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if you are getting 3000 to 3700 dame you must have a 100mph truck..just kidding it may be more like 2200 to 2700 a week if you keep you drivers door shut.good luck be safe.

 

Good Luck on the lease thing !!!!

 

If that's coming from a recruiter (most likely it is)... and his mouth is moving... it's a lie. No way in hell are you getting those miles, so please don't count on that. If you follow drivers on this Board, you'll see most avg. maybe 2500 a week... and there are good weeks and bad weeks, breakdowns, etc... When you can... talk to the drivers on here, NOT the recruiters... not ever. Good luck to you.

 

After my second year at TMC I was averaging 27% flatbedding(running 6 month average-revenue,out of route,MPG) in 1995. Most companies were paying Grads betwen .19-21 cents per mile. My 27% worked out to approx: .36 per mile. What were you hauling as a rookie, Rocket fuel for the space shuttle. Yeah they let trainees haul that, NOT.

Some of the drivers here are as bad as recruiters. Everyone has to start somewhere and it might be more important to get on with a company now and worry about a few cents a mile after you have 6 to 9 months under your belt. Just do not blow smoke up some new truckers kiester!

 

I've been told by others on this forum that we (my husband & I) don't get the miles that we do. We get between 5000 to 6000 a week. Now, keep in mind we're a team and we pull for a dedicated W-M grocery fleet. Our miles are solid even when others are nose diving.

The facts are this: as a brand new solo driver right off a mentor's truck you're not normally going to pull a lot of miles. If a recruiter says you will......well......please don't trust it. Depending upon the time of year and the level of freight....you may sit a great deal.

I've told the dispatch order before and here it is again: Team, O/O, Mentor trucks with student on board, solo. So you see....a solo driver is at the bottom of the dispatch.

It can be tough at first. A lot depends upon your fleet, your trip planners and your DM. At first you have a developemental fleet and DM . Frankly I personally believe some of them think their job is to run off drivers. Hopefully you'll get one who thinks their job is to help continue to train new drivers.

Hopefully you'll get on a more active fleet and a fleet with a good fleet manager. Not all are.

If you really wish to figure out how many miles you can pull multiply your 70 hours by 62 miles an hour. THEN know it will never be that much. You have loadings, unloadings, scalings, pulling tandems, rescaling, shipper reworking the load, rescaling (yes the cat scale is my friend lol). You have to pretrip, fuel, there are a thousand things that can eat at your hours and waiting on a customer is one of the biggest. Plus that 62 mph isn't true either...there isn't a highway in the nation not under repair, so you'll be averaging more around 55. When I calculate the time a trip will take me I calculate at 50mph and I'm almost always right on the button.

Frankly I'd like to see the log book and the payroll record of a solo driver at Swift claiming to consistantly pull 3500 miles a week.

I do wish you success, I do recommend Swift as we enjoy working for Swift very much, but I am not one who'll shine you on about miles.

 

6000 miles a week, how much does that make one teammate then?

 

Swift teams acrue miles per truck and then both drivers are paid for all the miles. I probably haven't explained that very well.

 

It dont matter to me, im not going to work there. I just wanted to know how much money that comes out to. Just curious.

People who dont like team driving always come up with the way of saying how theyre paid that makes it sound like theyre getting screwed more. "OMG I GET PAID 10 CENTS A MILE" kinda thing

 

Team pay for a husband/wife team would be pretty simple. The miles i.e. 5000 x the rate say .35 per mile equals $1750. It wouldn't matter who drove what miles because we asume it all goes in the same "kitty" If the "team" were 2 unrelated people it nessary to figure what % of the miles a person drove to figure what % of the $1750 a person would recieve. I think this is an accurate discription of the process.

 

No.

At Swift it doesn't matter if the team is husband/wife, brothers, best friends, son/father or two strangers.

Miles are calculated for the truck. Yes we keep a record of miles we drive but miles paid are for the truck. We each are paid our rate of pay times the total truck miles. We have rates of pay dependent upon length of employment and thus pay can be different. Each driver's pay is paid seperate.

It may very well be different at other companies but I know this is how Swift teams are paid.