Company reefer driver here getting paid salary. I've noticed that I've been sitting at the docks a lot more than usual during this alleged "labor shortage". I was wondering how o/o's have been surviving. I rang my buddy who just left the company to purchase his own truck. He was telling me it's only a "little bit more" than what I make. I take home $1,175 a week as long as I stay in the truck available for a load.
How have you been doing?
How much money have you been taking home lately?
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by LimpyLegs, Dec 8, 2021.
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Watch YT, there are plenty of o/o peeps bragging about the home take lately)
PS: sitting, actually laying, at the dock is "break/sleeper", not waste. Unloaded and ready to go, the longer, the better)w9hunpop Thanks this. -
I can't speak for every one. But when I ran produce for 2.5 years as a company driver. I just factored wait time into the equation. Do u run coast to coast?shooter19802003 and ProfessionalNoticer Thank this. -
This really is a loaded question, with hundreds of different answers, any where from $1,000 to $5,000 a week after expenses. Depends on how lazy someone is, equipment, what trailer, write offs etc
currently my run is less then 10 hours by the time i leave the house to the time I’m home, and burn about 170 gallons of fuel a week, I also would rather spend the money on my business vs giving it to the government, that’s why I’m changing 8 air bags On the truck next week instead of just 2, and zipping a new set of steers on and saving my current for trailer tires, and a bunch of other things.
someone may stay out all 168 hours a week and burn 170 gallons a day and pocket all their money which will have different numbersLast edited: Dec 8, 2021
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can’t take too much time off though or I start getting myself into trouble….Brettj3876, Tug Toy, dwells40 and 2 others Thank this. -
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If an owner operator is “barely making more than a company driver” while in the midst of some of the best times in trucking since deregulation, they need to get out of business or seriously re-evaluate their business model and freight. If someone can’t make it now, they will never be able to.
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4000 a week
Subtract 300 for fuel
Goin* on 5 months now
47 hours a week
Leave house 630am back in driveway by 330
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