Back on the road. Lease purchase with JB Hunt

Read the first 25 pages or so any intel would be cool. Yeah obc/peoplenet is a pain basically drive a mile behind everyone. Youre lucky youre not throttled or speed capped though. They always load me heavy and these trucks absolutely cannot climb. Any numbers / details would be appreciated. Would you still have chose jb or another? Would you do it again if you could go back? Land...star looks decent according to one poster in your blog. Thanks in advance.

 

At 1400 net most weeks youre doing better than most company drivers

 

Only if you fail to add in the value of matching 401k, vacation, health insurance, workmans comp, etc. And use the typical mega fleet driver as the benchmark income level.

Food service, ltl, linehaul, and private fleets should be the salary benchmark, not swift and werner.

 

What part of my statement wasnt 100% accurate? I'm all for optimism but not at the expense of truth.

 

A statement of opinion is always 100% true.

Fact is, that there are 1.7 million drivers. Half of them make less than 45k a year. Only 10% make more than 64k. And the megas hardly account for 850,000 of the drivers.

 

I never said you can't get those things without an employer. However just because i cam but health insurance for my family does not mean there is no monetary value that can be placed on employer provided health insurance.

For example i pay over 1200 a month for our family health insurance. If i sold my truck and got a job at ups i would get there insurance, which is much better with lower co pays and at a much lower monthly cost than 1200 bucks. That has a monetary value.

Now I'm not saying an employee position is better, imo being self employed has many benefits that you can't put a monetary value on that are much more important to me. but the topic(specifically the post i quoted) was net income, those intangibles are a different conversation.

 

I don't dispute that the average income is low, average is the key word there. I don't know about the rest of you but being average had never been my goal. The majority of drivers can't get a good job through their own lack of skill and/or bad choices.

The beauty of this industry is how easy it is to put yourself in the top 10%. Dont hit things, pee clean, and don't job hop. That's pretty much it. Do those three things and with just a couple years experience you qualify for the gravy jobs. Location does play a role in it but very few of us can't relocate.