Why is anyone thinking home every weekend and it's a good a good thing?

Yes sir

 

You want to work from the end of chain season in the springtime and do not stop until the beginning of chain season in October.

Then you are going to gain 3 to 4 months of home time to rest, refit and eat.

If you conserve your money and are careful with it during the sunshine non holiday months, you should be somewhere between 10 to 20 thousand dollars in the bank when you pull the breaks for the year Ready to go in a few months all over again.

Give the tractor a good cleaning, hand it over to the company so they can make money on it while you sit home.

 

Depends where you live. Go LTL or Foodservice in a major hub and the like e haul can be 58-68cpm. Or start off at 20$andhr work your way up to 25+hr.

It's rare to land those without a year, but in some areas it does happen.

Then if you can get into a construction company and get put into RGN work, in my area even the garbage company can get you into RGN work, I've seen some offer like 30$ or so.

Then there's fuel hauling, also local.

But yeah, most OTR companies can't do it.

 

Good luck. Hopefully the low starting wage pays off for you over time.

 

I easily do 2800-3200 miles and am home every weekend.

But then again my company doesn't hire newbies.

 

I really wish people would stop with the old and tired burger flipper myth. According to glassdoor.Com a McDonalds store manager has a typical salary of 42,600. And they probably work similar hours. You are never going to be better off flipping burgers. STOP IT!

As for great paying local gigs, I'm sure there are lots of them. But the availability of them depends a lot on where you live. Many areas just don't have them. Just do your research, new drivers, before you get your hopes up.

 

Unions + private fleet + tanker. At least that's what it was in my case. I wasn't in a union company, but my company was bought by Univar. We were paid comparable, but less than their union shops.

24.50/hr, OT after 8/40. Home weekends/holidays. Mostly no touch, unloaded myself maybe 5 times a year. I was projecting out to 1600/wk, 83k for the year. I quit for a local union job.

No mysteries, no conspiracies.

 

Yeah it is actually a pay cut, but I'm getting experience and moving on, made more with my class b. Its enough to pay the bills. Free benefits too.

 

This is absolutely an utter pile of misinformation. You as a driver are or should be directly impacting your needs being met. Money, home time, equipment, it's all what you want.. not them, if your being horse whipped it's because your not marketing yourself, and belived anything else was not possible. Maybe your the one that's being lied to.

 

But do you get a free meal every shift with your company.?

Thought not.