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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JRammit, post: 5513915, member: 188380&quot;]Ya&#039;ll talk about hauling fuel like its good... Where I sit it&#039;s not good... It&#039;s not bad either... It&#039;s just amazingly average actually</p><p><br /></p><p>I drive for a small carrier in Dallas/Ft Worth... Hourly drivers are rare down here, the vast majority of us are paid by the load... Which means safety is second, speed is first... Personally I drive safe and make up my time on deliveries, but the same can not be said for most drivers</p><p><br /></p><p>Commission/load pay means &quot;taking the good with the bad&quot;... Which can be down right frustrating when it&#039;s bad, cause you&#039;re only doing what you&#039;re told... You live and die by dispatch, all dispatchers have their favorite drivers, make sure you&#039;re one of them or you&#039;ll never make any money</p><p><br /></p><p>The way it works (where I&#039;m at), all local loads pay about the same, weather it&#039;s 5 miles or 50.. Out of town loads pay a percentage, most are decent, some are not.. We&#039;re paid an hourly rate for delays, but the first hour is always free.... 5 loads a day is decent money, but even if you&#039;re willing and able, that isn&#039;t always possible, all depends on dispatch and rack time (it&#039;s not uncommon to use up 3 or 4 &quot;free hours&quot; at the loading rack in a day)</p><p><br /></p><p>When you do the math, you can expect to average $13-$14 an hour if you&#039;re slow, $16-$17 if you&#039;re fast... The high end doesn&#039;t sound bad, until you realize that&#039;s about the going rate for any driving job in this region... I don&#039;t know anyone around here who would drive a commercial vehicle for less than $15 an hour</p><p><br /></p><p>However, there is one BIG plus about fuel (probably the only reason I still do it), its STEADY work... We may not make any more than any non hazmat driver, but we&#039;re still working when they&#039;re not, so we come out ahead in the long run.... But, to me there is a difference between making more and working more</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;All that said, I love what I do and I love who I do it for... I just wonder if I&#039;m the only one who thinks this way??.... Is it worth it???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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