So are all those Internet Video Right? About what you get paid??

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  1. LeavinHome2018

    LeavinHome2018 Light Load Member

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    Or is it that some people just don't except that the first 6 months are really gonna suck and then
    maybe with a good attitude you'll get more work especially if not worried about getting home?

    Alsp wonderng about dirty tricks like overloading you and not telling you about it.... or making you do work you don't have to do at all. or Paying "Lumpers" just to get unloaded...or you sit for hours waiting???

    BUT REALLY????? IS the pay really that bad??? 25,000 a year take home?
    thats a lot of responsibility for such little pay?????
     
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    Expect 25-35 k a year for 70 hrs a week.
     
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    You always check your weight if you don’t know. Never leave without knowing what you weigh. This first few months can be rough money wise, but it gets way better.
     
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    does it get better........granted I'm a good worker with few if any mistakes??????
     
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    Yes it does. I’m somewhere in the middle and make 70-72k a year. Lots of people make more than I do, but I’m home every night and have amazing benefits and 401k with company match, and a nice truck to drive. It all depends on what fits your lifestyle. You could come here brand new out of school and learn to haul logs and make 60-65 your first year
     
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    I can't afford the time to go to school and need to get going within next 4 weeks just broke and desperate
    will have to settle for a Company paid CDL deal... sucks but whatever just trying to line things up for now
    i don't have a place to live just in my car half the time and in a friends warehouse i shower at the gym...anyways could be worse... I've got a good record just waiting for some paper work to come in I've been self employed for the last 25 years so my paper work is needed to apply..... i guess....
     
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    What company? do they have a CDL sponsored program and need people with clean records.... ill move there, really i don't party and or use drugs and my driving records really good ,,
     
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    well maybe ill look into the "WIOA" thing and see if they can get me going,,,,but seeings how its government i can't see them giving tuition money all that quick for the situation I'm in.....Everything in the Federal government takes for ever...
    i need to get going as soon i can get my paper work.....sucks being in this situation.

    Ill still check with the "WIOA" on monday though
     
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    No program to get a Cdl here. Honestly in your position, I’d go to a company that will get you one. Doesn’t sound like you have many income needs and using the truck as your house would work well for OTR
     
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    do you think a place like yours would hire someone like me with a years experience , once i go threw hell of one year of name your meat grinder Cdl sponsered company?