Monthly income 3000+

I started looking a while back. I've been out of a truck close to 30 years. When I decided to go back I needed a company that would pay to get my commercial license back, would accept that I have 3 DUI convictions (newest one is over 25 years old none in a CMV, I'm not quite that stupid) and got me at least by the house twice a week. Don't need longer than a couple hours each time. So I needed Southeast regional. It took some looking. I found that and they've been pretty good so far pushing back my starting date while I sold my house in California and moved to Tennessee. Now I hope to be starting first week of April. Jobs are out there, I was afraid I'd be stuck doing coast to coast for the first year, if that was it, I wasn't going to be able to. I just wanted to go back to something where I wasn't working (and treated) like a dog. I know a LOT of drivers will say trucking isn't that, but after doing warehousing and oilfields, I'd rather do trucking. Keep looking, the job you want is out there, just got to find it.

 

You could so that with Prime, as a company driver...

Not saying Prime is the shiznt. Who wants to drive 62mph...

It just reminds me on living in Salt Lake City, UT. Why do the temporary employment driving jobs pay more than the local jobs?

 

Well good luck to you on that search in the world of OTR trucking. As people have stated, you need to make yourself more marketable. I'm a well paid Teamster Union tanker driver and work Monday-Friday and I'm home every afternoon. I claim single and zero on my taxes and I only bring home about $4400.00 a month after grossing a little over 90K for 2019. When you factor in the cost of the benefits and retirement that comes out of your pocket, I don't know how you could make that happen?

 

I have an auto shift coming available in the four-states region....
Home weekly avg 1400 a week before taxs
Dedicated frieght
The two guys on it this week did 2100 and 2300 dollars this week
Avg is 57cpm

 

3600mi a week?

 

No the avg is around 2400 miles...an occasional week is more
I did 2800.miles this week
2.nd truck prob going to be around 1800 and a layover
3rd truck did 25 or 2600 miles
Last week the other two crossed 3000 miles each and got paid xtra for the backhauls which isn't normal for us

 

Ok those #'s make more sense.

Edit: If you dont mind answering, what are the trucks grossing on average every week?

 

Guys are on a % our outbound rate pays round trip so the backhauls really boost our numbers when we get them...

But all four of my guys cross 70k a year and the avg is above 57cpm