Dump Truck Experience - Does it count?

Only $30/hr driving for someone else?

 

I dont understand taking a pay cut to drive otr. I did have my own truck, but I made awesome money driving otr. I had to take a pay cut to stay local, but my wife and I now have two babies and I need to be home just as much as I need the money.

 

Please define awesome money doing OTR take home pay each week. Hours worked / take home $.
5 years in. I hope you bring in at least $1200 net a week. 60/40 hours and 20 hrs of OT is very possible to make..

 

net actually between 1800 and 2000 a week, after expense. Got a really good deal on a truck, but fuel is by far your largest expense, about 70 gallons a day on average and worked about 5 and a half days a week

 

good for you. no sarcasm.


In the end, make same as a door slammer for a local ABC outfit.

trucking is either a JOB or a Lifestyle. hard to define anything. we are all different

 

I dont know, but I think an annual take home between 90 to 100k a year is pretty good no matter what type of small business you are operating, I have a lot of friends with a degree, and also friends that have businesses with 15 to 20 employees that dont make that much, and I have a relatively small investment

 

I have never heard of a company that does not consider local T/T work as experience. Many will advertise they want 6 mos or 1 year OTR because they want drivers that aree acclimated to the lifestyle. I imagine some local drivers would leave after a short time, because of the away time and the lifesyle, but I know several local drivers including myself, that have gone OTR with no problem.

Sometimes a company will require a local driver to spend weeks with a trainer, where a recent OTR may just need indoc or a trip or two under their belt. Sometimes just a conversation that ensures the employer that the driver understands and is willing to live with the lifestyle of OTR, but T/T expeience is counted whether local or OTR in any company I have spoken to. And because I am relocating I have unfortunately had to speak with quite a few lately.