Extra income

Well you could sell fuel off the company fuel card to owner op's. Or sell the osd from your last load. Or even sell the companies equipment like I use to hear flat bed drivers doing all the time. Heck you could even sell your cb or antennas that you've snatched off someone else's truck.

More serious is to have a job that has you working 58-65 hrs that actuality pays. And gets you home every week. Screw this crap about taking a 34 on the road!!!!!! And sitting around the J twitching your thumbs because you don't have a load.

 

I will buy your company fuel. 100%! I'll give you a dollar per gallon. That's 250 big ones right now, plus the 20 gallons for the diesel cans I started carrying the time I ran out of diesel 300 feet from the pump waiting in line lol

 

There isnt much. What you should be doing is building a savings totally. Even if it is a hundred dollars to start. Remember trucking is feast and famine. The good ones will have saved a few thousand dollars as a core beginning so that they can constantly add to it in good pay weeks. So that when there are no miles in bad weeks as you found out. That is not a problem.

Extra income for us meant being promoted to trainer. That means a salary way beyond the average net 1000 per week, it will be closer to 2000 per week no matter what the truck did. And maybe a bit more in miles if you had a student strong enough to form a team (Which you really should not do, that student will be paid very little and there you are profiting off him or her...)

Finally becoming a team was the one thing that allowed a door to be opened to crossing the USA twice in 6 days or less round trip and with that kind of mileage and freight not given to single drivers (Because they cannot do it...) you will have payroll hand over fist. It is very rare for a husband wife team to sit any time during a week. Very rare indeed. Because it will be a waste of two drivers and a very good truck to have them sit. Not as wasteful for a single to sit. It's freighting that is not that critical given to singles.

 

I get so pissed off when I call the planners for a load and they say sorry that's a team load. No it's not, it's a me load. When I was teaming we would get those awesome ### Amazon loads that had 34 hours to go from Dallas to LA with a 34 hour return to Dallas to the Amazon there.

They know #### well I can run that load solo, but they are stuck on this "planning at 55mph" mentality. It's like a 1400 mile trip with a 0100 gate time and absolutely nothing to slow you down if you bypass Phoenix on 8. Maybe a bit of traffic in Tuscon. 5-8000lb loads. Was getting like 9mpg pedal to the floor. Even better on the way out if you turn off the engine brake.

Instead nowadays they are giving me a 1600 mile load out of Waco Friday to Madison WI for one stop today and now to Fargo for another stop tomorrow. My ### is parked here with 4 hours left on the clock and can't do #### until tomorrow when I drive 4 miles to deliver. No big deal, I'll have 10:55 minutes of drive time left. I need a load that picks up early tomorrow and gets me as far as I can get by midnight on Wednesday so I can make a little money this week.

No problem fam, we got you... got a load that picks up 24 hours after you deliver tomorrow morning and delivers in North Carolina on the 28th...

Uh... so for those counting, that's 1540 loaded miles this week, and a 100 mile deadhead to grab an empty and then a 33 mile deadhead to drop said empty and grab this load I'm delivering... for the week.

Truck payment, insurance, fuel, prepass, taxes, more insurance, new def cap, also got hit with fuel tax this week... big fat negative settlement. Fortunately the truck payment isn't a lease payment. Unfortunately, that means Swift can't forgive the lease payment. The bank
Don't give a #### how you did this week. Where's our money?

Fortunately I saved thousands from my first 7 months of driving and I can feed the fam this week. But just barely.

 

I understand completely.

ive handled Yakima to Boston Market loads that payed about 3000 miles in 5 days many times, that load of Onions will get there just as well with a solo or team.

You would have had a very good settlement with a load like that.

I suspect a deeper conflict between yourself and the dispatcher who failed to give you that really long haul. Something must have happened in the past to cause that dispatcher to sort of conspire or fail to provide you a basis for a good prosperity with his company long term.

 

There it is.

 

They seem to think 550 miles is about all one can reasonably expect to run on a consistent basis every day. And I'm like yea, 45,000 in the mountains.

Ideally, I'm running 550 in 8-9 hours. With a pretrip and a 30, its closer to 9. I usually load up on caffeine and beverages in the morning, kick the tires and roll. Stop after 4 hours to take a piss and run out the remainder of my clock without stopping unless I have to. Anything I need to do can be done in 30 minutes.

They just don't understand. If I was grabbing loads off a loadboard at 2.50-3.00 per mile, I'd be really #### content with a 1200 mile load that delivers in 3 days. I have sat many days now lately because it was cheaper to idle and wait for a good load than it was to take a 500 miles load that is just in time with a service failure and a fine for early delivery, delivers in 4 days and the only place to repower it is 60 miles from the final, so they won't let you repower it once you ran all the miles off.

A company driver gets layover pay for taking that load with 4 days on it. That's 500 loaded miles and then 300 dollars for sitting on your ###. The planners get pissed because I counter those loads with a delivery time that is 9 hours later and the reason is "what am I supposed to do with the other 3.5 days?"

"It's all we have here"

"Then tell me where to deadhead myself to that there is good freight"

 

I personally do table dances for tips in the flying j tv room for the drivers

 

That's dope

 

Ha..lol..to funny...I hope your in shape driver or um covering up...lmbo