A different question about first year pay

$45k is doable, depends a lot on the company. I started as a student pulling dry vans and made very close to that my first 12 months. I was close to 50k by my second year and now after 5 years I made a couple hundred dollars under 60k. It can be done, but probably not the norm.

 

I made around 35k my first year at 30cpm the whole year. Detention extra stops and layover is a negative because if I am doing those things its taking away from my miles that I can drive, and make more money then those would pay me. Just saying my experience so far with reefer/dryvan. That being said I bet if you told 1000 drivers they could make 45k on the first year about 900 of them would not get more than 35k. so to the op yes you can but its not easy. think outside the box. If you just go to a mega carrier I just don't see you getting there.

 

Ask yourself, What can you do physically, What is your weekly income goal, What do you need from trucking besides a job. So many numbers thrown out to recruit drivers is mind boggling.
Varies with Location and Company. Do some researching and question drivers in person.

 

1. 40cpm is not average. Not for a rookie anyway. Most rookies are in the 28-32 range unless of course you go to prime. Or pull specialized type equipment like flatbed, ltl and tanker. Top pay at my company is .40cpm. I was hired at top pay. I have been here almost 4 years and no raise, but I knew that coming in. Others will cry because they didn't get a raise even though they knew it coming in

2. 2500 is a realistic average for most companies, but it will amaze you how hard it is for some companies to keep you at that average or above that average. How hard is it to knock out 500 miles in 5 days to get 2500 miles. That's when appointment times, unloading, and loading times eat up the day. You could have a multiple stop load that's 500 miles in all. 400 miles to the first stop. and 100 miles to the next stop, but it delivers the next day. So you have wasted 3 days on a 500 mile load.

You will also see companies who offer high mileage pay to stay in a particular region, but they will very seldom see 2500 miles maybe closer to 1500-2000 range.

3. Trucking use to be more outlaw, and while we were in our outlaw days and making lots of money. We may have bought a few expensive toys, ran up the credit card, married a high maintenance wife that has high maintenance kids. Maybe had a high paying job but when the economy tanked, the wife left or could still be there. Law enforcement put in the E Logs and no more getting slapped on the hands for outlaw driving.Now all those bills are still due each month.

Also you must understand the benefits in this industry for the most part are expensive. Some are paying up to 200 a week for health insurance. Not a month a week 800 a month.  That's what I was paying 5 years ago for family insurance. So lets take a 1000-150 in taxes-130 in health benefits/life insurance etc.- 200 dollars in child support. So that's 480 in fixed cost that you won't see. If you have no child support that's 200 added back into the equation. So in my situation that 520 that I can sen home right? ... No because I need about 75 dollars to live off of on the road. So I get to send 445 dollars home to moma to pay the bills and she won't be able to seen me for another 2 or 3 weeks.  Thats just based on the 2500 mile week. @.40cpm. you do the math on a 2,000 mile week, and see how happy moma is to have you gone all the time. Or even do it at the rookie rate of .30cpm and see how much you will make.  Guess you can understand why we ran outlaw 4,000 mile weeks back in the day.

 

DO NOT SKIP EITHER OF THESE TWO VIDEOS>>>>>>

EXCELLENT ROOKIE EXAMPLE - WATCH THESE AND NOTICE THE DATES MADE



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6XFo0srEDU
Then, watch this one (Watch the two in order)
The starting pay is low (29cents / mi.) , but you stay 3 months you get a seven cent raise. Pet can ride also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ee6ArJMAo
By mid summer the goal of the company is to have all trucks Three years or newer.

 

Did't he used to post here??

 

I don't know... I really have not tried.... I just saw him on you tube.

 

Lot of talk going on here, but noone's showing the numbers so i'll be the first

Pay
32.5 cpm,34.5cpm after you are upgraded to permanent dispatcher
30 tarp pay for tarp and un tarp (not each)
drop pay is 10 ea for the first 2 drops and builds up from there

Now we all know that miles is what counts because 40cpm on 0 miles is still 0! I have tracked every single mile via custom made spreadsheets since starting as a solo driver. This information is based on approx 13.5 weeks of data. I am on the 200 fleet (OTR)

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[TR]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl63"]weekly avg gross pay[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl64, align: right"]863.29
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl63"]Avg paid miles per week[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl64, align: right"]2392.92[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

[TABLE="class: cms_table"]
[TR]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl65, colspan: 3"]calculated gross income for 2013[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]44891.28[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TABLE="class: cms_table"]
[TR]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl70, colspan: 3"]total % of miles unpaid[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl64"]4.79%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl68, colspan: 2"]total miles on route[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl66"]28565.70[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl67, colspan: 2"]total paid miles[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl66"]27197.00[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl67, colspan: 2"]total miles OOR[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl63"]83.3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl67, colspan: 2"]total hub miles[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl63"]28649[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl67, colspan: 2"]Total miles unpaid[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl63"]1368.7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl67, colspan: 2"]lost mileage pay[/TD]
[TD="class: cms_table_xl65, align: right"]444.83[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

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2014 will be my first tax year. My goal is 52k and i'm on track so far.