Dont believe the new drivers

Me nether, would like to know where that figure came from?, plus my average was 3200 per week not 25-2700

sorry for the dup.

 

One thing to remember is not to add things into the weekly "living on the road total" that you would have bought anyway. I didn't include cigarette's in the total, back when I did smoke, because I would have bought them anyway. I like to read, didn't include books in the total, I'd have bought them anyway. And I didn't eat more on the road than I would have eaten at home, so can't really count that. About all the road expenses I can think of, that I don't buy at home is working girls. And i never did that.....Using my way of looking at it, road expenses are really low. I read a post earlier about a guy not making money because he had child support taken out of his check. So he really thinks his company should care about his child support obligations, and he thought he should make more money than someone with out child support, just because he has it.

 

I spend next to nothing surviving out here. I'm a new driver. Just started in June. My first paycheck was 1200 bucks. I ran hard. I don't always run hard, but I often see paychecks between 700-900. If I have a bad week, or downtime, I see a week's pay as low as 300-500.

I'm ahead on my bills.

I'm new and the job can still be hard, but it never costs me more than 75 bucks a week to survive... this includes supplies like paper towels, TP and boxes of tissues... great if you cry a lot like me... or wake up with a runny nose when it gets cold.

I'm doing fine, besides some stress I had earlier. I can easily afford my inexpensive student loan payments and I NEVER EVER EVER wonder if I'll starve a week... I have a cooler with lunch meat, romaine lettuce and other sammich makings. I have tons of water, oatmeal and trail mixes, just in case I ever get stranded/break down.

However... if you can't handle the cold, the heat and a lot of negative and positive stresses, THEN I would advise foregoing trucking school. Otherwise, this is a BS thread.... just my opinion, not an attack on the poster, because I can see why he posted this, BUT....

We, as new drivers, are forced to start at the bottom. I'm going to move on after my first year, if I last.

I have my fair share of stresses and I've even threatened to quit twice... I regained my composure and worked things out with my dispatcher...

If you're willing to work hard for 500-1000 a week, then this is for you.

I know my place. I am a rookie. I have to wallow around at the bottom of the sludge for a little while.

I plan to come out of it stronger and less of a whiner

 

This thread made me laugh. I'm still new to this but I only spend about $100 a week and thats just eating truck stop meals...I could cut that in half if I did the walmart thing.

 

Yup, that's what I thought, after putting in my normal 15 hours of work (on the days I don't have to commute for 2 hours more), it's a matter of my "personal responsibility" to find time for excercise and to shop farm market (that doesn't exist in the area) for fresh vegetables to cook. you can NOT overcome 11 hours of sitting on vibrating and jumping chair, 14 hours of stress and smelling fumes with a brisk truck stop/ghetto walk and/or by eating saturated with chemicals California lettuce, not gonna happen. But the people who bought into "personal responsibility" BS would never challenge the rules and working conditions, they "know" for sure that with a proper truck stop exercise + proper industrially grown vegetables (instead of the industrially grown animals) 11 hours of vibration and stress can be easily cancelled out by the powers of "personal responsibility". With people and mindsets like these, American owning and ruling class have nothing to worry about, trucker's prostate cancers, strokes and diabetes will be seamlessly converted to the shareholder's value$.

 

For a trucker, sky can fall any second. Don't you know?

 

Same here, leaving 90k a year. Cant put a price on happiness and sanity.

 

Wow. Just wow. I'm still in the TRAINING PHASE meaning I'm not even getting mileage pay yet, and somehow my bills are caught up, and I even had extra money to go play Texas Hold Em last night...hmmm...I wonder how thats possible.

 

yea about 50 a week on food in the truck and try to get a hot meal twice a week.

 

i probably spend around 100 a week on food, i try to eat from my walmart supplies but sometimes the stresses of the road require you to treat yourself.