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When it cost you more to be gone then what you're bringing in then yeah you're better off staying at home with you're family. Either way you're broke but atleast you can be broke at home with you're kid sitting on you're knee. I think the point that is trying to be made is that it will be a long time before you see a check that averages out to anything close to $7hr. I don't think Rick's intentions is to contradict or combat you as much as he is just trying to make the case that the money is simply not there right now and that you enter with eyes wide open. I don't have near the vast experience you speak of concering military or otherwise (Thanks for your service) but I do know USA as I am coming up on my 1yr anniversiary this month and I can tell you 1yr ago the starting cpm was .28 and ending at .36 for the first year and that is the scale I'm on. They are starting out now at .26 ending at .34 that's a big difference from just a year ago, $200 a month for a 10,000 mile month which alot of drivers are not seeing right now. I have nothing much bad to say about USA any complaint I have could be made for any company. I am still running good miles thank goodness and I got my 09 prostar in sept. with 0mls on it all is working out well for me here and I made it through the first and second rounds of their big cuts I guess thanks to my on time del. and no inccidents/accidents and fuel mileage but there is no easy feeling of job security by no means. As far as USA paying for you're school they are not. You will be paying for that at $45 per week for a year and it is not to them they sell the loan upfront so the school and USA has already gotten their money back. Another thing you should realize is a prehire don't mean jack. I don't care who said what and at what stage of the game you're in until your butt hits the seat of a truck you have been assigned to you ARE NOT hired. My badge shows that I started 2-28-08 but all my ppwrk and raises go off of my real hire date 4-13-08 the day my hind end got in my first truck after school,orientation, and going out with the trainer. I started school in january through USA I got my first check close to the end of march. I also had to sign a contract with the school saying that if I was not hired by USA then I would be liable to the school for the money, my reply was I thought I was already hired before they sent me here, yeah right. So I mean like I say it can work out but it is almost never like you think. Do you have any idea of the people that come on here all fired up ready to go can't understand why we're being "jerks to them" so they think. They've done this or that and so they are prepared for this yada yada and then either they never come back on no more or they're back in all of the I shoudl've listened threads.LOl That's why I am to the belief that some of the ones you have went back and forth with are not trying to be jerks they are actuallly trying to help you. My advice would be let them. And take it as that, constructive criticism because most of the ones that don't make it really aint because they can't it is because they had this illusion built up in their mind of what this job is and when those expectations were not met they feel they have been done an injustice by whoever they signed on with and now they're out of here and most of them in debt for school. Anyways best of luck to you sir. and I truly hope all works out well for you.

 

I don't know anything about DS I did not go there. Sorry, I got lucky and was sent to a school that just so happened to be literally 5min from my house. My "trainer" was a joke and a piece of garbage. My first load was exciting because I knew I had finally been hired, my own truck# and under a load was a good feeling. It was a long road before I started seeing any decent money and alot of adjustments were made, some would argue I am still not seeing decent money but hey you have to start somewhere so I am very happy with my take home for now and look forward to my next 4cent raise, after that it only increases 1/2 a cent per year but I am going into the training program in march so that should help.

 

See this is the part that causes most to not make it. First of all let me say this, I am not saying you don't already understand this but others will read this that does not so let's see if we can help them. You start out at .26 cpm and run maybe........well lets give you a decent week for a company driver right now and say 2,000mls Okay that's .26 x 2,000 right? WRONG!!! If you take the perdiem at USA that will be .2375 X 2,000 which will = $475........ 2,000 mls in 7days is only 285mls a day that is alot of waiting and then add in the wait time at the shppr/rec, but say you just divide the 475 by your 70 that only comes out to $6.78hr. The 7hr you mentioned from the CMART is starting to sound better to me but wait we have to keep on subtracting. 475-45for school=430-25for escrow=405-lets say $48 for taxes=$357 That is with no 401k or ins taken out nothing tore up you eat cheap didn't take out your $160 advance and managed to run 2,000 mls. Now I'll give you this it does get better for some that make it through those times and if your around when things pickup and start getting raises and escrow took care of and school paid off it does get better. But the point is so many think that "I know I'm not gonna start off making the big bucks but I atleast should clear 4-600 dollars starting out" Aint gonna happen right now. I am not saying this job can't work out because if I can do it anyone can but atleast when you walk in walk in prepared to grab ankles and relax it won't hurt as much I've been told. What I'm saying is take the element of surprise out of it by building an informed opinion and atleast you know what your getting into before hand.

 

Really?........Because I posted on here a day ago and you have not responded. Did I say something you didn't want to hear on the thread you started. Sorry I was just trying to answer the question you asked me.

 

I've been researching all of this stuff, too. And can see that its not the right time to try to start out in trucking! I may go hungary, but I'm not gonna be tired, and hungary!!

 

Htbotrs good luck to you hope all goes well