Truckers Payscale for New Drivers

Acceptable and what you will make are two different things. lol

.22-.30/mile is starting, from what I gather.

 

One of America's 15 most popular jobs....

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/11/11/americas-most-popular-jobs/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-w%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk3%7C183613

 

"Quote:
14. Tractor-trailer truck drivers

This category only includes those drivers who operate trucks with a capacity of more than 26,001 pounds. These drivers are responsible for the timely delivery of goods along routes that may cover multiple states.
Total employment: 1,550,930
Salary: $39,260
Requirements: A commercial driver's license is necessary for all drivers. Some states also require a training program"

WOW! That is a low figure! Considering they probably took experienced and non experienced pay. So does this mean the recruiters and mega-carrier ads really do lie? Hmmmmm.

 

All i can say is A HELL OF A LOT LESS THAN WE SHOULD MAKE!

 

Really not much more then someone that cleans toilets....

 

I'll be starting my first driving job on Monday. After training I'll be at 40 cpm; talking to other drivers I know that I can expect between 10-12k miles monthly. Ads pay covers tarping, untarp, load, unload, waiting (after couple hours), smoke tarp and a couple other things I can't remember. Fuel bonus is 1.5 cpm on a monthly basis. This, of course, means that idling is kept at a bare minimum, but all sleeper cabs have an espar or wabasto installed. From what I was told, I am allowed to idle overnight (for A/C for example) but cannot expect a fuel bonus if I do it more than a few times a month. I'm glad they at least give an option.

This is for medium-ish sized Canadian carrier (180-200 trucks) pulling flatdecks. From what I can tell the mega carriers (you know who) are no where close to this, but smaller ones are in the same range pay-wise. Schmud0811 has a nice thread here about driving in the flats division for Swift and is a new driver. He doesn't seem to happy about the miles recently but is having a good time otherwise.

 

A new driver fresh out of school that is going OTR can expect to get .25CPM-.40CPM. And can expect to GROSS between $25,000 and $40,000 there first year, most new OTR drivers start on the lower end of the CPM and yearly GROSS.

But a new driver should be looking at more then just the CPM or what they'll make there first year.




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