What is the expected pay for 11 months experience

Weekly net varies for every person. My average weekly net is only $600-$700 but my gross is about $1300-$1400. Gross is the only figure that matters everybody has a different tax and benefits situation

 

How are you being taxed half your income?

 

He could pay child support, maybe his company’s insurance isn’t cheap maybe he puts most his money away in a 401k... could be anything.

 

Yup!!! Local blows BIG TIME!Driving around Chicagoland ain't no fun,it pays less than OTR and I can't imagine commuting to work every freaking day!
Oh and them local drivers,they ain't no truckers imo-)

 

Interesting, most otr guys would kill for a soft cushy local gig doing drop and hook for 500 miles a day.

 

Good point

 

I’m the opposite. I can’t imagine working 70 hours a week day in and day out and living in a truck. I’ll gladly sit in traffic 45 minutes for my 4 mile commute to work.

I’ll only work 50 hours a week tops. Preferably 45 most weeks so I get a couple hours ot before the taxes are too high.

Still gonna gross 60k+ So I don’t see any reason to live in a truck for 80k if that...

 

Isn't it great that there's such diversity in trucking jobs? Even OTR has different meaning to different people.My OTR is weekends home unless I don't feel like going home.

 

Dry van isn't where the money is.

 

Yeah that’s why I like it, I used to haul dead animals 80 hours a week when I first started driving truck. Then realized I didn’t want to hate my life anymore so I met a nice guy who owns a fuel company with a couple trucks and never looked back. None of us want to work 70 hours a week so he doesn’t make us and will just hire another driver when we start working too much for our liking.

To each his own. I like running 700 mile days here and there and sleeping in my truck once a month, that’s fun since I don’t do it daily... my sleeper is just to look cool most the time. Lol