Starting pay what did you make your first driving?

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  1. HeatherRose

    HeatherRose Bobtail Member

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    I started driving in Oct. '81, running team up and down the eastern seaboard for an owner-op out of Ct, .for $15 a week :) I was 16 years old and my Daddy was 1st seat. I droev at night and he drove during the day, till I joined the Navy. When I got out, I got a job driving flat bed for a pile driving crane operation. I made $7 an hour. Before I got out of trucking, I was an owner-op skate boarder. My tractor was a 220" wheelbase, cab-over International with a self-loader boom mounted to the chassis. I specialized in coast to coast transport of utility poles up to 105' long on a 48' composite spread axle. I averaged between $2 and $4 dollars a mile.
     
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    2001Lisa Motor Lines. .25cpm. Ran me like a dog. And you know what, kinda miss it. Lol
     
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    9.19hr, 4yrs to mature to 16.75hr in 89'
     
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    .22 for J B Hunt in 1994.
     
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    25% of gross to the truck. Started about 6 months ago, averaging a little better than $0.50/mile.
     
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    $.25/mile hauling for Arrow Trucking Co out of Tulsa, OK (Van Division) in 1998. And from what I see, pay hasn't actually changed all that much in the intervening 14 years.
     
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    .24 per mile pulling a flatbed for CT in 1995. My first check was around $450.00. Heck, on a bad week, I'm not far from 450 now!
     
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    Driver/Salesman for pepsi-americas in 2005. 100/day in base salary plus .14/case comission. Averaged about 800/week, gross.
     
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