Looking to go back OTR

Part of the problem will be if you appear to be a job hopper, in these market conditions, it makes it harder. Right now trucking companies can pick and choose like never before. This will end probably in 6 months, and start reversing again, but until then, it will make it tough for you. Good luck.

Wes

 

stay home!!!!!!!! They all are geared to slave wages.....you will be sorry.....think about it a minute pal.....

You spend 24 hours a day in that smelly truck right....ok we established that.......

You drive 500 miles a day if you are lucky....lets say you make 35 cents a mile.....

500x.35=175.00 a day.....know take

175.00 / 24 hours = 7.29 an hour......know take 20.00 bucks for food away from that .....lets see

175.00-20.00=155.00 a day

155.00/24 = 6.45 an hour...thats what you make....

No overtime/ no time and a half
crappy health care
crappy 401k if they even have one
slow AZZZZ smelly trucks.
Missing family and loved ones.
Dot crap
road stress etc,etc, etc

ask yourself this? Are you really wanting to sacrifice all this for 6.45 an hour and lie and justify it to yourself while driving down the highway?is it really worth it?


....LETS SEE local play out a minute......at a cheap 11.00 an hour..

11.00 AN HOUR X 40 HOURS =440.00

10 HOURS OVERTIME WOULD BE 16.50

SO 16.50 X 10 = 165.00....KNOW TAKE

440.00+165.00=605.00 gross.....

605.00 for 50 hours(this is local work gross pay)

875.00- 100.00 for food=750.00 gross pay for 120 hours worked(road job at 5 days a week)

so in real life you only made a grand total of 145.00 extra

for 70 hours extra of work.....there are the real numbers no one will talk about.....

its slave wages.............

 

Bill starts driving taxicab again on Tuesday. He swore when he got his CDL he would NEVER go back to it but guess what? IT PAYS THE SAME AS OTR 1PISSED OFF DRIVER WE SALUTE YOU!!!!!!!

 

DRIVING 18 WHEELER HAS TURNED OUT IN THE END AS ANOTHER MCDONALDS JOB....

ITS NOT EVEN RECOGNIZED AS IN U.S.A. AS A SKILLED TRADE....

PEOPLE ARE GETTING MARKETED TO JOIN OTR AND ARE TAKING A SEVERE BEATING....

ITS SAD..

 

You'd be an absolute lunatic to go to work anywhere in the Truckload industry. You'll be alot better off to take your skills to Burger King. You'll make more and be in a much more stable environment.

 

wow maybe that is your trucking life but not everyones...if your truck smells clean it than go take a shower.

freight is slow but it is that time of year

i have great benefits so maybe you are working for the wrong company

so work on your problems than start giving advise.

 

the total truth of a "truckers" life is workaholism and slave wages....i am not going to candy coat it....

Its 120 hours a week......no matter which way you look at it..

Drivers do not get payed for the time they have put into this...its a cold hearted fact.....

 

you got that right....."more stable environment"

 

I think a more accurate picture of hourly rate would be to use the total of line 3 and 4 and to divide into your weekly pay. Yeah, you are out on the road the whole time but sleep time and off duty is just that. But yes, it still sucks.
Thats why I don't do that OTR stuff. I average about 18-20 an hour, but some weeks we may only work a couple of days, if the weather is bad.
But at my age, thats ok too.