Driver earnings as from start of career and onward

You are the biggest factor to your pay then comes what you get paid, the company, type of freight, and your dispatcher. To me aggressive means giving 115% on top of 110% it may not matter to your 1st company or it could just depends but when you get noticed it will help. My last job in 2 months they knew I would work as hard or harder than any driver they had. That lead to extra loads and some gravy $$$ loads. My 1st job didn't recognize my work but it payed off later. You can't think $/hr or day. This industry is bottom line. As mentioned above there will be good wks and bad, make the most outta the good 1s and salvage what you can of the bad. Most big companies have trucks governed under 65 some 70 so speeding isn't a problem.

 

in your first year plan on making about 28/35 k

remember you are with a beginner company and you will not make top dollar.
your second year maybe 35K

1200$ is not unheard of as a company driver. (i make that and then some) but it will not be with any of the bigger company's

 

The trouble today is that you have a lot of these refugee
drivers flown in here from other countries who are willing
to work for peanuts.
When you couple that with the battered economy you
soon realize that pay rates are going down - not up.
I know several drivers who could show me pay stubs
from years ago that are higher than they are now.
Truckin doesn't pay what it used to.
And it doesn't look good down the road.

 

I make over 60K a year been driving over 3 years. I work for a local company that does not believe in cheap freight. I am not paid by the mile I am paid 26% of the load. I am home every weekend and I do work some 6 day weeks. I avg about 3K miles a week to make my 60K+

 

Hope this helps.

 

after reading lots of post on this site and checking adds for drivers expect about 10.00 an hour avg. witch is sad considering all the skill and responsability demanded of a driver. you can make more at mc donalds! everyone tells me you cant make any money in trucking but i sure see alot of trucks running the roads? i just dont get it. pretty disgusting.