By "Real" numbers he means the ones he made up.
I can offer these real numbers from my own history. I started in 1999 at Roehl transport. I believe I started at .28 per mile then(I think they start at 30 now but am not sure.) Milage rate increased by.04 after the first year an went up .01 per after that. There were one or two bumps to the rate during my tenure to offset the new HOS regs.
Anyway my first year I earned around 41k working on an out out 11 being off 3. Not the best schedule to be sure but manageable. My last three or four years I made 70k+usuallu working schdules where I was gone three weeks then took a week at home. Again not normal to be sure but it was what worked best for me and my family. During this entire time my wife was able to stay home with my son and athen also with the children we were able to adopt.
Not sure what I spent on food but am sure it never was over a hundred dollars. Two thousand mile weeks usually only entered my picture when that week involved coming home or leaving. Sure there were a few lemon weeks over the years but I tried to turn them into sight seeing opportunities.
During my time spent as a driver trainer I got a real eye opener as to the cause of much of the turnover. I was amazed by the sheer number of folks that hopped into my truck that had no idea what they were getting themselves into. People made comments like "I didn't realize there would be so much driving involved" or "I thought we would be getting getting hotels and only use the bunk as an emergency".
I don't claim to have all the answers but I do know that laying around feeling sorry for ones self will not yield a positive result.
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