OTR Pay

$70,000 at 0.31 would be pretty much impossible.
70,000/.31 = 225,806 miles per year.
Even if you work 52 weeks a year that's 4342 average miles per week.
This is about double what you will really average.

 

700 miles a day?
Try again.

 

Hours of service also enters the equation. If we use the new rules that are about to be forced upon us, you will be allowed to drive a maximum of 70 hours on duty per 168 hours. Also gotta take into account for home time. In the beginning it might be kinda interesting to stay in the truck stop .. but it will get old fast.

 

Only in your dreams. First year 70k that is funny.

 

I should add that when I was a few years younger than I am now (only 25 now), and was lucky enough to have an employer that trusted me to drive an ungoverned truck, and also that my books would be good enough to pass the scale house, I probably could and did have 4500 mile (or more) weeks. Here was my problem though, when I took time off, I slept the entire time. I realize now there were many times I should not have driven for so many hours on end. Now I am much more relaxed and don't work myself like that anymore. It just wasn't sustainable for me. Luckily enough we never had an audit (to my knowledge) and I never had to face the music.

edited to add this:
In the last year of running this way I grossed about 65,000. I was paid .42 + $15 per pick and drop. Let's say I did 5,000 worth of picks and drops so 60,000 at 0.42 = 142,857 miles. That was running me ragged too. Now I have worked myself into a better gig, but it didn't come without putting in my time and learning as much as I could every day.

 

Yes...also you might get a short run or two with some extra time on it.

 

Well you wont get 2 or 3k every week, some weeks you might only get 1500 with big company's, plus your home time. So after say 3-5wks with a trainer, and being new there not going to push you hard until they know you can make your delivery's on time and so on, I would say realistically maybe 1000,000 would be a good number to expect for your first yr. Not to mention 31cpm is a high number for most van company's that will train you.