Made it one year

This is why I often avoid eye contact at truck stops or company terminals. I was thinking about this from an incident a couple of weeks ago. Running flatbed it's much more rare to meet complainers. Ran into a real doozy at a job site where we had to wait for a crew to take old air conditioning units off the top of a building before we could back in to position for the crane. I just about had to get my winch bar to pry him off my door. Got me to thinking how long it's been since I ran into a whiner in this gig. It's been almost a year. Refreshing.

 

Not trying to be a smart ### but your math is off, $1000 a week is $52,000 a year. I'm not a mathematician but i can definitely add on a calculator

 

He based his numbers on only working 10 months out of the year because of home time. It's still a little off, but I understood the point he was making.

 

Props for hanging in Tanker.
Thumbs up, duder.

 

Even on my hometime weeks i still average around 1k or more

 

I hear ya. Like I said, his numbers are still off. I was just clearing up what he was getting at. One of those "in theory" things. Lol

 

Whatever you do, don't go sideways with your career. Hang with Werner until you have a clear upward move. While some would say ANY move from Werner is an upward move, don't change jobs until you are sure the next job will be a multi year opportunity.

When I left Swift it took three months to go through vetting and hiring at my current company, partly because I could only meet face to face in OKC about once a month. Lots of hoops, but well worth it. This company is only O/O's, so not only did I have to go through approval by the company I had to find and get hired by an owner.

If you aspire to own your own truck, then hire on with a company that is a clear winner for owners.

 

I would suggest getting away from the milage mentality and find a company that pays either a significant hourly wage, or pays by percentage. Milage has a built in cap, you know you'll never make more than X amount because you aren't going to drive more than X miles in a week. Flatbed drivers tend to get paid by percentage, and I've heard of a few dry van and reefer companies who pay by percentage although they are far fewer on that side than they are on flatbed.