Best lease truck company? 1000 take home

Doing the math on your buddy:
Using his top scale 150 per hr × 14 hrs =$2100 per day × 7 days is 14,700 per week and that would have to be gross.
Taxes on that amount per week would be significant!
Posting 15k per week net is a bit of an over statement.

 

Yes sir, fuel was less than 1.00 a gallon, maintenance costs were less, even truck payments were less. Now they expect OOs to continue in business at basically the same rates of 33 years ago and still profit even though expenses have doubled. Actually more than doubled.

 

I called him and asked him what the heck?....he said the truck runs 2 12 hour shifts now...he runs days, some dood runs nights..
125 an hour, 5 days, 15k....I dont think he was lying that much....he does run 7 days as there is no DOT in ND , and an oilfield exemption...
Again, he was just a dood with a 900 trailer to sleep in, and driving a 7k truck...not scientific data here..
Point being, Ive searched for the max dollar, and the oilfield is where i found it...Almost profitable enough to rent a truck...Penske told me 1500 a week, need buisness license tho..lol

 

Yep. I don't profit as much as i did then, but my profit is still enough. Basically while I'll probably never see another 25k net month on a regular basis and i certainly miss those, i should have known they wouldn't last and not blown that money. That's on me.

 

This is what I'm doing since my Dad took ill, and now I need to be home everyday.





Please refer to me as Day Cab Dave.

Pays $900 to $1200 / week. $900 if I work 5 days. So that's home every night, 5 day work week, no tax burden, full benefits. Although I am a bit concerned about them giving a lock of my hair to the CIA so they could catalog my DNA. If I could even be 2 nights at a whack I could go back to doing what I posted on page one.
Believe me driver, $1000 week is very low. But I've done it, lots of people have, but I also knew nothing.
Put your time in as a company driver, save your money, buy your truck from a source independent from who you are going to work for. There is only one dude I've run across that is an exception to that, but there are probably a few more, and if you want to drive one of his company trucks, you'll make over $1K / week, with benefits/ vacation/ no tax burden.

 

You are making 900-1200 net driving for Schneider per week?
To make that in 5 days and have taxes and benefits taken out would have you running near 500 miles a day at 45cpm. Never heard of a Schneider gig in that stratosphere...
Also having a hard time with the idea of making 1000$ NET per week for a company driver at a common carrier.
In 2 years of running for Schneider the number of times I had a NET at-or-over 1000$ without a bonus tossed in could be counted on less than 10 fingers and I never took time off or sat in the tv lounge.

 

Where in his post do you see NET?

 

If you find a company that pays a grand a week for lease driver I would suggest that you go elsewhere.Sounds like you have exp so I would stay away from the starter companies.You can find a company that'll pay a thousand plus a week as a company driver.

 

The OP is "take home"...the entire thread is about net income. I just expected his post to stick to the theme of the thread.

Okay, after reading the post above this one I can see the idea of NET income has been lost and now we have a blending of GROSS and NET numbers with nothing to specifically identify if someone is talking NET or GROSS.

I was mostly remarking that it is unlikely that a newish company driver of a common carrier would consistently NET $1000 per week; to do so (IMHO) would require paper logs and zero home life.

 

I get paid by the load. All kinds of accessorial pay as well. Company driver. They have some local gig's that pay lump sum for the day as well. Whole world out there driver. Think there's 6 drivers on the one I'm on. All day cabs. One guy been there for going on 10 years. They have one IC come to help, he has a regular sleeper truck.
The one dude does a whole better than that. They have one run that pays $80. Takes just under 2 hours. Lots of $65s, $45s, add just a ton of nickel & dime add ons.
I keep telling people move to Phoenix. No, no, no, Phoenix only cheap freight. This January when everyone CRYING no freight, I got Landstar loads out of here that payed me $1.60.
Then got Washington and got $1.90.
Cold? yes
Snowing? Like 19 mofo's.
Take home $2K roughly ( before taxes ) in the dead of winter? Yes

There's a whole world out there driver.

The two best loads I got, one came from JBHunt, one from Swift. Both were like 620 miles or so. Made $1,000 in one shift after fuel. That was in December, when there's no freight.
And allow me expand on that. The money grubbing wh......., I mean my dispatcher had me a reload going to Washington, from where I was that would have paid me $1.60 for 2K miles, but the deadhead was almost 200 miles, and I just couldn't make it to the pick up. Not cause of fatigue, just too far, and not enough time.