Does barr nunn really pay 105-120K a year as advertised?

I'm late to this thread but I'll add to it. I team with my wife so I can't speak for solo. As of Dec 9 I was at $109k gross, $14k of that is accessory and safety bonus pay. We have taken 13 weeks off this year. We have been here almost 2 years and will be at $1 a mile next month.

I think northeast regional shift pay is the highest paying gig for solo drivers. I talked to a guy that claimed he was on pace to make $135k this year doing that, but that just his word. It's possible though.

 

$1.00 pm? Roll on y'all...

 

Thought Barr Nunn was a short haul outfit let us see how you average 150.000 miles a year running 300 400 mile loads at night.

 

like I said in another post I talked to a driver a while one day... He said he had to wait a while to get to 0.70 and there was a lot of layover.. He was on a his second day of layover while I talked to him.

He said it was a purely OTR-regional company.. Meaning 25 days out or resets home as per the usual with big carriers...

SUMMARY: typical OTR-Regional mega but with slightly better CPM that probably is negated by layover. You probably miss resets home too...

 

A tip for anyone weighing these recruiting numbers: ask the recruiter to put the whole pay package in writing - the CPM, what counts as a paid mile (practical vs shortest route), the average weekly miles that fleet actually runs, and exactly how any bonus is calculated. The big advertised number almost always assumes top miles every single week of the year, no downtime, no slow freight. The settlements people posted above are worth more than any ad. If a carrier is serious, they will show you anonymized settlements from a current driver on the region you would run. If they dodge that question, that tells you something too.

 

O have a family member that works for them and have seen his pay stubs and he averages I would say about $1500 bring home per week. And it looked like he stayed in Ohio,Pennsylvania,North Carolina was the majority of his stops. He does 2 weeks on and one week off flys out of NC to FL

 

No layover pay..

A.K.A. The old high CPM and top earner advertising that obviously still works..

A.K.A. marketing towards people who think you're suppose to wait on a load at a big carrier.. sometimes even years in to being a driver..

 

Not a thing your typing makes sense to me. What difference does it make whether its in writing or not? That doesn't suddenly make the company pay 100k, or to live up to their promises. If you look at Barr Nunn's running area.... which seems to be primarily midwest and south, it should be obvious that its going to be tough to make 100k plus just on driving alone. You'd have to get hellified accessory pay and every bonus on top of the guaranteed miles. Maybe one driver got it and they used that as an ad. Showing settlements, anonymous or not isn't worth ####....shows nothing more than an earning possibility. Drivers only show the one settlement that was their best week and then say, that's what they make every week. No 2 Drivers will have the exact same story, because they usually have 2 different work ethics so and they are running 2 different loads all the time. Drivers do this job hopping and constantly get disillusioned because they talk to so many other drivers, get convinced to make a change, and then don't understand why the story doesn't match....it's simple.....it's 2 different authors.

 

I know it's a lost cause, but here goes:

If you know they are paying that rate and people here are clueless, why did you come here to ask?

I know for a fact that their drivers are often laid over at DCs and truck stops without pay, which negates all that 'top earner' advertising and the $0.70 per mile rate.

Anyone with experience knows that 'top earner' and high CPM advertising usually signals a bad company with insane turnover—likely lacking insurance, 401(k)s, PTO, deadhead pay, or layover pay.

To put it in context: for many years, even here, Western Express was pushed to new drivers with claims that $100k per year for company drivers was common.

TL; DR; that old high-turnover mega trick