is 350 a week normal?

Stay where your at til your their for a year then you will have more options as to where you can go.They will all promise you what you want to hear but in the end its all the same results.Don't job hop it makes it bad for your record.This time of year everything is slow,just hang in their.

 

Oh please. Solar flare? That's the best you can come with? Should we all make ourselves hats out of tin foil too?

 

$350/week IS insulting. Especially when you consider the sacrifices you make being out on the road for weeks at a time, not to mention road expenses, which you did touch on. The money you are presently making is about what you could make in a lot of non-driving occupations (warehouse or landscaping come to mind) and with those you'd be home every night in your own bed, using your own bath facilities, etc.

That being said, be wary of jumping to Werner as I've seen many a post complaining about pay there as well. My advise would be to stay at May while you research other companies to possibly apply to.

 

There's plenty of new trainees out there now driving for .12-.13 a mile. They ain't in the drivers seat fulltime either. $350 a week is insulting, but it's what all these training companies are doing.

 

And they'll continue to do it as long as they find people stupid enough to accept it .
Look at the trainees running 6000 miles a week . That's over 100 hours just driving . Half of that 50 hours would be $8 an hour but more hours are involved with inspections , loading , unloading etc. . Real sensible to spend thousands at school to earn this much then quit because you can't meet your financial obligations .
Watch the turnover rate increase when the 7 days between restarts rule goes into effect .

 

7 days between restarts? what's this may I ask?

 

I get .175 cents a mile ... but I get paid for ALL truck miles, so it comes out to about .34 cents a mile, but I got a good teammate so ...

 

WOW.....

 

pretty sure he means 17.5 cpm hehe

 

new logbook rule, planned to go into effect July 2013... you will then be allowed only ONE restart in a 7-day-period