Monthly income 3000+

Funny. I got my CDL 10 years ago. I had never driven a manual anything. I asked my school if I could have an automatic to learn and test on and they basically laughed in my face. So I struggled with a 10 speed till I got it down. My how the times have changed...

 

Megas are so terrible please never go to them save up the money and go to an actual school saving 5000 on school does nothing when you're only making 2000 a month.

 

I enjoyed this company a lot. Everyone I met there was great, would definitely recommend.

need to get rid of that auto restriction ASAP though if you can.

 

Yeah, get rid of the auto restriction and get the hazmat endorsement. Even reefer companies pull hazmat loads.

 

No you wouldn’t. I claim 0 have a little taken out for insurance and has and put 3 percent in a 401k and will clear over 1k on a 1400 dollar gross. Ten cpm of my pay is per diem though which helps greatly.

The check I get my bonus on is where I get raked over the coals. 2200 to 2400 gross ends up being 1400 to 1600 take home.

 

Holy smokes!!! $500 a week? Amd out for nearly a month to a wack?

I'm out for a 5 to 8 days at a time and clear $1100 AFTER taxes for most runs. Its health insurance for the family that takes me over the coals... Before all taxes and deduction I grossed $61k, after health insurance I made $48k. Yeah, $13k a year for health insurance...

At least its D### good insurance, $0 deductible, $1,000 annual max out of pocket per person, $10 co-pay for Dr. visit, max co-pay $400 (surgery). After all that insurance covers 100%. My wife had a $15k surgery in December, we had already met her out of pocket max so, it didn't cost us a single red cent.

But I do put in alot of miles... Nearly 150k in 2019... Or 12,500 miles a month average.

Small family owned and operated reefer outfit based in South East Idaho.

 

Talked with two of their drivers on the radio one night for a couple hundred miles. They liked it at IWX.

 

I've heard other CFI drivers say that same thing. One guy told me they were trying to focus on maintaining a particular average. He would have a really good week, with big runs, then they'd cool him all the way down by design

 

Communism. They're trying to make sure that all of their drivers make about the same amount of money. Slackers are rewarded and A Gamers punished. Now I understand the $500/week.

 

Incurring debt instead of stacking money to pay cash for truck etc first was the problem.

Eliminate the truck and house and your income situation improves drastically and you can return to stacking while trucking.

200 a week or two is not acceptable. This is not 1970 anymore. Something is seriously wrong to make that little in today's trucking. Personally i wont go out for less than 1000 net weekly.