Miles per week?

Why is that hard to believe? Good jobs are out there for new drivers. Most are just too lazy to seek them out. They sign on with a mega with a big shiny truck.

 

I will chime in with this. I agree in part with both these statements. After 34 years of this, not running team, and doing an occasional training stint at my company I am on track to make 60K this year. But as an experienced driver, knowing every inch of this country, working efficiently with my company, and having the right freight, that's what I expect. As a new driver like yourself, you might want to figure on 35K your first year. You will have the learning curve, what comes easy to myself, will not be so easy for you. If you go into it the first year as a learning time, then your second year will put you into the 50K range.

 

Where do you live?

 

My first year consisted of 10 months of actual driving and I made a tad over 31k. This includes 6 weeks @ 8.75/hr while on mentor truck then 26-28-30c/mile for the remainder of the year. They gave me the miles so I ran my ### off, rolled hours constantly and was happy with a 34 as time off. Now that I'm at a higher milage rate I'm not getting the miles like the first year and been making around 35k. I thank Swift for the training and experience but its time I think to part ways.

 

Try calling into Abilene out of Richmond Va and speak with Sally in recruiting. We are not a training company or a bottom feeder. If you got your CDL and went to one of their approved schools, they will take you on and train you. As a trainer there, I will tell you this, it will be a 6 month training course that will cover every inch of this country, Canada if you have a passport and yes, even the big mean city of NY. You will not be paid some ridiculous weekly salary, you will be paid quite nicely for a trainee, more than what some drivers make at some of these mills. Your progress depends solely on what you learn and apply, and what I recommend.

 

Some of the comments are slightly ridiculous. First of all, if you only make 30-35K in your first year, you're doing something wrong. I see that you are in NC. Check out Cargo Transporters, they hire students, and are probably the best company to train with in the country ( my opinion). When I worked there I usually made 50,000 a year, was home EVERY weekend (usually for 48-60 hours) and was pretty common to be home 1-2 nights a week. I averaged some where around 2300-2600 miles a week.

With that being said, every trucking job isn't about the miles, the company I work for now, I had one week where I drove just a tad over 2,000 miles, and the next week I drove around 3,300, and grossed about $1400-1500 either week. For some companies, stop pay, hand unloading, and other incentives can really boost a pay check. At other companies (such as Cargo) the best way to make the most money is to get decent runs averaging 500 or so miles in each direction, and having drop/hook customers as a shipper and consignee certainly make that easier.

 

You could do a LOT better for 57,000 a year. Unless you just like staying on the road for 2-3 months. Plenty of home weekend jobs that make at least 50K or more. Im home every weekend at my current employer and I'm on track to make 65K or so my first calendar year.

 

$300-400 a week ?
is this a joke ?
i pay for training $100 a day , after 2 weeks i determine if you worth training
in 1.5 month i pay min $1500 a week for max 2200 miles in 4 days
.... its car hauling though