What does local class a cdl drivers average.

Thats a loaded one. Location will play a big roll here. I will sat 20k to 90k. I know freight haulers that work 14 hours a day and are in the 80 to 90 range. Once your old enough those freight jobs aren't that hard to get depending where you live.

 

Gotta go with DMH. In general they don't make a whole lot. I surely wouldn't pay $6000 for school though in hopes to land a minimal paying local gig. Plus there are a lot of older experienced drivers out there already waiting in line for those local gigs. Your best bet would be to get your foot in the door first. Get a job running a fork lift or working in the warehouse of say like a company like Pepsi, Coke, Budweiser or a food service distributor like PFG, Sysco, Foodservice, etc... Once there is an opening it will go first to the people already employed within the company. If driving is the position you want they will help you get your license and train you to drive.

Your absolute best bet is to forget about driving all together and go to school! Ya, I'm sure you have probably heard that before. I did too....

 

Location, location, location. Honestly you'd probably make more working the docks till your 21 then maybe your company will pay for you to get you CDL.

 

I think you are going to find that with most of the local companies that are worth a #### to work for. It is very, very tough to get a local gig. If it wasn't no one would drive over the road! Wouldn't you think every driver would rather drive local and be home every night?

 

maybe try MBM, or a foodservice company that hires newbies. Yeah the work is hard, but i hear the money is pretty good. MBM advertises around here $57000 your first year and 67000 the second year. I ran local starting out making 11.00 an hour hauling farm equipment, then went otr pulling tanker, made around 53000 my first year. Now i run local again pulling tanker making around 60000 or so. hope that helps

 

Go to ANY of the unionized LTL carriers and you will be set for life!

 

i was making 21.65/hr with coca cola out of sylmar,ca

 

Most Local companies pay $14-16 per hour. You work up to 60 hours per week with no overtime. There are companies that pay more but that is the average.

You need to go to the LTL companies in your area and introduce yourself. Also, if you have your cdl a lot of companies need hostlers. Rail companies need hostlers. That experience teaches you to back quicker then anything I have ever seen.

If you can drive a forklift and load trucks, then hostle them into the dock, the next step is line haul. That is your path to OTR.