Starting pay what did you make your first driving?

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  1. Emulsified

    Emulsified Road Train Member

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    $3.52 per hour and 0.02 per mile. After finishing training (one year) I had graduated up to $6.92 per hr and 0.02 per mile.
    Averaged about 1800 miles per week (lot of driving on old US 30 before I-80N, later I-84).
    That was a teamster job and the money was so good, I bought my first house for $23,000...considered WAY too much. (Sold that house three years ago for $490,000).
     
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    $100 a day to train, after that .43 loaded and .35 or .36 empty. $14ish on the hour. I can't pull my checks up before we got a 3.5% raise last October so I can't remember the exact numbers. I'm sure there's some mathematical formula I could use, but I'm far too lazy for all of that.
     
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    Now.....you talking civvie, or military? Cuz I have a shock for some if it's on the military side....
     
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    You're Canadian. Beaver skins and maple syrup don't count as pay...
     
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    HAHAHA!!!! Yeah, well......be careful about the "beaver skin" comment......chasing "beaver skin" is one of our national pasttimes!!! ROFL!!
     
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    .22 per mile in 1998 at Schneider. Then they put me on dedicated Sears in Manteno,Il at $101 a day home every day. Once Christmas passed they put me back OTR and I quit because I would make less on the road than being home every day. Left and went to US Xpress at .30 per mile.
     
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    48Packard Ol' Two-stop Shag!

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    CRE, 1996. .20 per mile and all the heartache I could handle.
     
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    Sad thing is they don't pay much more starting now, and cost of living has certainly went up quite a bit since then......
     
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    .21 when I started with Burlington in 96.
     
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    .185 cpm at Schneider in 1991, then I quit and went to Builders Transport making big money .21 cpm.......LOL
     
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