End my 2 year trucking career?!

Post where you live and let's see if we can find you a better employer. .40 is too lousy even for a beginner.

 

Only 2 years into it? I say get out while you still can.

 

im so glad i dont run 3000 miles a week anymore. after 2300 miles im wore out

 

Advances must stop.

You run what they give you. If it means cabbage in a winter storm so be it.

You set aside a percentage of expected pay per loads delivered. That's your savings. You don't touch it no matter what. Eventually you will be well ahead so it wont matter if you had a bad month or say a 9-11 event that destroyed our payroll for a number of weeks.

I have said for years that anything in the .30's is insufficient pay for a trucker. In the 80's it would be awesome pay, but inflation and cost of living etc ate all that way you need to get close to or past .50

One solution is to stop trucking a few months and take on a second job at a fast food somewhere until you have a couple thousand saved up. Then get back into it with that as a foundation of savings you add to. Never take advances. Ever. Sometimes companies fire people for borrowing money too much. They are a trucking company not a bank.

 

How about working for a company that has a guaranteed minimum pay every week. You can make more if you run the miles but they take all the risk if it's a slow week.

 

you should run any road and any load. i see right now you want texas big miles. but sorry driver, thats not how it is. i would put 100grand on the problem is you. probably best for you to get out of trucking all together. save your self the trouble and headache. hey you gave it a shot.

 

Move to thw mid west.and do regional.. Pay and driving is much better. No mountains. No east coast traffic. Plenty of parking...