Is My Math Correct or Am I Missing Something???

... for me looking into all of this, and coming from one crap job to another (retail and desk jobs). I see it as an office by myself, with one person to control where I go (dispatcher), and an open dress code for work. Only stress in my opinion is yelling at traffic. From what I have found in my researching, once you are around a year, the CPM jumps, or there are many lucrative options owning a truck.

 

Yep. I allow myself casual Fridays and drive naked.

 

lol. With a tie if you have to conduct a meeting.

 

Talk my buddy about the lucrative side of owning a truck. He just blew the motor in his truck and has to have it rebuilt now. He's hating life right now.

 

WTF- Somebody looking to truck on Fantasy Island?

Mega-Crap has another victim ready for the picking.

 

decided to delete my post.

 

Hooves.... a helpful suggestion: you should consider laying off the hallucinogens before going to see the doc for your med card.

 

First off none of the stuff you mentioned reduces your drive time. I can do a Pretrip, post trip, 30 minute break, fuel, and still drive 11 hours a day. I'm on Elogs too. I get paid $20 a hour for driving and $12 for line 4.

 

While your mileage figures will vary based on the company you work for and how they actually run their training program (team operation or true training) the pay simply put, sucks for trainees, but you are (hopefully) gaining a valuable skill. Keep your chin up, with experience it gets much better. Keep your record clean, keep your job history solid and you can pretty much do what you want where you want for who you want.

On average, I drive about 1000 miles, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less per week and make $1185 gross on average, if I get called out on a spill it goes up considerably as spills pay double time, I made $406 including call in pay, for my first 6 hour spill. I work days and I'm home everyday. I work on average 50 hours a week and I'm hourly. I work in the industrial services field. We haul waste oil, haz mat waste, etc. from factories and such that goes to disposal sites. Most days the work is not at all hard, (stretch one piece of 2" hose and babysit the truck while it's pumping) some days I'll have to stretch 100'-200' of 2" or 4" hose but those days they have a helper go with us. We also run roll off boxes, a few vans for drums and lugger trucks. The roll offs and luggers are the easiest of our jobs, with the only real downside is having to line the boxes, especially the luggers, it can be a real pain if it's windy.

I ran local LTL line haul for a dozen years and loved the money 80K/year but absolutely hated the job. I hated the boredom of doing exactly the same thing day after day, sleeping during the day time, staying awake all night, having to run, no matter what in the worst winter weather (daycabs), punk kid supervisors trying to tell us crusty old vets how to do our jobs when they've never seen the inside of a truck and the company was in general a nightmare to work for. Some folks can be lured by that money and can deal with the boredom and BS and I was stuck because of the money too, but money isn't everything and a man can only take so much BS.

 

Yes I am aware. Your meal and breaks falls off of the 14 hour rule, not the 11 driving. I appreciate your positive response mattbnr. I don't see how it is fantasy land driving for some of the other posts. No, I don't have anywhere the actual driving experience as most, nor the details of anyone's pay scale, or regions they usually drive.

Though, Google, and you will find the average interstate speed limits. Add and subtract, and you'll find 500 miles per drive at 62 mph, will not equal how many miles during 10 hours. Hint, the reason 500 may be a worst case. If your route is only from Bronx to Queens, I can see how 500 is a stretch. I can also see, if I state you SHOULD do 620-650 per drive, I would need to stay off whatever you think I may be on.

10x10 [ten driving, ten resting] will equal 70 total driving hours a week, which is the maximum hours per week you are allowed, and staying with in all other rules.
11x10 [eleven driving, ten resting] will maximize your per drive rule, but you are shortening your weekly by driving only 66 hours [6 days] - though hours reset works better with this method since the difference collects at the end of your driving week [gained hours].

Like these, no numbers are exact. Everyone knows there are exceptions. You arrive with your load Saturday night and the shipper isn't opened until Monday. You have the one miracle good dispatcher that lines you up load after load, and the 1st load takes extra hours where you can't have that ideal 2nd load. 1 load cancels. Traffic. Breakdowns. The list can go on forever on exceptions.

Though, as passive of a person I am with a lot of things, I do think these are logical averages.

So, 62 miles per hour times 10 hours is not more than 500 miles? .... times 7 days [70 total hours] is not more than 3500 miles?

I think that is a fair assessment for this original poster's question in terms of math. This is a company driving pay sheet. They are gonna go up to the governed speed, which from what I have been reading is either 62 mph, or 65 mph, depending on the company. They will, because it is not their gas expense.

I also know this would be considered 'driving hard'. Risk factors aren't always money and math. It is your life, and though exciting to drive for money, can stress and wear you out. Driving this example week after week, will have you sleep for the 3 days straight you are resetting your clock, if it doesn't make you crazy, lol.

Out in the clouds ... I have to argue. Severely off ... I am intrigued to learn more. I am just in the industry, so I only have my finance experience to lean on, and it is theoretical until I have put in my time like they are considering. I think they should take a chance with it. Regardless how the miles and driving end up, those weekly dollar amounts seem to be consistent with mostly all recent grad job ads.

Hope this didn't derail anyone's thinking the wrong way. I can get passionate with my writing and views sometimes. If there is logical reasoning where I am off, please feel free on letting me know some of those views in detail.