Am I calculating the truck driver pay correctly?

Why get paid by the foot? Prostitutes get paid by the inch.

 

Try looking at the LTL companies in your area, often they start you out as a dockworker and then may help you get your CDL if they like your work and reliability. There's an LTL forum here.

 

OK OK let's start from the beginning because I'm confused, everybody is confused idk

First, new drivers get pay crap because they don't have experience. We are talking 18 cent per mile *knight*
Now I can do at least 550 miles a day. Average 400ish depending if I'm getting loaded that day.

550 miles times 18 cent is $99 a day.
Now we are not gna count detention pay, tarp pay, breakdown pay because you make your money driving. If the tires ain't moving, you're not making money.

Unless you work for walmart, you don't get pay sleeping in a truck. Just pure miles. Idk about you but $99 a day kinda suck.

Now there's another company that pays higher. So do your research and please don't join c.r. england

 

I would suggest making your decision on what company to go with from drivers and many posts on what a certain company is like.There is many commpanies that have a bad reputation,those you wanna stay clear from.

 

A recruiter will have (or has had) a field day with this one.

Recruiter: "you can make up to $40,000 your first year here"

Response: "so I will make $40,000 a month here? Where do I sign?"

 

Interesting, I didn't know they have trucks that drive on water. Us isn't the whole world as much as wish it was.

 

I actually came to this thread based on some long winded and meandering comment you posted on the thread "cheating logs". I found your lack of accuracy regarding the communication between the scales in Knoxville, TN and any scale outside the state of Tennessee disturbing, but I would have let I go. I did want to find out if all your posts are like that one. This one proves it. From what part of New Jersey is it 3,200 miles to Los Angeles? From Jersey City it is under 2,800 miles.
Second, regional does not imply that you are unloading your load. It means that you will be staying in the same geographic region, or in other words, your loads will range from 101 air miles to about 1,000 miles. Nothing that will take more than 2 driving days to arrive. You can have regional that are drop and hook only, and you can have long distance that requires you to unload.
Although I am sure the rest of your long comment has similar inaccuracies, I don't feel like taking it apart, piece by piece.

 

As much as I love reading patty's frequent posts on the woe's of the trucker, I can't seem to hit the unwatch thread button fast enough.