Average miles annually for over the road drivers would be?

I ran 141k last year doing otr open deck work with 70% of my miles being under a OD permit of some sort. In a slow company truck with an eld.

Doing legal freight the first two years on a “regional” account I ran 149k and 141k being home most weekends. Running from Wichita to Montreal with a multi stop load, down to WV and back to Wichita. “Regional” was a loosely applied term at my company.

 

I’m local and I do at most 200 a day. But usually at around 150 miles in 10-11 hours per day.

 

Lol....well I do have 7 acres of land with lots of trees...but rake should be take lol

I also Tons of firewood, all my dead fall gets cut and split. Approximately 10 cords sitting aged, split and cut. I heat my house with it to reduce my natural gas costs.

 

My last year hauling long haul was 147,000 miles.
After that I went regional and did just under 100,000 a year plus home every weekend.

 

Yea but you're paid hourly and paid by the stop. Us OTR guys are paid straight mileage, and a little bit of extra stop pay, not much. You're paid to sit waiting for loads and unloads, we aren't, at least not until we've been there long enough to have set roots and sprouted a flower.

 

It really depends on what type of life you want to live, OTR typically gets you 10K or more per month, but some like to spend a bit more time at home and do as little as 8K per month as an OTR driver. I say drive as little as possible for as much as you can lol, but at my company we have drivers who live in their trucks full time and do over 140K.

 

I drive around 400 miles a day 6 days a week averaging 120,000 miles a year paid and they pay by the hour. $25 an hour plus overtime and double-time.