New Driver Needs More Money

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  1. Jun 9, 2014 #1
    trucker82

    trucker82 Bobtail Member

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    So have 8 months experience under my belt.

    Work for a very nice company but the pay is not very nice.

    Putting in 70 hours a week and making about minimum wage. 40 cents a mile, strap/chain, tarp, border crossing payments. 400-500 miles a day. Still with all that barely cracking 10$ an hour after taxes. Right now doing long haul, some very long haul. Some very heavy freight, mostly 40-45K pounds a run.

    What am I missing. Sure 8 months is not much experience but I need to start making some real money.

    Any suggestions, I would love to hear them all. Right now working for company based in Kitchener. Everyone there is great, not a mega-carrier, only about 50 truckers working for them.
     
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  3. Jun 9, 2014 #2
    Shaggy

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    Find yourself a local outfit that pays hourly. Millions of others do what you do and never processed the 70 hours/ un paid baby sitting equipment during sleep and ETC.
    Kick in the groin for sure to realize paid crap. move on to a hourly gig, paid for everything :biggrin_25520:
     
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  4. Jun 9, 2014 #3
    KC Guardrail

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    You must be using different math then I'm using. Say you run 3000 miles at .40 a mile. That's $1200 gross. Divide that by 70 hours and you get about $17 an hour.
     
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  5. Jun 9, 2014 #4
    Prairie Boy

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    Well there's Math and there's "Trucker Math".
     
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  7. Jun 9, 2014 #5
    just_the

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    Nah the OP is correct if you take time and a half into consideration, and also he said AFTER taxes. So, say he's running 3000X.4=1200, minus taxes about 890 (depending on allowances). 70 hours w/ time and a half = 85 hours straight pay. So 890/85 = $10.47 per hour...
     
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  8. Jun 9, 2014 #6
    orcen

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    45k is heavy? :p
     
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  9. Jun 9, 2014 #7
    gokiddogo

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    Hey it is Ontario we aren't as smart as you are out there on the west side - or anyone else that has evacuated this province for that matter ....
     
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  10. Jun 9, 2014 #8
    orcen

    orcen Heavy Load Member

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    haha, I just moved to Vancouver from North Bay a year ago.

    45,000 in the mountains here is a light load :p
     
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  11. Jun 9, 2014 #9
    Macneil

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    I would start throwing resumes out for sure for a local gig, or even just something with better pay on the big road..

    I was on the highway pulling a 4 axle flat bed doing LOTS of LTL stuff and never left Ontario which was nice but like you, my hourly pay was POOP. I left that and got another local gig..paid the same rate wether Im pulling heavy(5 axle) or hauling air around or sitting and waiting for a load..
     
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  12. Jun 9, 2014 #10
    Prairie Boy

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    Come West young man and STAY in the West. :)
     
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