My Miles YTD good, bad, or just average???

Lol. Right about 50k here. Past 2 months I do less than 100 a day. Short haul from a local port to feed mills. Good winter work

 

126k is not too bad for your first year. I think it's best to try & average about 10k miles every month, which equates to 120k for a year. So you've done pretty good in 2014. Keep up the good work!

 

I'm at around 140k for the year, and changed carriers twice, I think I'll settle if they are able to get me home on time. In total I probably took a month or two off.

 

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I only logged around 13,000 miles this year. My boss jokes around all the time with me, saying he's going to let someone else slip seat into my truck to put some miles on it.... Lol

 

Wage to mileage comparisons will drive you crazy. If you're not paid by the hour, don't worry about your hourly wage. It creates too much stress that doesn't need to be there.

 

I only did about 46,000 this year, but I've been sitting at home on worker's comp since May 18. Chomping at the bit to get back to work, but still have physio and treatments to do on my knees. Not counting this year, I averaged 110,000 or so since '06.

 

My nightly run (route) averages comes out to just under 17,000 miles per year (about 330 miles round trip), and I am only counting 50 weeks, due to vacation, holidays and sick days, and most nights, weather permitting and other road factors, I can be done in as little as 8 hours, some nights, 9 hours. My yearly gross however is very close to running OTR, or for a union local company. Some day when you decide to get off the road and into a more localized job, you too will work less, and run less, but make more money.

 

Teamsters companies will hire and train student drivers with under a year experience, as long as you went to an accredited driving school and have your endorsements.

What he said isn't far from the truth. When I was OTR, I did heavy haul at 30% load pay, which averaged out to around $1,600 a week gross. I left OTR to work for the post office. I started at $19/hr for a local city run. Now I'm at $25/hr. Other premiums bring me up to making a weekly gross of $1,500 a week, and I only have to 'work' 40 hours a week to get that. I could easily double that number working overtime.