Considering career change

I did say good company. My trainee gonna make that.

 

maybe he's tired of wiping butts.

 

I’ve been looking for a career change myself, let me know when you find one.

 

Dozens of former nurses on this forum that changed careers to trucking. None of them have posted they regret the decision.

 

Not trying to scare you away from truck driving. But I think everyone here will agree with I am about to say.

Truck driving is not for everyone. Long hours (even if your local). if your OTR, time away from home, missed birthdays, kids sports ect. Your sleep pattern is all over the place, as sometimes your delivering at 2am. The list goes on. I think starting out with a net pay of $1100 maybe unrealistic. To bring that home weekly I would think you would need to gross somewhere around $1700 to bring home $1100 after taxes benefits ect. But it maybe possible. I wish you the best of luck

 

I have some pictures of when I got my new company truck last year. It was June 11 and that truck now has 119,500 miles. So I believe the 120,000 miles a year is a very honest number. We run regional loads and usually drive not much more then 600 miles from company yard. That's working 6 days a week and basically 70 hours in 6 days. It not easy day after day. I made $64,000 last year. I worked lots of weekends, we get $100 extra just for not getting home. That can be an extra $4,000 just from not getting home. Most trucking company don't pay that.

You can see my pay 119,500 miles at $0.48 cents per mile is $57,360 plus probably $4,000 in extra weekend pay that's $61,360. I actually made $64,000. It's not as complicated as people make is sounds.

 

Didn't you get accessorial pays on top of weekend pay?

 

We get dention pay of $20 per hour after 2 hours. We get 1-3 cents per mile bounes per quarter if we drive enough miles. I have gotten that before. We get breakdown pay if your truck is not working. They will pay for parking at truck stop if you need it

 

We thank you for actually coming back and responding to the suggestions. Does not happen very often with first time posters.