My experience running 100% legal, if anyone cares.

Why leave it in God's hands? Call today, call tomorrow and keep calling. Go in person if you can. Treat it as though it is your job and they will begin to do the same. Also don't be that guy that shows up without all the needed if to start a job...nobody likes that guy.

 

I am a wannabe so I may be wrong. In a perfect world if a driver ran for 10 hours every day - seven days a week - all year at (let's say) 38 cpm and averaged 50 miles/hour that would be $69,120. From what I have been reading 2,000 miles/wk is a good week and 52 weeks/year the total miles would be 104,000 miles. At 38 com that would be $39,520. So am I missing something here or is trucking a very low paying career for the time away from home, the hours, and the working conditions? Even with this in mind I am still considering driving due to my work status or lack of it.

I see that that with more years of clean driving experience as a new company driver will start out at about 25 to 29 com and go up to the lower 40 com as a company driver. Some drivers are saying that they make $100,000/year. How can this be if you drive legally?

 

Not much around back home?

 

Save up if you can and get a used vw tdi or an old mercedes turbo diesel. Those get from 30-60mpg, run forever, and extend your range. Give you a few more options at least.

 

You answered your own question. Look out your window & tell me if you see a perfect world.

2,000 miles a week is a joke. If you are a O/O and get the rates to justify it, then 2000 miles a week can be profitable. But as a company driver, you'll be starving at the 2000 mile mark. Your not making money as a company driver unless you can turn 3000+ a week.

Do your perfect world math!!!

$69,120.00
10 hours a day x 7 days = 70 hours (most driver work more then that in a week)
70 hours a week x 52 weeks = 3,640 hours
$69,120.00 divided by 3,640 hours = $18.98 per hour in that perfect world.

Now lets go into the real world....

Most drivers work 100 or more hours per week... Do you also want to count the time being away from home? Or the time stuck at shippers? Consignees? Stuck in traffic? How about the time dealing with just normal traffic flow?

You sir have issues!!!

Well they are either lying, set up in a union to where they get paid to fart, or are O/O that aren't considering their operating costs.