How much do you spend per month?

Just remember, that the truckstop is really paying the staff well.

You get what you pay for in many instances.

 

Yep.. but remember they have access to showers every morning when they get up... Worked in this industry in school.. and I may have got lucky but I never witnessed the horrors everyone speaks of..I do know a guy that took a leak in the pickles.. but someone that witnessed it threw them away when he went out on the floor..

 

I had a client who owned a Subway franchise.

I was there for a meeting on expense controls and the area specialist from Subway.

Bread was dropped on the floor and picked up. They were taking it to the trash.

This specialist, stopped them and took it from them and examined it. He said, put it back on the rack, it is good.

He told the owner that you have to cut costs, and such throwaways are not always bad.

For years, I would not even consider eating at one.

 

no wonder subway tastes like crap...LOL.....

 

400 bucks a month

 

I have a cooler on the truck; buy 1 coffee every morning; drink ice water during the day; eat 1 time a week at the truckstop, get home about once every wk and a half; do my laundry there; buy my cigs in MO where I live cause they are cheaper; use my internet off my Android phone tethered to my laptop and try to spend the 10 hr break in rest areas so the temptation to eat and spend lots of $$$$$$$ is not there. i also eats lots and lots of cereal and gallon of milk lasts all wk in my cooler; bring ham from home and bread so it costs me about $50-60 a wk on the road and that is mostly for scaling and cleaning stuff for the truck

 

I make so much money now that I do not bother tracking how much I spend since I always have thousands of dollars left over.

 

You guys do better than me, when I worked for Boyd Bros they would give us $150 cash advance on Mon. I would take that and usually make it thru the week sometimes I'd be $10-20 short or I'd have it left over. Depended on how hard I ran that week. Doing driveaways delivering new trucks I spend $200-300 a week easy. Because I'm in a new truck every trip and fly back every thing I eat or drink I have to buy out on the road. If you think eating in the truck stops is bad, try eating at the airport 2 to 3 times a week.

So to answer your question I would count on $150 a week when you first start and have no way to cook in the truck. That should buy you two meals a day if your frugal. Then buy a case of bottled water at Walmart or the like.