I-5 Corridor

Plenty of good spots to park on I-5.......
OR and WA have better rest areas than Cali btw......

Cali rest areas restrooms are at par with a Tijuana restaurant....same smells and messes on the floors.....

 

i run i-5 and make pretty good money, its all about the company your with, stop pay and lay over help, if they have a yard in the la area you can park at and planning. like plane on not finding a spot at a truck stop after 6pm and the rest stops fill up by 9pm. but i make a pretty good living, its kinda borring but i run i-5 north, i-90 east , and 97 south usaully..

 

A couple jobs ago I was basically running I-5. Load in portland and do 5 or ten stops ending down by Visilia somewhere, then a back haul sometimes. The pay was not greatest but we was paid hub miles and got a motel every night. In winter the roads can be bad between Redding and Ashland but for me it was a good gig. You are limited as far as speed. How much can you make in a week? Thats a pretty open question and it really depends on who you would be working for.

 

Like most have stated, it all depends on who you work for. The company that I'm currently with pays on a sliding pay scale. When I started working for them last year, freight was slow and they would run me up and down I5 and Hwy 99. Most of the runs were short, so I was getting paid on the mid to high end range of the payscale. Even though the runs were short, the money was "okay" for the short runs. The most that I made in a week hauling freight up and down 5/99 when freight was slow was around $800 bucks. The lowest was around $350.

I was hauling freight that many impatient and angry drivers were refusing, so I was kept busy during that slow period and got on everyone's "good side" back at the office. Would I do it again? Hell no.

 

Between 8-900 per week for a four day week unless there was a backhaul. But you shouldnt be focused so much on what other people are making or have made because in the long run it will make no difference to you. Unless you can actually pinpoint someone on here that is making something in the ballpark of what you want to make. I would suggest talking to the drivers at the shippers/receivers/truck stops in your area and see what their companies have to offer. Two drivers can work for the same place and one can make half as much as the other one, because of the way he runs, dispatch, etc..........

 

forget about it. You will be lucky to make $500.00 for a 70 hr week. Forget about this $800-$900 stuff cause it ain't gonna happen. Don't beleive me then go ahead and sign up!