6 months experience next month (looking to lease on)...

The question would be, the guy you know was he leasing and training at the same time, or if he is running solo lease? But my friend who told me this is one of the most upright people of integrity I know. And this was with his second trainer. He said his first trainer was getting great loads but he didn't hammer down enough to finish loads in time enough.

Loads like 3,700 and 2,100 and 1,100 which is the 72% is what he was telling me his first trainer was getting. Which is only 6,900 gross, with great fuel rebate or surcharge I think the most his first trainer paid during his training was 0.25 -0.55 cents per mile..... this alone can easily net at least 3,000.......

His second trainer was paying 0.1 cents because he was mastering his fuel consumption, never idoling, staying between 55mph to 58mph I think 57 mph was his standard speed. No jaking,except when necessary, cruise control immediately after top speed....etc. that's the trainer who was netting 2k as a solo weekly and I said an average of 3k while training, but he told me his payroll voucher was one week 5960, another week 3,700, another 3,900 etc....

Again I don't have to lie...... I know in my spirit prime is a good company, I have heard too many good things about them. When I had the opportuity to run with them back when I was flatbedding with Arrow Trucking I didn't take the chance.....

I stopped trucking Dec.2006 went to college......started back trucking this year, so they wanted more experience....first I was told 6months then I was told a year etc. anyhow...goood day to you.....but I also have nothing to lie about..

 

I am not being disrespectful but I make at 800 gross....725-750 net weekly, and home daily weekends off. I will certainly not lease with a company to where I can't at least average 1,300 take home as a solo driver.

900 a week is not worth a lease in my mind, especially considering that I have a wife and children who I would be away from, plus my desire to be plugged in to my local church building.

It's big money in trucking for the business minded, just have to find the right company......

 

If this was to me.....

I have had my CDL since 2001 but since I was a foolish rebel at that time I was not able score any opportunities that I was ready for. I ended getting my first CDL driving job locally straight trucks, but doing some pub backing ocassionally. Got my first real OTR opportunity wth Arrow Trucking where my trainer was leasing and training and grossing over 190,000 a year, and he was an extreme stickler.

The reason I want to lease is because I have come across people who have been extremely profitable, I'm business minded enough, and I actually believe all it takes in a few hours spent with a professional truck driver pouring out all the do's and don'ts and precise formula's that can change the entire mindset of any driver that retains information and can apply it.

I absolutely do not agree that you have to be in trucking for years before you lease. If the 4-8weeks a person spends with their trainer/instructor that may have been trucking for years doesn't give them an advanced level of impartation of at the very least the basics of becoming a professional driver or business owner, than either they wasted their own time, or their instructors.......

It's quite amazing to me.....Most of us learned how to drive trucks by people who already had their CDL, so why is it so hard to understand the same principle can be imparted to those who desire to lease or become an owner op, if they learn from another who is a successful ic or owner op....

I have been paying attention long enough, ready to go now just looking for the right company.....

Peace...

 

Cha-cha-cha.......LOLOLOL....bingo.....

Though I heard the most money is in teaming or training if leasing or as a owner op....but I have loked at he basic numbers and found that to be true only in certain situations.

For instance if it is true that a company says our solo independant contactors gross up to 225,000 a year and then says our team ic's gross up to 325,000......then I think the math is simple.

Just like some companies say our solo driver's, ic's do an average of 2,500-3,500 miles a week and then says our teams do 4,000 to 5,000 miles a week, to me it's that same 225,000 you gross vs. 325,000 you both gross and unless you can get your teammate etc to accept 70,000 gross or less the extra body may not be worth it.....

 

LOL to be honest, I just don't want think that I delivered a load that may be the beer that get's someone drunk and they like it and become an alcoholic, and be delivering the beer that people buy to drink and drive, that ends up killing someone.

I have seen what alcohol does to families....I know of someone's father who got drunk and went to sleep outside and froze to death...

So not just beer, alcohol period......