Local job opprotunity

True, but a very livable wage depending on where you live though

 

Must have a lot of stops because 350 miles straight is only about 6.5 hours... I'd ask what the stop pay is and what all you gotta do... anything more than just dropping trailers I'd look for something else...

There are rookie drivers just starting out making $1000 a week..

 

I thought the 800 was just the extra stop pay. lol

 

My last job was 12-13 hours a day and 500 miles a night at 53.5 cpm. And I did a LOT of sitting. 350 miles in 12 hours means you’re basically sitting unpaid more than you’re driving and at 41 cpm no less. Sounds like a bad deal

 

Man 60 hrs a week for that low of pay. If I was gonna take that kind of pay the hours would have to be at 40 a week.

 

So, what happens when something goes wrong? When there's an issue with a trailer, and a 12 hour shift becomes a 14 hour shift? Or you have to finish on the weekend?

"Oh, sorry driver...you're paid by the mile."

 

Not a chance unless the wolf is at the door and there are no other options...No idea where you live, but even in Idaho thats pretty low down on the totem pole..... The route I started filling in for is an over night local run.., 3 states, 540 miles with about 2 hours of dock time. Pays $350/night. I still think thats on the cheap side, but am doing it because they gave me a shot with minimal "otr" experience and it fits my schedule

 

I know it's not apples to apples because I haul mail. But the run I do on 3 of my days is 342 miles, multiple stops, 12.5 hrs. Pays $313.75 a day. Includes 3 hours of down time I am paid for.
You're just not being compensated enough for a 12 hour day.

 

Drivers are a funny breed, it seems like we are forever griping about being classed as unskilled labor and whining about not being paid what we are worth. Now a guy comes up with a local gig that might pay him around a grand a week and every man to a t says don't take it. I would too if the job was here, but not knowing where local is, he might be the highest paid guy in town at that rate.

I knew a bank president whose bank went under the massive savings and loan fiasco. He spent a year looking for work, any work that he could make a living at, there was no need for bank presidents and everything else he applied for, he was told that he was over qualified.
He went to school and started driving, made as much money as he ever had with much less stress, once the economy took an upturn and he could have got back in an office, he elected to keep driving.