Landstar is getting cheap.

We'd All Like that- Not Calling you a bs'er- But $7500-8000 per week in 1 truck hauling Legal "Freight"....? That's $400.000 k Per year

Regularly?? Was it Peter Pan That his Nose would Grow If he Told a lie?

 

regularly doing a thousand a day after expenses would be netting 250 to 300k a year. Id have to see a tax return to believe that nonsense.

 

He's Peter Pan

 

400 a day for driver salary? I'm not paying a driver two thousands dollars on a 5 day work week.

 

I missed the part where he said $7,500-$8,000 every week. Everyone knows you have a week of time off every now and then and most people also even take weekends off. $1,000 booked per working day on average is very do-able.

Edited - ok, I missed the part about $1700-$2500 a day.

 

So let's say you quote a 500 mile run. 500 divide by 6mpg, is roughly 80 gallons. 80x$2.7 per gallon, make it roughly $250 for fuel. So for that 500 mile run you quote $1250.
If it's 300 miles you quote the same way to get your $1000 daily after fuel. Or you can get $1500 going in bad area and $500 coming back. For example you do IN-PA 500 miles for $2000 and $750 on the way back.
When market permits you try to make more money. When market is bad, you still try to get a $1000. Sometimes you can speak to 50 brokers before you get your daily minimum.
This is the way I do it

 

Why not? With all the benefits experienced drivers make about that much at good trucking companies

 

What drivers are making $2,000 a week with benefits? Union LTL carriers get close to that maybe? For 95% of employee drivers out here they have subpar benefits and are lucky it they bring home $750-$800 a week. Some of the luckier ones maybe a $1,000 a week. Trucking is overall a very low paying profession.

 

No, but a Good Driver Should make $1400--$1600 per week Gross (Plus benefits) Which can almost Accrue the 2k- But it wont.

Like Coal says. Many Carriers pay a Subpar salary to OTR drivers where they Bring Home $600-700 after taxes... Tough to raise a Family on that.

The Guy saying he likes to make $1700-$2500 PER DAY is living in a separate World

 

Only the top earners at the best paying companies will make 100k a year. 75k is much closer to realistic. And a small fleet will never be able to match the pay of the elite jobs.