How much do you REALLY make per hour?

No offense, but

Your figures have to be way off. If you drive 65mph 70 hrs a week that is $.37 hub mile to avg. 24.05
No way. Esp. from werner.

I think werner starts students at .26-.28 anyway. Experience will get you around 32. both HHG.
Not good

 

Ah but there is the rub. Trucking is "exempt" from the federal minimum wage standard. Union carriers have negotiated the time and a half pay rate after 40 hours or in some cases after 8 hours per day.

The rest of trucking is calculated at straight pay. No over time for otr drivers.

Remember trucking is NOT the same as a "normal" job. The pay is not the same either.

 

For a new driver making $.30 per mile, averaging 65mph, working day in day out, and only logging two 15min periods a day. One for a pretrip another for loading or unloading.

Working day in day out your max LOG time is 8.75hrs.
Minus pretrip and load/unload 8.25hr available to drive.
that eguals $18.38 per hr
factor in OT $15.66
This isn't going to happen.


You will not avg. 65mph. You will be shorted anywhere from %2 to %10 percent of your miles (industry norm).You will avg. way more than 15mins at the shipper/receiver.Being paid by the mile insures that you will not be compensated for many hours of time and labor. And it also shields the company from the many many variables of doing this job.
You will pay for other peoples mistakes with your time/labor.
Its "part of the job".

A really "good" week you'll drive 60hrs at avg 60mph and the company will pay you 3300miles. But you'll avg. over 80-90hrs doing work related activities. But you'll get to travel from truck stop to truck stop.

I could go on but I'm hoping your beginning to see a bigger picture.
A lot of companies you won't even avg minimum wage.

 

074344.
That has to be a union gig. Right?
Until I enter OTR i was anti-union.
But now that I've experienced what a powerful lobby, loose labor laws and a work force that is too diverse in location to band together gets treated.
I've changed my mind.

 

between 20 and 28 dollars an hour. lifes good...

 

We joke about this in the office. You take a day off (for which you lose 8 hours of your allotted paid time off), but wind up working even more time than usual before you leave to be sure you have everything in order... and then you put in extra hours upon your return to clean up what was dumped during your absence. The net is that you get an hour or two of truly "time off". Cracks me up.

 

You can imagine how busy we got during tax season, but we were always doing alot of tax planning post Thanksgiving. That was usually my last day off until May.

You would be amazed how quiet the office was on Christmas and New Years. Worked many of those holidays. Usually because of late season IRS audits that put me behind. The office usually had about 125 people so you could hear all kinds of goofy noises.

 

Fueling is on line 4 - part of my 70, I don't call anyone, I have a QC and I demand its use extensively the ONLY TIME I call is when logs is being a brat.

I do admit there is some time that we spend on line 1 or 2 that we should be on line 4 but reality it amounts to less then 10 hours a week I am sure as if I am on line 2 im usually sleeping.

 

No, my husband has 7 years, we get .37 split - You want to see my paystub?