Starting pay what did you make your first driving?

I've seen many trucks loaded like that out west, mostly long wheel base cab overs.

 

I started with Covenant at .42 split and .28 solo in Feb 2000.

 

25 cpm at Werner,I don't think the startng pay has changed has it?I'll look one of these days and see what Werner starts their solo drivers at.Truckng is the lowest paying carreer out there and the way some gve raises is a huge slap in the face.

 

First paying driving job was in 2001 with a medical waste company, went to about 45 offices a day including coroners, hospitals, dentist ect ect, all in downtown Chicago. Had a 40' GMC COE straight truck, paid $12 hour.

First CDL job was as an O/O pulling Wal-Mart freight with Schneider out of Garrett, IN D.C. for $.90cpm

Before the MW job, i drove a wrecker and worked for Peterbilt also at the same time. Wrecker paid 30% of all tow charges and Peterbilt paid $10 hour as an apprentice (even tho I did all the dang work just like the "Union" mechs)

 

Started driving tractor-trailers hauling grain without a CDL and pulling upto 106,000lbs here by the house. First CDL job was hauling Septic Waste for $9 per hour and then pay went up depending how good you done your job? Yes I know its crap not alot you can mess up.

 

back in 1986 i was driving a 1973 mack DM600 with a twin stick and no AC. Before that I drove a 60's vintage ford dump truck for a marine construction company.

 

Started driving when they invented the Wheel, ran with a Caveman. Pay was Peanuts.

 

.25 a mile in 98 with Burlington motor carriers

 

I got to keep any chickens that escaped off the truck, but I had to ride in the back of the airliner.

 

I didn't get into that yard often. Wasn't it in Lavergne not far from the old 76 ts?