How to make money in trucking....????

None that I know of, doing general freight. Specialized, maybe, or Teamster freighthaulers, if you add in their benefits.

 

.75 net taxable is a good O/O pay. 100 -120 k miles. Im going hear it now!

 

actually I do understand the math, I am actually saying that .35 per mile wouldn't be enough to get me to team drive, sorry should have been more clear on that one. I could drive 500 miles a day more consistently as a solo driver than getting 1000 a day as a team.

 

UPS parcel. But that's topped out so 15-20yrs in. Lol.

 

My brother in law works for ups out of fisherville va on dedicated runs, they can varie, and doesnt make near that with his benifit package 62500. Ups is not on the master freight agreement with the other teamsters but negociate there own with ups. AR Best is also trying to get out.

 

Really? 500 miles a day solo, or 1000 miles a day team, looks like the same pay to me. Even with a dollar Walmart calculator.

 

Having lived in Florida 4 years, it's fun when you are young but there are much better places to live. Trust me. You don't know until you try. Any successful person will train for a job and relocate to where you can be successful at that job. Then you build your life around your bread and butter. You live at the end of the world so to speak which narrows down your opportunities immensely. There's a lot of freight going in Florida but not much coming out.


But as a young driver or any driver as far as that goes you have to have a good work relationship with your dispatcher. Keep your nose clean, deliver on time, cherish having no freight damages, be easy going and don't show useless anger and be willing to go that extra mile. When your dispatcher gets to know you and he knows you are dependable and can count on you, you'll find things get a whole bunch better. It doesn't happen overnight and too many drivers get impatient quickly. Of course there are bad companies out there but there area bunch of good companies a driver can make bad. A dispatcher can make or break a driver. Finding a good one is about 50/50. Attitude means a lot in this business.

Living in Florida and running OTR, a reefer is your best bet as mainly temperature sensitive products come out of there. There's a small Walmart DC in Winter Haven I believe and a big one in Arcadia. Any company that frequents them ought to be a company you can hire on with.

I'd tough it out a year and research your LTL opportunities. Every state has terminals. That's where you will make your best money as a young driver and most likely be home everyday.

 

what the guy is saying its much easier to go 500 miles a day solo, than do 500 by yourself and another 500 by your team driver while you trying to get some rest

 

I slept pretty good behind experienced drivers, I did not personally know. I was not difficult, at all. 5 to 6 thousand miles a week and home every week.

 

Theoretically you are correct. However, from the experience of my brother, who drove solo until I came aboard a couple months ago, it is impossible to double the miles as a team. That is the crux of the team driving issue. We average about 170% more miles than a solo driver could book. This is why there is a net decrease in income per driver, especially for the owner/operator that pays miles to the codriver and needs to cover truck expenses. We need to split up in order to maximize our income