First year earnings

Wow what kind of company do you work for?

I made well over 30k last year, which was my first year by the way

 

I'm just over 30k for 8 months. If you are making >25k in your first year you didn't do your research on companies. He's right about safety being paramount, but I do know people who had preventables and still have jobs.

I'm guessing rolly chose the wrong starter company and got burned.

 

Made ~45K my first year, would have easily been over 50 if I stayed teamed... And I just got out of the ND oil patch where some outfits will hire guys with no experience and pay over $100K/year (if you want to run 20,000lbs over gross & work 18hrs/day everyday)

 

my first full yr i made somewhere around 33k gross, im doing around 52k per yr currently...

 

BS! if you go to a otr mega carrier than that's probably true...i grossed over 50k my first year....have pay stubs to prove it. I work in food but it's stupid easy money. I actually found out out my company thru the truckers report, didn't see an ad on craigstlist, just applied and called the manager the next day, rest is history

 

I got a preventable with a brand new truck my first week. They told me people have done worse things and still work here. There are rookies here who have totaled brand new trucks with less than 10k miles on them and they still work here

 

i had to look back to see if op was asking about a specific company after reading rollys post. to be fair to him, there ARE companies out there that will not care about you at all. i dont want to mention any names (cough..crst..ahem..england..cough) but before making a decision id be reading all i could about the companies i was consideing. one bad post should mean NOTHING to you...all companies have people that think they are the worst company and the best company out there. but the 2 i didnt mention? 50 bad reviews to every good review is a conservative estimate of what ive seen. i have no experience with either of them, but the sheer weight of negative reviews should give you a LOT of pause.
but rolly is saying its not possible to make even 33k your first year, no matter which mega carrier you go to? absolutely WRONG. i made 38k in 12 months, and i took most all of my hometime (7 days out one day off), so thats about 47 weeks worth of work give or take. i did not (and would never) team (share a tiny metal box with another grown man? no thank you). i did not do flatbed or osow or tanker...all dry van.

to op...one person mentioned food distributors. the company near me hires student drivers, pays an average salary of around 62k, and drivers are home 3 days outta 7. its an excellent way to make GOOD money and have almost a normal home life. but its physical as heck. unload your own truck, always goes out overweight, so youre unloading 50k ish worth of product at the umpteen thousand stops you make. i couldnt do it. but it is worth considering if youre physically up to it.