Starting pay what did you make your first driving?

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  1. HeatherRose

    HeatherRose Bobtail Member

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    Remember the goofy show in the mid 70's "BJ &The Bear"?
    What was his saying? Oh ya that's right,
    "A dollar a mile, anything, anywhere no questions asked."
    So O/O's what are you making today, forty years later?
     
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  3. fireba11

    fireba11 Heavy Load Member

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    it was a buck fifty a mile no questions asked...lol
     
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  4. Blanche

    Blanche Medium Load Member

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    34 cpm. Hoffman Trans. Chickasha Oklahoma
     
  5. desperado75

    desperado75 Medium Load Member

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    i started with DTI in 1996 i got $350 a week for training and .21cpm solo. was there only 6 months before they got bought by swift.
     
  6. desperado75

    desperado75 Medium Load Member

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    i was pre hired by them in 96 didn't go with them but got the same pay with DTI
     
  7. desperado75

    desperado75 Medium Load Member

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    i was pre hired by them in 96 didn't go with them but got the same pay with DTI
     
  8. desperado75

    desperado75 Medium Load Member

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    a dirty stand up comedian lol
     
  9. BossOutlaw88

    BossOutlaw88 Road Train Member

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    In December of 2011, I started with Werner for $0.265/mile plus tuition reimbursement.

    Using my Dre Beats machine
     
  10. aiwiron

    aiwiron Road Train Member

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    1975 hauling coal for tonnage, my pay was .17 cents a ton. Onsite and no D/L but hey it paid.
     
  11. Larryparker

    Larryparker Medium Load Member

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    Just to add my two cents, no make that seven, my first OTR job I received .075cents per mile, thats 7 and a half cents. That was in 1976.
     
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