If You Want To Drive A Big Rig You Need To Read This

hawkjr · Sep 26, 2014

Guys gotta stop thinking that only bottom feeders are going to hire them fresh outta school. Do some research you'll be shocked at some of the smaller outfits that would hire you & how superior they're to these larger outfits. More hometime, better pay & usually better equipment

GenericUserName · Sep 26, 2014

moraramis said: ↑

$200-$650 a week isn't good money. If you don't have that many bills it might look like it is good money, but it isn't. You were just lucky enough to have low overhead costs. Go look up the history of OTR and come back and tell me again the model was designed for frequent hometime. The less cents per mile you are paid the longer you are going to have to stay out. Now if you are getting paid pretty decent than obviously you don't have to run as long to make as much money as someone who ran 6 straight weeks for lower pay. Not everyone knows the companies that pay really well, and student drivers are for sure not getting paid that well. So my advice was practical for the people not getting paid that well. It'd be great if everyone got paid at least .50cpm, but that's not a realty yet.

My original post was concerning OTR not Regional or Local Driving. Regional and Local caters to frequent hometime.
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I make way more than that lol.

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