12-25 cpm wasn't enough for me

There are some that pay that low to start. From my research, training pay for a new CDL holder at some companies ranges from 14 to17 cpm (some pay $450/wk), but that is only for 4-6 weeks. Afterward, pay increases to 29-35 cpm (varies by company).

I have also been told the pay during the training period is for all miles the truck rolls, not just the miles the trainee drives.

These numbers are from Halvor Lines, Ozark, and H. O.Wolding -- not in any particular order.

 

They need a tracking report for companies like this. Just like a DAC.

 

to the op. did you a kiss with the pork'n they gave you? it's sound like covenants pay. I had a nephew that work for them. and then came to work for me as a driver. I sit him down and woke him up out of the big trucking company lies. he worked for me clear up until the crash of 2008. then got a job at ups. making $K a year running from Orlando to Miami. so not all big trucking companies are bad. the bad ones stand out more. and do more damage to the industry.and make good drivers bad. some thing i will share. the really good companies. never have ads for help. you always see there trucks on the road. and you never hear anything bad about them.

so when seeking a new trucking job. don't send in the INTERNET applications. that go out to every trucking company. instead, look around the parking lot. start reaching the trucking companies that have trucks in the parking lot. talk to alot of there drivers. see if they will show you their pay summary and get a solid idea of if that company is going to be good for you. or if you should keep looking. and when you go to oreintation. remember. that is a week long interview. interview them just as much as they interview you. and if you see or hear something that's not right. you can always leave and go find another one. it's better to put oreintation only. then it is to say work worked there for a few weeks. the company you left after a few weeks. showed you working there. and it is a simple key stroke on weather they want to put something bad on it or not.

 

MCT,

Heard this story before...

 

what'd comcar do? start forcing out old drivers to make room for the younger drivers? about every ccc owned truck i seen in the past. had a driver that must of been pushing 80 in age.

 

I'll hazard a guess here ... it's been my experience most (not all) companies that say you will be home on weekends translates into getting home very late Friday night or even Saturday morning and have you leaving out again early Sunday morning or early Sunday afternoon and that's IF they get you home on most weekends. Not worth it to me, either. If I wanted to work six days a week I can make more than $70k being away from home.

 

I know a driver who worked for ComcAr and was paid $14 a tanker load, four to six times per day. Granted, the trips were only about 40-45 miles or so but still ....

 

thats just how long it takes to pay off your company training
started at CCC in 1992 ... Escaped in 1993 !


OP was getting rich compared to what CCC paid back then

 

Truck drivers are seriously underpaid so why is that? Fresh drivers out of school really don't know any better. These companies would pay you 5 CPM if they could so all I can say is think about what a company is paying you and how much you've got to work to earn it. If you run single you can expect to run around 3,000 miles per week and that's a good week now think about your 25 CPM rate and do the math, that's 750 bucks then take about 28% of that for taxs then you've got to eat and you've got other expenses such as insurance. Now at 35 CPM that's around 1,000 bucks, sounds good don't it but wait you are still working for peanuts. A good way to see what you are making is to check you time when you get to work and take away the time you are asleep then add up your hours on the job and you will be surprised at how little you are making. It's 168 hours in a week so if you get 8 hours sleep per day that's 56 hours sleep if you are lucky so that gives you 112 hours per week on the job. If you are a dock worker you will make low end around 18 bucks per hour. If a road driver made 18 bucks per hour his pay would be over 2,000 per week so check your time on the job and see just what you are making. You don't get paid for waiting on a load do you, that's work too. Some day these companies will run out of drivers and maybe they will pay more but until then it's slave pay.