Starting pay what did you make your first driving?

13 1/2 cpm for company drivers average 1.59 per mile swinging meat to LA. 2300.00 from salinas calf to hopkins minn. average. payed my drivers 16 cpm in 1969. truck payments $350 month, trailer payments 125.00 per month, fuel about 20-35 cents a gallon. was fairly easy to make money back then. my buddy use to tell me he drove around and made money by accident. see some thing in trucking have changed for the better in trucking. lots of luck

 

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THAT is hillarious! I was at U.S when they bought Victory, PST and JTI.

 

.14 cents per mile , condo freight shaker cab over running team , and no jake. #### I kinda miss those days people were much cooler back then.

 

How did you get permits to run 105ft on a 48ft trailer? My rusty math says thats an overhang of 57ft?

 

.175 for swift with 2 or 3 logbooks running flatbed. I make the same now as I did then but everything else has gone up

 

.075cpm at Midwestern Distrubtion around 1978, just before I gave them my $1 to lease the truck.(first and last lease)Flattop,single bunk Cabover freightliner, NO AC,Power steering, No TV. The 290 Cummings was so weak it couldnt run over its own shadow, yea, those were the days.

 

That's because that story was a lie...

 

Back in 1978 when i got out of the diesel academy i got lucky with a union otr company hauling car parts, pay was 27% of gross to the truck, came out low to mid 30 cents a mile bracket. but some clown from a wisconsin based company called Ellsworth Trucking came to the diesel academy and would hire anybody at 6 cents a mile hauling swingin' beef out to nyc from wisconsin.and run around 3,000 miles a week, needless to say, he was the laughing stock at the academy.

 

Right at $5500 - $6000 a year,

back in the mid 1960's.


Yes,

that IS before taxes !!