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i take it if i was going home evry night but starting out thats great i see alot of local Jobs driving for 9 or 10 hr here in el paso área cheap labor

 

Really?What company was that?Companies do pay an insulting and ambarrassing wage to truckers.Sad thing is no law defends us but yet defends companies by paying subsidies and other assistance..Companies that have the money with the governments help for like apus,routing system,elogs ect,no reason why they cant pay drivers more or quit hireing more drivers then freight so the other drivers can get the miles.Trucking is just A competive game and if they didn't get aid they couldn't afford all the luxuries they have now.Companies aren't real heart up to keep drivers but they are to hire them for the subsidy money they get for what they call creating a job.Sad thing is the employees quit long before the money is sent.Should be a law that companies don't qualify for that money till the driver has been there a yr or at least 6 months.Companies could care less if a driver stays or not.how many talks drivers into not quitting and how many calls that driver to come back to their company?

 

I must be really poor cause they seems like good money to me

 

"Salaried", "Local flatbed work", "$850 week" ???? ....... be very cautious. This is how the slave brokers talked the Negroes into getting on the ship "willfully". working 50-60 hours week? fine and dandy ... working 80 hours week, weekends, irregular hours, undependable schedule, stuck in traffic most of the time, dealing with messed up job sites? ... not so much

And are you even sure your checks will be good and cut on time for the duration?

 

You should be able to make $45K easy as a new CDL driver, with the right company. You can also make a lot more than that if you have the endorsements & TWIC.

I don't understand someone spending thousands of dollars for a private CDL school, then signing on with a company that pays average $28K-$30K annually when they can just as easily sign on with companies paying $50K-$65K.

 

I was thinking 24K for the first year in otr trucking. And maybe a 1K raise after each year of experience. I'm a writer, not a trucker. Am I that far off?

 

It took me a year to save 2000 for school. Nowadays most people live from paycheck to paycheck. It a how life is, just enough to get by, how potus said, lack of upward mobility. It's really hard when you have all those bills and close to minimum wage pay. One little mistake or misfortune can become a big deal

 

No, the pay won't change that much from beginning to end. The key is to get in the right niche in the beginning. A new driver can make just as much as an experienced driver. The good money is LTL, tanker/hazmat, flatbed. There's one company, Millis Transfer, the drivers seem to make about $50K & it's a dry van company.