"Granted, I leave the house at 4am, drive 50 miles to where I work, hop in my Pete, drive it another 40-60 miles to the rock crusher, and then start making runs to road construction all day until around 4-5pm, drive it back to the yard, and then have to drive the 50 miles home again hahahahaha, that's a crap load of driving but my average day makes me 250 bucks, some more, some less but the majority is 250, it's worth it to me to commute that far and basically have 0 life monday through friday to not have to put up with some moronic dispatcher who has never seen a steering wheel tell me why I am not making any money living in a 72" box waiting on loads for 2-3 days at a time."
so basically, slodsoms, you leave home at 4AM and get back home about 7PM??? my hat's off to you, good sir! you have a LOT more energy than I!! so you basically get up, go to work. come home, go to bed. and repeat. so just like OTR, you still have NO life? that's one of the reasons I've never really pursued local driving - work 5 times as hard as OTR for the same money. (I know you said $250 a day - I just ain't never seen those kind of wages in local trucking.) so then, you're willing to give up your life to make a certain amount of money? sad.
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$8.00/hour? seriously?
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I was talking about the namecalling. Not too worried about your truth as I've been in the trucking biz a couple weeks, or so. Just trying to keep you from getting a vacation, but, suit yerself.
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Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it's not there. Last week I worked 6 days, slept in my own bed every night, and never heard a qualcomm go off.
Monday $250
Tuesday $300
Wednesday $300
Thursday $300
Friday $175
Saturday $250
You do the math, I didn't make that kinda money OTR, I made that kinda money when I was in the Marine Corps AND worked a second job at night building motors for dragsters which netted me 6am to midnight 5 days a week and 11am to 4pm on Saturdays.
I am a lot of things but afraid to work ain't one of them. It's rock hauling man, when the work is there, there is tons of it and they pay accordingly because when it dies, it's dead for a while and you have to wait it out. This is a one man owned company, 3 trucks, 3 employees, and we are all paid 25% of the load. If it's good pay for him, it's good for us, if it's crappy pay for him, it's crappy for us as well. Right now we are on an 80 mile stretch of state funded shoulder rebuild that will carry us for 12 weeks or so with hours/pay like this. When it is done, if we don't get another contract like that it's back to oil field pad construction, shorter hours by far but also more like 800-1000 per week.
I will take the long hours for plenty of money when it's there, it's called drive, some of us want to ensure our kids get a better life than we did and we will bust our ##### to do it. If that means working a lot of hours 5 days a week then so be it. I can handle it
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