Pay

what's high about those numbers? Pretty low IMO

 

I know as a new driver one mistake I made was taking all the time they gave me to deliver a load. As soon as I started acting like my pants were on fire, and showing up early for deliveries (many will let you drop even a day early, plus we had empties at many of our customers) it made a huge difference. I was able in some cases to get off another short load a week.......making a big difference in pay, when your in thet $500-$600 range (under .30 a mile). It does another thing, it gets you used to running this way, so when you start getting more per mile........your checks can be $200 more then the average driver.

 

I've only been out here a little over 3 months but I take home $700-$1000 a week. This past week I grossed a little over $1500.




American Trucker

 

I'm just a company driver, I drive between 3000 and 4300 miles a week OR if im doing ltl runs between 2000 and 2900 miles a week with $20/stop


Theres plenty of money to be made in the trucking industry, you just have to go out and find it, and when you find it RUN WITH IT!!!!





American Trucker

 

Trucking pay is one of my favorite topics by far..

This year I'll make $942 a week gross and don't want a penny more. I'm doing an 8 and the gate shift where I'm not even driving anymore - running a yard truck.

When you factor in that I had three pay stubs from last year running line-haul run over into 2011 and will unfortunately end up working a little over-time this year, I'll probably be right around 55K which is 32K less than 2010 even though our mileage and hourly pay were bumped up as of 1/01/2011 and I've never been happier..

There's more to it than that though - considering I work 8 and skate with a set start time, a 10 minute commute each way, and no unpaid time other than a half hour lunch it's probably better than it sounds.

I like to get there about 10 minutes early so even factoring commute and lunch time I'm spending 9 total hours per day M-F away from home for work and I'm done at 2:30 in the afternoon daily.. Gone for the year are the days of grossing $1800 for running 2100 miles and a few hours on the clock nightly but it is what it is..

I have a good amount of time in at a quality LTL company so I can set my own hours, job description, and income every year based off my own priorities that year.. Not too bad of a position to be in.. Not bad at all..

 

good for you, we already know this, you've anounced this before......





American Trucker

 

At our 2011 pay rate and the 70 hour book, we have probably 20-25 line-haul drivers at my terminal that will make 100K, another 10-15 that will break 90K, another 20-25 that will break 80K, and the rest will be in the 70's.. I'm taking a year or two off but in 12 or 13 I'll be one of the 100K drivers probably gunning for 110 or 120 depending on the year and pay rate at that time..

I won't work for less than $942 per week this year (hopefully I won't make a cent more either) but if I'm behind the wheel nightly $1500 is the bare minimum.. You get where I'm coming from man..

 

I understand that you're being facetious, but I won't quit announcing it because it could help a few people who were in the same shoes I was 9 years ago smell the roses a little bit..

I privately do as much as I can possibly do to help younger drivers in their early 20's land the good driving jobs if that's what they really wanna do..

I do see that at the age of 21 you have it all figured out running hard and such so just do what you do man - just don't burn yourself out or get in trouble with those logs man.. Best of luck to you..