Driver Salary

tbeyre referring to gross and don't forget to add insurance garnishment if you have any.

 

I came back to drive after taking a few months off jan 7th 2015.
Jan-07-15 - June-02-15 made 16k at (werner) lame i know..
my current company june-20-15 to dec 31st made 32k take a week off a month to give you a idea
now my avg is$900ish net a week and im kinda a lazy driver

 

Ok whatever

 

Im a contract driver for an undisclosed company moving us mail. I work 12 hours a day, 5 days a week and make around 79.4k a year. That's around 1540 gross, 1190 net.
During the winter rush we have the ability to work 6 days a week and make 1800+.

There's a lot of high paying driver jobs out there but you won't hear about them on this forum. It's full of cr england, swift, prime and other bottom of the barrel trash common carriers that pay next to nothing.

Pm me if you'd like and I'll give you a list of local/home daily companies that all pay 65k + year.

 

How does that help new driver ,dry van

 

I would like to learn about these opportunities but I am new to this forum and can not private message yet

 

When employers talk or advertise wages they talk gross always. Bigger numbers gets bigger fish. It is that simple.

In fact most employers over inflate the numbers to entice drivers. The only honesty, if any, is they will project wages to an abnormally high number that could never be achieved. For example it is not uncommon to find an employer advertising a projected income of $65,000 a year, but they only pay $.30 CPM. Doing the math:
$65,000/52 weeks = $1,250 a week. But @ $.30 CPM in a 60MPH truck: $1,250/ ($.30cpm x 60mph) = 70 hours. You would have to drive that truck at 60mph for all 70 of your working hours a week to see that projection.

In reality you would never see that and you cannot contest it to the department of labor since it is only a projection. The company will have a litany of excuses why you didn't make the projection and therefore they don't have to live up to their advertisement. They get bigger fish with less money.

 

No trucking follows basic economic principles. The reason the rate per mile went up,($.25 -.35), is because the mega mega Swift was forced to go to elogs. Elogs, cut the number of miles down that drivers made, especially at Swift since there were plenty that colored the book their own special way. Less miles = less money, and what was barely tolerable living at Swift, became poverty. They tried a scam, and called it Plus 1, of getting drivers more miles by lying to them about pick-up and delivery times. The theory in that they should be able to accommodate the elog and its drop in pay, by getting the driver one more load a week. It didn't work at all and they lost drivers by the masses. Too, keep drivers in the seats they had to raise the CPM rate.

Since Swift raised their pay scale, everybody else in the industry had to raise theirs as well to compete. How can any company compete for drivers when they can go to Swift and get a higher rate of pay?

That is an example how regulations affected pay. Nothing is out of the influence of economic factors.

To contradict this rase in rate. All these trucking companies have lobbied for more forgien drivers. They have lobbied for more across the border Mexican trucking companies. Every week another bill comes across for heavier trucks and/or longer trucks.

 

I see lots of these companies have raised starting pay to .38 starting out. To make 65k a year you would need 3300 miles a week if they have that much freight. 3300 / 7 days is about 475 miles a day driving and can be done in 8-9 hours with my calculations.