Getting my CDL soon, what's this REALLY like?

At the end of your day driving you get 10 hours off. If you sleep 8 that leaves 2 hour to eat dinner and breakfast plus take a shower.

If you started driving Monday morning and work 14 hours a day by Saturday evening you will be hitting your 70 limit. So you will park at truck stop and you do a 34 hour rest to get another 70 my Monday morning. You will have to wash clothes at truck stop and hang out and relax. Unless you get job that get you home every week.

If you only drive 8 hours a day you can run 7 days a week. It’s not written in stone you have do 34 hour rest every weekend it just an opinion available if you want it or the company run your 70 hours out on 6 days

 

Nope you only get paid detention pay if you make you appointments on time. That why some drivers plan on being 5 hours early if the place has parking they might show up 10 hours early and take that 10 required break at the customer.

if you have 8am appointment I looked for nearest truck stop to park at hopefully no more then 30 miles away and planned on being there at 7am so you would have leave truck stop at 6am. If you have rush hour traffic you have to leave even earlier. What I did was if I had drive thru rush our traffic in big city. I looked to see if customers had overnight parking. I would stop take shower in afternoon then drive to customer and park for the required 10 hour break. That way I did not have worry about an accident anything making me late.

 

Wow.
Why does it seem to me that you are just punking everyone here?

 

You will probably only make $50,000 a year maybe more. Walmart drivers make $120,000 a year that basically top pay

 

I know people driving Uber bringing in more than a lot of OTR drivers, especially rookies. Seriously just drive Uber 80 hours a week and you’ll probably be close to or at 100k. Which is definitely more than you would gross first year trucking. The money gone man. The only thing that might make sense is having zero bills and living in the truck. You can dump your rent and car payment. Hitting 70k your first year is barely attainable and then you can add about 10-20k a year for 2-3 yrs and then it’s topped out for regular drivers. To make more you have to do crazy things. The only way to do what you want to do is buy your own truck. All the good paying jobs have piles of applications waiting and there’s more drivers everyday.

 

I think when you say 100k -400k in pay because it so far off. Most drivers quite because of low pay and long hours.

That’s why I say you can probably drive 120,000 miles a year. That’s not so easy also. They if you look on internet or call trucking company you can multiple the cents per mile rate x 120,000 miles will tell your yearly pay. Maybe you can do 125 or 130,000 that would be difficult in my option but it’s possible