How Much Will I actually Earn?

Actually the 5400 mile dedicated route was only for half the year. Before that we were running random. extra pay added about 2500 extra to her overall pay. Factoring out holidays and vacation time we probably only actually worked 48 weeks out of the year which puts our average weekly miles around 5000.

Still not bad for a first year driver.

The downside to team driving is being bounced around while trying to sleep.

The upside is longer runs.

A strong solo driver could actually make more money than half a team and be better rested. Provided he maxed out his driving hours each week he could turn 3500 to 4000 miles per week consistently (regular route with drop and hooks at both ends). Figure .35 cpm at

3000 miles= $1050.00 x 50 weeks = $ 52,500.00
3500 miles= $1225.00 x 50 weeks = $ 61,250.00
4000 miles= $1400.00 x 50 weeks = $ 70,000.00

I factored out 2 weeks for vacation time.*

*Not all carriers pay vacation time at 1/52nd of previous years earnings.

 

So she worked for 48 weeks at 2500 miles per week, and was paid 23 cents a mile.
Wished I owned me a pocket calculator. That looks closer to 30K, but whatever, thanks for sharing the info.

 

Sorry about the confusion. I forgot that some folks are not familiar with how teams are compensated.

Teams get paid for EVERY mile the truck is driven regardless of who was actually driving.

So she was getting paid .23 cpm for approximately 5000 miles per week.

Another way to look at it is: the team is paid .46 cpm. The team then divides the weekly pay in half.

5000 miles x .46 cpm = $2300.00 divided by 2 = $1150.00 each week.

In our case I actually get paid slightly more than her so I made over $68,000.00 for the year.

Combined gross earnings were a little over 126k.

I hope this help clear things up.

 

yea people don't leave home broke!!some companies only advance you up to 100$ if u can live off that for a week more power to you not me though and I only weigh 135

 

you could almost do it if you went to walmart and didn't buy pop and stuff in truck stops. Of course i only eat once a day

 

Hey, all these numbers look good to me...I'm making oh, about 18K a year. Anything over 25K sounds like a fortune to me, at this point...I'm glad to see that the numbers I see on these trucking school ads aren't too exaggerated.

 

what company did you decide on??

 

my uncle recieved his Cdl through conway I believe but then he was layed off or fired then he teamed up with my other uncle workeing for Pep-boys Otr for about a year going from San Bernardino,Ca to NYC they claim that they were making about 4000k each a month after taxes or 1000 # 24cpm a week but that's not including over the road expenses but then his route was cancelled he is now driving regional (solo) for heartland express which seems to have good cpm but he complains about the miles on the other hand i dont ask this guy to many questions i think he acts gay sometime becuase im only 21 and plan on retiring when i get his age