Trucking Pay-Numbers don't lie

Per diem is not pay . It's a deduction on expenses and you don't get the whole $59 , I think it's 80% now . If per diem is "paid" by the company you get shafted because guaranteed they show less per diem than you could have claimed at the end of the year yourself . Company per diem is the company taking away from the total amount you will earn for Social Security .

 

well, at an average of 50 MPH, you would log about 36 hours for 1,800 miles. that leaves 3 hours of non driving time. is this for a 3 day work week? if so, these are pretty good numbers. 4 days at home each week would be sweet.

uh, you're the one who mentioned 3 times in one post how your job involves sitting on your butt, so there are no assumptions on my part. you learned how to use your brain to make money? seriously? Bill Gates and Warren Buffet use their brains to make money.

I didn't imply you were lazy. again, YOU were the one bragging about sitting on your butt. and after you bounce around in a truck for a few years, that butt starts getting bigger and bigger and bigger until you're one of those guys who rolls down out of the cab at the truck stop and the air bags on the back reinflate after the 800 lbs driver exits. and if you're in trucking right now, you're probably not even getting the crumbs you mentioned.

 

Swift has 21,000 approx. drivers. If you have a 40% turnover rate you need to hire and complete orientation and trining on 8,400 drivers every year just to break even. That's a lot of CDL grads at $3000-$4000 a pop. We should start our own school. Thats $ 25,200,000-33,600,000 in tuition just for Swift drivers.

 

When a company offers you a job and tells you what all of your duties are it defines "your job". Then they provide a compensation package that explains how you will be compensated for doing "your job". If what you do is included in "your job" then you are being paid for all that you do. The guy at Micky-D doesn't get a separate pay check for sweeping the floor, taking out the trash or scrubbing the grill, even if he was hired to "flip burgers"

 

Look if you think what you do is hard work you have never done a hard days work in your life. How bout you go hang out with the Marines in Afghanistan for a day or two and you will see what hard work is. Then you will understand why i say driving truck is nothing but sitting on your rump. Sure YOU probably get out of your truck at the TS to fuel up and walk ALL THE WAY to the C-store to get your morning jelly donut, but that isnt work as im sure you claim it to be.

You surely wouldnt flap your garbage spewing ### dumpster of a mouth at me in person. So why try to insult me on the web? Are you a cb tough guy too? I bet you are.

Now with that said, I know truck driving can be tough. It's boring, lonely and you are tired all the time. Yet you still have to SIT ON YOUR BUTT to do 90% of the job. So you can take your witty little rebuddle and shove it up your snot nosed little arse. If you got anything more to say to me, see me out on the road......in real life. Jerk.

My point still remains. I can make a better living OTR than I can busting my arse here at home.

Instead of following in the footsteps of Bill Gates or Warren Buffet as you did, I chose to serve my country so pricks like you can feel safe in your sorry little lives. From there I did go to driving school and I did place top of my class. Just as every Marine excels in what they do. No, you dont have to thank me. Instead, thank my brothers who died in combat so you can waste the freedom they died for on your pathetic little existence in this world.

 

I kinda high jacked it...since OLD is from this area. I thought he might have heard.

Yes, trucks are not allowed on that road.

So somebody is looking into a new line of work....soon. You ain't never seen a bill like the one this guy is going to get, for cleaning it up.

Forget the ticket.

Back to our regularly scheduled thread....on broke ### truck drivers.

 

if you think trucking isn't work, then you obviously aren't doing flatbed like I did. I have no desire to go to the middle east and wage war on israel's enemies. that has not accomplished anything other than to waste billions and billions of American taxpayer's money and further the hatred that israel's enemies have for the US.

how do you know what I wouldn't flap?

what's "rebuddle?" I guess you mean "rebuttal." you sure do seem to be full of anger and rage, but not overly literate. being pissed off at the wheel of an 18 wheeler isn't a good idea.

I followed in the footsteps of bill gates and warren buffet? say what? our military waging war against israel's enemies doesn't make me feel the slightest bit safe.

wow, graduating at the top of a truck driving school class is a truly amazing accomplishment. I have no plans to thank you for anything. when our armed forces start defending OUR country again, and not israel, I'll show all the gratitude in the world. but so far, the decades long invasion from the south continues. no one can demonstrate how starting a war with a sovereign nation on the other side of the planet makes me free. in fact, since the "war on terrorism" began under bush II, we have been steadily LOSING our freedoms.

so don't try to come off all high and mighty with me just because you were in the army for a few years, and then came home and started driving a truck. I KNOW the type!! I had a guy just like you that I chauffeured around at my first trucking job (he was NO trainer....) retired military and all he could do when he came back to the real world was drive a truck. he was one of the biggest "arse" holes I've ever met in my life. so, good evening to you, sir. semper fudge.

 

I left Tuesday morning at 3am, and ended my week around 7:30 pm on Friday. So my actual away from home time was closer to 85 hours.

This is an exception....NOT the rule. I was lucky enough to get a load the previous Friday that allowed me to have Monday off We generally leave on Sunday (times vary), and are home on Fridays (times vary).

 

Hey scurvydog, Don't let him get under your skin. He doesn't even drive a truck anymore, He just sits at the computer whining about how bad the business is and how everyone that's in this business is stupid and broke...Except him 'cause he has all the answers! (No job, But all the answers)

I just ignore his posts altogether 'cause he's a "bombthrower" with nothing of real value to contribute.
Just relax and enjoy the info that you'll get from the real drivers on this site and leave the whiners to themselves and their misery.

 

lord have mercy! does everybody come out of the military as bitter and pissed at the world as you? why did you start attacking me and hurling names and insults? why did you bring up your alleged military service any way? what does that have to do with trucking, or anything else? maybe just to brag and browbeat people over the head with it? is that the only reason you were in the service? seems like the wrong reason to me. maybe you didn't get the necessary decontamination process before you came back to civilian life, I don't know. but you seriously need to take a chill people before you pop a blood vessel. if this is what the military does to people these days, I'm GLAD I didn't volunteer to waste 4 years of my life. of course most people who join the military aren't college material and have no other employment options. you show this lack of courtesy and professionalism to shippers, receivers and your boss, and you won't be in that truck very long, young buck.