How is my friend making a consistent $750-$1000 after taxes driving for swift being new?

smith41 · Apr 11, 2017

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Send a Directed Message to "meekb" and ask how to get on Miller Coors Dedicated out of Colorado. It's still technically OTR, but you see a lot of the same locations. Average loads are 800+ and you never sit. You either get a beer load, a dunnage load, or a load of empty cans/kegs. Average over 3000 miles a week easily. Even if they don't have a load on that account, you get priority on a load that gets you into the area of a beer related load. So it may be a 1400 mile load of toilet paper, going from Colorado to Elkton, Virginia... there you will get a beer load.

As for your friend, he gets mileage pay for the local loads, which pay handsomely. I've received .80cpm before for a short hop to help a planner and that was like 300 miles, followed by back to back to back 20 mile drop and hooks, paying a buck a mile.

Your friend also gets multiple stop pay, loaded miles and paid deadhead back to the terminal.

.41 is what Walmart dedicated is paying last I checked. .41 * 400. Every stop but the first and final are paid at 15 dollars per. So you're looking at another 45-60 dollars.

Over 200 dollars a day. Pretty easy to make 1000 if you run hard. I only make checks that small if I take like 4 days off or something.

Lastly, they always have a load. Spam macro 30 until you get a load or they tell you to stop. Message planners. Early and often. Try to always be empty on Thursday night/Friday morning and always approve your logs immediately before sending your empty call, and immediately whenever you wake up. They can't plan you if they don't know your hours.
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Thank you. I will send a direct message to meekb right now.

Thanks again!

Moosetek13 · Apr 11, 2017

smith41 said: ↑

Excuse me? I like driving otr. I just don't like the inconsistency of the pay. a steep decline in my paycheck the very next week is ridiculous. I don't want to be out there risking my ### driving in snow and bad weather in the middle of nowhere for a lousy $250 check.

If the pay was consistent, I'd have no problem. However when I am continuously getting $250 checks week after week because there is nothing available, I want out of otr.

Surely you can understand my frustration.
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I guess that could be a drawback of a company that is hiring a hundred or more new drivers every week.
Unless they can increase the sales, every driver will see fewer miles.

But keep in mind that even dedicated accounts have busy and slow times. True, it won't affect you as much because they sucker in OTR drivers during the busy times.

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