So, I watched a YouTube Trucker video

As a company driver I generally average $400+ daily, and I don't have to pay for anything...

 

Depends on what type of work your doing…Reefer still pays well IF it’s direct freight
I’m at just shy of 1400 miles this week
Trux gross right at 5600
Probably do another 5-700 work on my way back should be at 85+ by time I’m home Fri am

 

some things pay: but look around this website and you can see why most guys couldn’t get into it if it fell in their lap/

 

Sounds about right for spot market. I’m an O/O power only doing mostly flatbed and I’d say $2.50 is about my average, factoring in some bobtail deadheads and all. Not exactly breaking the bank but decent enough for now, especially for this rookie. I’m only 3 years in and still getting the lay of the land.

In terms of YouTube, there’s some channels (ie Trucking Made Successful) I watch that break down trucking rates, fuel costs, and a bunch of other factors weekly. May be worth a look. Just my .02

 

On a W-2? $2k a week is a pretty good job either way. Apples and oranges though.

 

I talked to a guy at Kenworth in Menomonie awhile back getting his truck looked at for something. Pulling a dry van I don’t think he was even at $1.90 right now. He showed me his spreadsheet. This was a guy with his own numbers also who’d been at it awhile. Not a rookie. I think he said he was strictly a spot market guy though, and you know how goes. When it’s good it’s fantastic and when it’s bad it’s awful. I can see how being tied to direct shippers can be drag at times though.

 

On a W-2. 2200 this week. I could make more, but that's ok.

 

I'm a company driver running linehaul pulling wiggle wagons and I make $550 a day. My schedule is a meet and turn that takes 9hrs/50mins to turn. I've made as much as $660 for a single days run and on a holiday if I decide to work I'll make around $1,100/$1,200 for the day. When I see what you O/O's make and the expenses you have I definitely feel for you.

 

If it makes you feel any better I would much rather make less as an O/O than run the same linehaul route every day. It's great that different people are happy doing different things, that way everything gets done.