End my 2 year trucking career?!

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Canwil3565, Mar 19, 2019.

  1. Freddy57

    Freddy57 Road Train Member

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

    olddog_newtricks Medium Load Member

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    Only 2 years into it? I say get out while you still can.
     
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  4. truckdriver31

    truckdriver31 Road Train Member

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    im so glad i dont run 3000 miles a week anymore. after 2300 miles im wore out
     
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  5. Canwil3565

    Canwil3565 Light Load Member

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    Where do you live? Where do I have to go? I moved from va to pa and I hate it. I was told by Chinatown that van kampen or frock bros would hire in my area, neither one of them would. I'm just lost. I will move anywhere that will allow me to make decent money, not run me in areas that I am terrified of and 3000 + a week
     
  6. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    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.
     
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  7. Brandt

    Brandt Road Train Member

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    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.
     
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  8. Canwil3565

    Canwil3565 Light Load Member

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    No, no, I think you are somehow mistaken. Taking those mountains only got me the same pay I make not running them so, yeah, no, I am not gonna run them if the money is the same if I don't. Prime screwed me, badly. I didnt say I wouldn't I'm just saying if the money is the same then......why?! I think I am just inexperienced and dont really know any better and I have been getting bad advice which is......why I am posting........thanks
     
  9. Canwil3565

    Canwil3565 Light Load Member

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    That is a great suggestion! I have looked into shipex but I heard they will fire u for the smallest thing. I'm always on time but I am human...ihuman...i make mistakes. Do u know anything about them other than the posts about u having to be a subhuman driver? Or in? I heard they have a minimum pay but they will constantly wake u up during ur 10 hrs to relay?! What do u know about any of them? Anything? Thanks
     
  10. truckdriver31

    truckdriver31 Road Train Member

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    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.
     
  11. Snakeschasingcars

    Snakeschasingcars Heavy Load Member

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