Raise your hand if you make $73k

Who do y'all work for?

 

ok....is that 70-80K you guys are making CONSISTENT every year of is that just THIS YEAR, as in it may be less next year? Not slamming anyone. It's taken me 4 years to FINALLY claim right at to over 50K and I got all of my endorsements and gonna move on to something outside of 'General Freight'! Once again, just curious....as we all know you live and learn not learn and KNOW IT ALL....like alot of drivers we've ALL run into! lol

 

Well since you know me lol.....

You know mine will still go up from where I'm at for a couple of years still.

 

Ashley furniture

 

I've been consisteny there for the last 8 or 9 years. The theme you'll see if you look at the companies that actually pay well is that there's a lot more than just mileage pay. I get paid for every stop and average $400 a week in picks and drops. If you add in paid holidays and personal time you'll see it start to add up nicely.

 

I did 73k last year. I don't run local, don't want to. I don't pull a reefer or dry box. Unless you get into something specialized in this business your not gonna make that. To many drivers get into this thinking they are going to get rich! Not gonna happen!

 

I'm at 67.6 doing dry van for Conway truckload, I started training here and I think that will bring me well over 75.

That said I don't take a lot of hometime, but I feel like if I were doing Chem tanker, reefer or flatbed I'd make more

 

That's the key to good numbers. My mileage rate isn't bad but it's no more than some top tier common carriers are paying.

Add in the supplementals though.....d/h pay, live load/unload pay, paid holidays, additional stop pay, extra paid time on a case by case if anything out of the ordinary day to day job description has to be dealt with, layover, reimbursement for parking, scales, anything out of pocket ect ect

In the rare event we reset on the road they pay 2 layovers and will reimburse for a hotel.

A good supplemental package will push the pay rate up far and quickly.

 

I do. More than that. But, (here comes the caveat) -- I live out of my truck with my wife and dog, never go home, and run my *** off. O/O, paper logs, wife is almost finished with an accounting degree and works as my "everything-that-isn't-actually-driving-the-truck" person. Also, my truck rarely goes to a dealership, most repairs I perform myself if I can. Can you make that much? Sure. But any of you experienced drivers know it simply isn't worth it. Most of you guys have a family and home life and plenty of valid reasons to NOT run like a madman.

Realistically speaking, I made more "valuable" income with JB Hunt locally. Home every night, 12 hour days, 5 days a week, about 900-1000 a week before taxes. In my mind, 40-50k a year is a much more reasonable number.

 

I'll finish the year at around 57k. But I'm lazy, I sleep in my king size bed at home. 12- 13 hour days 5 days a week, running approximately 2000 miles on a busy week. Could I do better elsewhere? Yeah, but I love what I do and I generally don't have to deal with too many people. I run at night, so there's no one in the office to bother me, generally nobody around the places I deliver to, so I really only deal with the shippers, which most are easy to get along with.