Not making enough at CREngland

@Chinatown

 

Note that all that talk about what truckers make is for drivers with REAL EXPERIENCE.

Heck, you're just out of the starting gate. You have yet to get true experience to market.

Stay where you are for at least 12 months; in the meantime, you might ask for a different account or different routes.

Also: can you do Lowe's, Home Depot...or Walmart dedicated?

Job hopping for a supposedly better paycheck is hazardous to your CDL career.

-- L

 

Winter and the economy. Large companies only work out for a small majority of lucky drivers. The rest are churned out like dog crap. Read up here and chose a different company. Of course you need to put some time in first.

 

Freight is always heavy in December and always sucks in January, it should start picking back up.

If money is the major focus - tankers is the way to go. Good money now, lots of opportunities later for local jobs.

DO NOT LEASE A TRUCK. I don't care from who, under what terms, it will not work out. At best you'll make company driver money with more stress. At worst you'll end up broke and owing the IRS. If sorting the wheat from the chaff of trucking companies is a struggle for you, you are definitely not ready to own a truck. I'm not trying to insult you, it's just an indication you don't know enough about how the industry works to be successful- yet.

My best advice is to look at companies that have a terminal near your home and then make some phone calls, asking about pay rates and average miles. Just about anyone who pays on a W2 is going to be better than CRE.

 

I’d say stay there for awhile longer. I wouldn’t lease either. Best of Luck

 

Stay where you’re at for the time being, everything is crap out here right now. Ignore the Prime Inc drivers bragging about how much they make leasing, lol. Unless they are willing to show you a couple months of settlements to backup their delusions.

Seriously, imo, going to Prime would be going backwards and your next move would be into a different profession.

When you max out your 70, try taking a 34 instead of running on recaps. Running on recaps may be preventing your dispatcher from giving you longer runs because they know you don’t have the hours to get it done.

 

After you have six months apply to Marten Transport, they are a decent company and only require six months experience. Whatever you do, DO NOT LEASE a truck

 

You beat me to it; Marten Transport! Right again; don't lease a truck!
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One driver posted recently, he went to Marten Transport and made enough money to buy a home for his family.