Breakdown of Weekly Expenses as A New Driver…

Looks like you use that shop quite a bit?

2400$+ for a fifth wheel?

4 hours to change fifth wheel?

34 hours for rear main and clutch?

5 hours for a sending unit, clutch brake, and shock?

 

News flash. If you have a pain issue and medical marahoochie is your only option for pain I get it. But you are not going to pass the drug test to be a commercial driver. Period

 

Me personally. I stock up on groceries and water when I leave the house. I may very well decide to splurge on some beers and a fine meal 10 days in, but I've also gone 15 days and not spend a dime.

Winter time coming so my outside showers will be no longer, so I guess I'll be paying for truckstop showers soon.

Keep your ### in the seat and out of the truckstop and you won't spend too much, and make more.

 

Yep, there only shop in town.
Nearest shop besides them is an hour away, and usually don’t get right on it.
I know they’re gouging hours.
That fifth wheel was put on old Pete, it had a ton of slack so I wanted a new one, they had to get the highest one, release from cab type, that was available.
I just wanted a basic one.

 

I understand dude, but coming from another shop owner, they are absolutely hammering you. I hate that for ya.

I owned 24/7 Truck Service in Van Buren. Stress finally got to me. Too many customers (great customers BTW), too much work, and absolutely no free time. Good help is hard to find, so all of the guys were working 70+ hours a week, and me 80+.

I hated it for my customers, but 17 years of 80+ hours is too much.

Hope you find a better alternative.

 

The trucking company pays scale costs; not the driver.

 

Some Prime drivers have the passenger seat removed, so there's room for a refrigerator.

 

Wilson Logistics trucks:
Standard Features

• Electric APU
• 1500-Watt Inverter
• Double Bunks
• 24” TV with DirectTV
• XM Satellite Radio

On the website you can see a 3-D truck tour of the interior of the trucks.
Plenty of room for a refrigerater and coffee machine.

 

Don't go with a company that doesn't have an apu (or at least doesn't care if you idle) and otr an inverter is a must. I would deff take the passenger seat out for fridge with a small freezer. After even just 2 weeks on truck stop junk I'd feel like death