Injun, Next spring, will you give us a recap of your trucks financial numbers ?? Gross, net, tax etc........... That would be so helpful to all the new drivers. If you prefer not to, it is totally understandable. Thanks
also lots of extra stop pay. I run an avg of 2800, and on a good week with the right loads in the right area and out of the mountains and hills, I will pocket about $1400, and that is after the extra money that I have taken out. Yes. a solo can make it, and a person also does not have to be a mentor, no matter how much some try and push this, including DM's.
You are exactly correct, one don't have to be a mentor or run team to make it. I started training with the intension that someone trained me so I want to do my part and train someone else, and also payoff my unit faster, I trained a few close to a dozen guys so I think I did my deed and now slowly stop training. Even when I use to train I ran solo about a month between students, and i did pretty good solo. I think its much better running solo. Once the student get on the truck you loose .5cents per mile, the first week to two weeks you will be running solo hrs until student gets 50 hrs btw (behind the wheel). You loose money those two weeks, you are making .5cents less and the student can't run like you (run a lot slower, longer time spent at shipper and consignee, etc.) If the student decide to quit week 3 (most time that's the week you start running team) you loose big time. Now you have to get another student and start over. If the student decide to stay and doing well, loads falling back to back, getting nice long runs you can average $3500 +/- few hundreds weekly (3 weeks) after expenses. Just shinning some light on how training is. You don't have to train to make, and don't. Rely on training t make money because as you see sometimes you will be loosing money. Some people going to quit and say trucking is not for them.
stay a company driver i went owner op worst move ever after all is said and done u are better off u have benifits owners do not we pay our own taxes ect when i was company i made 44 thousand a year as owner after all ded and taxes i maid 48 thousand last year and i grossed 221 thousand dont be fooled stay company the failure rate is very high dont make the same mistake i did
If you grossed $221K and netted $48K, there was a disconnect with expense management. Last week, my gross was $3,053. Of that, I put $245 into a maintenance account and $1,228 into Taiowa's coffers. I do consider the maintenance account to be a liquid asset because I have instant access to it at any time, day or night. So Taiowa gets 1,473 of the gross. That's 48%. You don't pay taxes on gross. You pay taxes on your after expenses revenue. I'll give you 25% for taxes. So, your 48K after taxes net means your personal gross was $64K, which is just below 30% of your stated gross revenue of $221K. What happened to the other 18%?
well im happy to see u are doing well if i had to go thru all my tax records i could find that 18 per u claim i have as u know u have to get a min of 2800 miles to make any money i havent made over 2100 in the last two weeks my point to this man is hes better off being a company man dont lie and tell him only the good things and not the neg things im sure u have atbs like me but if u want to go back and forth on stats we can but im not goin to lie about anything
