Typical Salary?

Also, My main goal is to get experience so I can make good money in the future. Sometimes you have to sacrafice to get where you want to be. The first year is tough but I have faith.

 

yeah call it reefer, Wait 2x longer and duel use for the same pay! CRAP YEA !!!!!
hahahaha

 

I think you misunderstood .. i only have OTR exp, but I just think its silly that local drivers get zero respect for OTR positions. I get what you're saying about a Florida local driver ,, lol , lets just say its easy to see why the pay is so low there . But I think anyone who drives local in Chicago or northeast, or even smaller areas like Pittsburgh/western PA, Cincinnati,etc has everything it takes to drive OTR.

 

You want a company that is going to pay you the same for loaded miles and empty miles. Too many companies will pay you decently only when your loaded and give you some small token cents per mile rate when your empty. You want to try to find a company that will pay you a percentage of load pay. TMC Transportation out of Des Moines Iowa is a company that will actually take in a newly licensed driver and train them for flat bed work and most drivers say that you can get up to the same pay rates as more experienced drivers fairly fast. They pay you a guaranteed $650.00 a week when miles are down.

Your getting 72% of the load pay with none of the headaches of being a Owner operator or lease driver. This seems to be an industry standard in terms of percentage of load pay. I don't run for these guys but I hear good things about them.

 

It's a fcking joke. They know it.

You should see the look on my face when I got an email from one of their recruiters asking me if I was interested in coming back.
I thought to myself: Man, it's only been a year since I left and I now make more per mile than your million miler trainers do. Email me back when you cheap ######## raise it up to what we are worth.

 

If their drivers actually made 72% of each load driving company trucks that are black, chromed out and no truck payments even though they are slow, do you honestly think there would be any O/O out on the road contracted with companies in which most pay around the 77% margin average? I think you must have made a typo. Recent grads start at 26% and 27% for experienced drivers topping out at 32%. 72% would bankrupt the company in a single week. And no where does is state they are guaranteed $650/week even when rates/loads/miles are down not even with a trainer(if you have to go out with one) but it does state it is paid training. Your information is false and plainly incorrect. Its on their website, look it up!

As for being paid the same mileage pay for deadheading as being loaded. There are very few and its very rare to be known of companies that will do such. These days most companies won't pay you deadhead period. Its bad business. You can't expect to make money when the truck isn't. If you were a fleet owner paying all the bills, would you pay out free money to drivers for deadheading when your covering all the other expenses to keep that truck legal and on the road so you can keep that driver in a job? In this economy, no matter how big or small the company, that extra expense could potentially be the cause of its down fall.

 

My advice. Don't go into trucking.
If you are the main breadwinner, he can find a part time job.
If you work nights and have two special needs children, any money he would make won't pay for the daytime help you would have to hire to care for the children.

 

Salary usually refers to money paid for any day/time worked. I am salaried. I get paid a the same whether I haul one load or four loads.

Most drivers are paid by miles.

Mikeeee

 

Pmracing-- I believe you have hit on a key point, that I don't not think some of my fellow student understand. Trucking is for the most part, a form of piece labor. there is no "wage" or "salary".

I've heard certain delivery drivers may get a wage, and some specialized drivers may get a minimal guaranteed amt to keep them onboard. But the overwhelming majority of us will be paid by loaded mile.

Correct?

 

Roehl starts in the thirty cpm range, I think.