The six-figure club.

You covered it well!
I just wanted professional safe drivers who don’t realize what other options there are to be informed on other segments of trucking. Maybe someone who was gone long periods of time and making lower wages than available to hear from someone who had recently made the switch from OTR Truckload to something else would help them decide to stay or leave. It’s a big world and what works for me or someone else doesn’t necessarily work for everyone. Thanks for your reply.

 

I’ve had venison, and while it’s not bad…

I just don’t ever see myself eating it if I have access to beef.

Guess that’s the cowboy in me

 

Venison will never take the place of beef but its close and it feels good to put actual meat on the table. We also do all the processing and cleaning of the meat so we know its clean and free of antibiotics and other crap they put in store bought meat.

 

that’s nice. Just moved to Ocala, and there’s a large farm not to far away from me. Was thinking of buying a 1/4 cow and trying to eat local. Everything is raised here locally, and they have transparent farming. You can visit the farm, and inspect the animals/tour the facilities.

animal ethics is important to my wife and I.

I’m a slight tree hugger.

 

3rd year in a row. Little less than last year took more time off.

1 more final check that should be around $3,000 with only working 1 week (took Christmas week off).

Not as high as others but love working ag commodities. Less cpm/hrly than other loads but I get more flexibility on clock to work as much or as little as I want. Usually home 2-3 nights a week. Run regional (UT, ID, NV). Average 3-4,000 miles a week.

Great company, new truck (currently W990 I got beginning of Sept and have put 55,000 miles on since then )... Great mechanics and a dispatcher who works as hard as I do on same loads who doesn't micromanage.

BTW Net usually higher but we had new payroll company that had no clue how to do taxes on mileage drivers (no difference from hourly as we are W2 employees but they didn't pull taxes for first 9 months so I'm having them pulled from final 2 checks).

 

I finished the year at 122k as a trashy P&D driver. I quit working Saturdays in September, which was usually about 4 hours. A driver with less seniority than me worked a lot more overtime and made 130k so i left some money on the table I guess, but the burnout was real. Altogether I averaged 54 hrs a week.

I'm completely debt free and am able to save between 40-50k a year so I'm very fortunate to be in this position. Our bid has changed but I should still make over 100k next year on a fairly reasonable start time and not work weekends. I'm looking forward to the break.

Congratulations are in order for those of us who sought out these jobs and make the most of them, I never thought i would be making this much working local in Mississippi.

 

When did a tax refund become a handout?

 

I ended at 100,936.

I guess I'll try and find a tax loss harvest of $1000 somewhere, today, in lieu of any better information than the $100,000 income limit that was floated by our fearless leader in a truth social post about it, so I don't miss out on this tax refund, if it in fact becomes a thing.

 

When the primary motivation is to curry favor and not because the budget is balanced and there is no debt.

Or when you create a tax that you say will be used to pay down the debt and cut income taxes, but then use that tax to a) bail out heavily impacted groups, b) fund vanity projects, and c) give a "refund". Particularly when each of the three separately costs more than the revenue the tax brought in.

Or when the "refund" is bigger than the tax paid. Depending on how one does the math, a tax filer earning less than $100k is only paying about $1000-$1,500 in tarriff related costs. Or at least that's what my friends across the aisle say about the EITC.

 

when I was younger I would just “pay myself” by making a large end of year HSA/IRA pre tax contribution. If your goal is to simply lower your adjusted gross income.

I just pay for a Cadillac plan now so no HSA sadly.