Never drive for a company that starts you out below .40 cents a mile!

If this thread is only about money$$(I didn't read the whole thread)
I will have to add..If the carrier you are working for is a good "Fit" for you and you run where you want and when you want then taking a few cents less in top pay is a good trade-off(just my opinion)..
Also
I will add...financial success or security isn't only about what you make but more importantly what you do with it..

I would hope some people would have learned that lesson after the recent economic collapse of '08..
I watched many many people and neighbors making $100k a year lose the house cars and wind up Broke..


While another neighbor and his wife with only a household income of $50k but had everything paid off remain happy in their homes..

 

As long as we blame the new driver, lease operator, O/O for being dumb, experienced, for taking crap jobs, or failing. We let the industry continue to abuse drivers. Blaming them holds nobody in power accountable. There is just too many drivers out there. NO matter how smart or dumb there are only so few good jobs. As drivers we should hold those crap jobs accountable not those who work there. Having drivers well trained, paid well, good benefits, improves my quality of life on the road. What doesn't improve my life is saying " Yea I got it great, those others are getting what they deserve for being pieces of xhit, too bad for them."

 

I certainly don't want to argue particularly with you on your own thread..
but I will continue to stress that you are incorrect in your thinking

it isn't what you make ..its (the most important)what you DO with it..

Millionaires have gone broke time/time again..

Willie Nelson owed the .Govt 16million in taxes..Do you have ANY idea what his income had to be for him to OWE 16million in just taxes on his income?
and yet he filed and went Bankrupt?

Life/happiness is not determined by what you make but how you live,the quality of life you have and what you do with it(both life/money)

As far as drivers pay?..its a free market and the market will even itself out(always has/always will)



Im done.

 

Most the drivers today are new and recruiters get to them before the veteran drivers can talk them out of making a mistake.Unfortunately only a small handful comes to forums and takes the advice from members.They think recruiters knows it all and in the meantime the recruiter is saying another sucker born and laughing.

 

Two reasons:

1. There are drivers who get blinded by the companies' "Our average drivers make $XX,000 per year!" claims without asking how the company gets to that 'average', and,

2. There are many folks who are underemployed or unemployed and who have had the childhood dream of 'driving the big rigs.'

Put them together with the unending stream of people going through their doors and what motivation do the starter companies' executives have to increase starting pay? They know they will have 100%+ turnover each year.

 

Someone who couldn't get a job that paid higher.

0.21 x 3,000 miles is $630 before taxes. That is considerably more than you can get working in in pretty much any entry level job that doesn't require a degree. It may sound like nothing to you, but someone making half that working the fryer at McDonalds would probably disagree with you. Someone like that who is used to earning much less would most likely know how to live quite comfortably on $630 per week.

I know I did.