Am I being realistic?

That is roughly 160,000 miles in 12 months, 13,000 miles a month, or 650 miles a day five days a week. No, you are not going to make fifty thousand dollars your first year.

Your long term goal should be to drive the fewest miles for the most amount of dollars.

Heck, I have had my truck for 2 1/2 years and just turned 135,000 miles.

Mike

 

you may have your expectations a little high. i always figured 1 penny a mile as $1,000 to $1,200 a year (a little more if you're one of those energetic, hard runners)

if you average 10,000 miles a month, you're base gross pay will be 36K. that doesn't include other pay (like drop pay, loading pay, etc..) you may average more miles too......

good luck with stevens and be safe out there.

 

And let me add this... Realistically I think you are looking at $25 to maybe $30 thousand your first year. And the way this economy is, I would not expect much more than that in the foreseeable future.

That is about what I made my first year near twenty years ago. And not much has changed.

Mike

 

You'd be driving asleep to do enough miles to get $1k per week at .30 cpm. The $36k per year figure is much more reasonable, and yes, freight has slowed way beyond what it has in past years. Even if you were making that much, that would be before taxes and deductions.

BTW, .30 cpm is a mighty skinny rate.

 

Recruiters are many times unrealistic in their statements to potential drivers. Believe half of what you see & none of what you hear!

 

should be making more than .30 after a year. If you do your year there, go someplace else and get at least .34 or better

 

3000 miles a week is just not realistic right now on a steady basis. I think right now most company drivers will be lucky to see 2000 miles a week. The freight is just not there unless say you get on a dedicated run at those miles.

And 3000 miles a week is allot of miles unless you are one of those guys that lives to drive. I don't even like going around the corner to the party store.

Mike