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Starting pay what did you make your first driving?

Discussion in 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here' started by lil fred, Dec 10, 2012.

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  1. Dec 10, 2012 #1
    lil fred

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    I'm not looking for any serious discussion about what companies are paying. Just curios what others made when they started out of school or whatever. Looking back now I laugh at what I was making.

    Personally My first job was in 1986 with TransAmerica Transport. I made .07 per mile with a trainer. After that it was $.10 per mile team and $.18 per mile solo. Yep raking in the dough!

    My first trip was Fontana to Phoenix and back. Worked out to about 46 bucks!
     
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  3. Dec 10, 2012 #2
    Trashtrucker1265

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    .27 per mile in 2004 with Commercial Carriers out of Auburndale, Fl. I was on a dedicated Budweiser account 90% of the time, and hauled Kloset Maid loads out of Ocala, Fl to the northeast here and there. The money wasn't great but they were decent people to work for.
     
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  4. Dec 10, 2012 #3
    MNdriver

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    .185 per mile in 1990. Running flatbed.

    Got up to a whopping 25% in 92 running for an O/O.
     
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  5. Dec 10, 2012 #4
    dptrucker

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    .19/mile with swift back in '97
     
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  7. Dec 10, 2012 #5
    Dinomite

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    .11cpm CRST 14 years ago. After 4 months I was kicked out for kicking my co driver. Then went to Rocor and started at .20cpm :)
     
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  8. Dec 10, 2012 #6
    JohnBoy

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    March 1980, first OTR job with CRE, 12cpm. Big time trucking with a cabover mack and no power steering. Those were the days my friends.
     
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  9. Dec 10, 2012 #7
    LandShark

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    Started trucking in 1987 as company driver with Ready Trucking at .23cpm
    driving a 1985 KW COE. No jake brakes.
     
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  10. Dec 10, 2012 #8
    Bumpy

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    .26 in 2003 for a small stepdeck company out of Litchfield,MN called Towmasters. They made trailers and we hauled them to dealerships all over U.S. The Trucks are gone there now but their still in biz. Did I mention no $$ when running empty? HeyHeyHey...Had to start somewhere. :)
     
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  11. Dec 10, 2012 #9
    RizenPhoenix

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    27.5cpm in 2004 pulling a reefer for a pair of Punjabi's out of Los Banos, Ca. They where very fond of saying, "Oh buddy, you are never out of hours as long as you have more pages for your log book."
     
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  12. Dec 11, 2012 #10
    lil fred

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    My first truck was a cabover freightliner with no power sterring. The clutch was soo stiff, it was crazy.

     
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