away from the freight companies with recruiters if you can. If the ad says they want two years experience, call anyway; I did and got hired.

Look around your home area and notice what trucks are operating at terminals close to you.

 

Anybody know anything about Transland out of Springfield, Mo?

 

For an OTR driver...

A simple way to look at it is just putting numbers to it.

Say you make 30 cents a mile. If you run 2200 miles per week as an average all year, that comes to just over $34,000. Can you run more than that? sure you can. Will you? depends on how quickly you adapt to the job, how well you plan you work time, and how much time you spend out on the road.

2200 miles per week is attainable average in your first year(360 miles per day average for 6 days, and 1 day off). 30 cents per mile is just a number to throw out. you might make more per mile, you might make a little less per mile in your first year.

Each penny per mile above or below .30 will change that yearly total by $1100.00 in one full year at an average of 2200 miles per week.

Nobody can tell you how much to expect, as much of it will depend on how hard you work.