Team driving with a lease driver

You new driver, team bottom man pay wise. If the truck is paying .60 to trainer (More likely a four figure salary so cents per mile irrevelant) you get the left overs, maybe 500 gross a week. In my time trainees got 200 to 300 at most. IF they were lucky. Sometimes Ive fed them.

Your first year is the most dangerous time. It is not to hustle "Hard" as you put it. It's to stay out of trouble if that means letting the herd pass you, so be it. So many people are seperated forever from the industry before 90 days for a variety of stupid preventable problems.

 

It's $700 a week in team training. Or 14 cent a mile. Whichever is greater. The way i understand it, that comes out of the trainer's pay.
You won't be doing resets if you get a dispatcher like I had. Keep running recaps until the end of time.

 

If I am not mistaken, a recap is driving a total of 8.75 hours a day every day, then taking your 10 hour break. There is a limit of 70 hours of driving in an 8 day period.
Therefore, a person who drives 8.75 hours a day X 8 days, hits his or her 70 hours, and keeps on going like this every day, for 8.75 hours.
From what I can see in the forum, it works for some drivers, not for all of them. It all depends upon the companies, dispatchers, loads, time schedules, along with other factors concerning the truck driver.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Im sorry, you are not going to max the first year.

Staying out is good etc. Just watch your expenses. Run each trip like a business. If it's 1000 miles at .50 it's a 500 dollar payday, take 30% taxes etc off and 350 remain, spend no more than say 60 for the three days you intend to run it. You don't need three days to do 1000. Boom money in the bank.

Many of the old ones who taught me stayed out almost a year at a time choosing to go home during winter and holidays where there is no money and no real problems fighting ice and snow. That was where we came in.

Dispatchers are your enemy here. They are going to absolutely abuse you fresh meat the first 90 days. Do NOT allow it. You deliver 1200 miles tomorrow morning 6 am. Or I fire you. You say one magic word......

\... "No."

No means no. And you will be ok.

 

You learn to live in the truck. 36 hours? Whoo hoo! Ball game time at the stadium downtown.... at least in Baltimore. Easy. See where Im going? It's YOUR time to use. Live it up. But Horse first saddle second and soldiere (That's you) last.