New Driver Pay

I'm pretty sure you're a recruiter.

I started 10 years ago for 32cpm, averaged 2900 miles a week. I make 66cpm now, team and average 5700 miles a week.

Your math is vague at best. $600 gross is $31,200 gross per year.

$600 divided by (your) 2200 miles is 27 cents per mile. That's ridiculously low driver pay.

After 1 year, Crete advertises 41 cpm, 3 years experience pays more.

Do us a favor. Post your company's awful CSA score here.
Post CRST's 1st year pay scale here.
Post their turnover rate while you're at it.

This is not a personal attack. But please, help new people that are on this forum look for and find decent paying jobs that fit their situation.

You can get decent training. You can get decent pay. But from the little experience I have, from the dozens of CRST drivers I've talked to, here is not the place.

Good day to you, sir.

 

And that is the end of that!

 

Crash Roll Stunt Team - Mr Recruiter ... After 6 months no driver should take the 31,200 u speak of. I went to JB Hunt and ran intermodel. My avg pay was $800 a week plus I went home for 2 days after 5 days out.

 

Yeah as long as they don't have the 'I have felonies' or 'what kind of drug test' or 'who will hire me with a 15 over ticket' questions decent money can be made right off your trainers truck. You have to do the homework and the legwork to find the better companies and not jump on the first peaches and cream rainbow and sunshine wiener recruiter that comes to school and offers you a job.

For someone with a good record, background, and mvr......and teachable aptitude in the seat, decent companies are out there.

i did 43,890 first year in a brand new truck and home almost every weekend. They are out there.

 

I am a newbie on here for just a short time. Just from what I have observed it seems like CR England is at the very bottom from all the post I have read about them. CRST seems to be a good runner up for second from the bottom.

I have no experience at all, this is just my opinion from what I read on this site.

I'm sure all the recruiter's and companies read these forums also. I would think if someone has a bad reputation they would make an effort to change.

When I first decided I wanted to be a driver I typed in "Truck Driver Jobs" and came up with so much info.
Every company had the best of every thing. Great miles, great pay and the best and newest equipment.

Heck I would have signed on with any one of them.

Thank God for the info you get here. I have learned so much but still have so much to learn.

At first I was ready to jump on with CR England

 

My first job out of school was with the company I'm still with and paid .43loaded and .34empty + accessorial pay and 9 paid holidays with 2 personal days after 30 days and 2 weeks vacation after a year. I made just under $50k my first "year" which was March to March and included 6 weeks of training @ $100/day.

Contrary to popular belief, People don't have to start at the bottom, and if more guys refused to start at companies that pay substandard wages, you would see starting salaries increase. Obviously some people can't afford to pay out of pocket for school, and that is understandable, but these companies should be ashamed of starting guys off at such an absurdly low rate because "we paid for your school". It's nothing more than a cop out to treat a driver like crap imo.

I'd love to meet a recruiter or dispatcher who would work 12 hrs a day for a solid month to "earn" tthe weekend off. Then cap it off with such lovely perks as NO vacation pay, NO holiday pay, and an annual salary of a whopping $35,000.00.

 

.40 Empty, .45 Legal, .50 OD ..Right out of school May of this year, they're out their just gotta turn over few extra rocks to find them..