What is the REAL average first year income for a new driver

One company DM Bowman in Frederick dealt with a 4 day fiasco when a alternator failed one morning, I made it to the navy base on battery, until the batteries died. I knew something was off on the alternator after having been off work 3 days prior to that morning being sick. That alternator was showing 13.4 volts on battery rather than a healthy 14.5 during cranking.

Anyway. overnight in a hotel while they fixed THAT problem. Collect truck that afternoon. Make it to Doswell Petro. Go to dinner at 6PM. Compressor quits locking all brakes during dinner. (Love that...)

Tow truck show up with spare tractor at 4 am. swap. Back to bed. Get going in the morning.

Truck turned out to be a shop queen junker with a totaled front end. Pulled over 1 mile after leaving petro. Sit there 3 hours until other company trucks stopped and provided communciations etc. A third tow truck came down with a beast of a day cab for me to run under special command from officers in management. I get back to yard.

Day 4 a one way converstation from me to boss resulted in just about a entire week paid day and night at 10.00 per hour flat which comes out to 700 plus gross, sick pay added for three days flat and then one trip to navy base norfolk. all of which turned into a rather hefty check of almost a thousand net for my trouble. Bosses have one way converstation with the revelant shop crew. And next morning I had a virgin mack daycab waiting in my spot with a new set of keys. Forget the pay lol...

 

It's interesting how; These government agencies insist on taking data in a form that is not comprehensive. Then publish it in a different form completely. Your example.... taking in only per hour. Then publishing in yearly income. ... Doh!

They could easily take in a $70k/yr truckers income. Converting that to hourly. Lets say honestly about 65 hours a week driving. Anything over 40 hours is time and a half. So that comes out to $17.36 an hour. .... They convert that back to yearly income. Ignoring actual hours or overtime. It comes to; $36K per year. ..... Doh!

 

If you can fit everything but your bed in the truck, sell the bed and cancel your lease. Cut all expenses but your phone. Now you make what you did before.

If I was doing this only for money I would have quit the first month.

 

I am not a complete newbie to driving, but I am to otr .I just started otr almost exactly 1 month ago and I have already grossed just over 4 grand... Buy here's the kicker in that month I have been home for like 12 days because I chose to be home for family events.

No I don't drive for a mega, and I never will. I work for a smaller family owned company in Idaho. I just got a raise from 35 cpm to 37 cpm...plus I can make the 37 cpm go up to as high as 42 cpm if I want to run hard (for every 1k miles over 10k in a calender month my pay goes up 1 cpm, with a limit of an extra 5 cpm.)

Once the holidays pass I'm going to really turn and burn to make some real $$$.

So there is pretty decent money to be made if you want to run hard for the right company.

 

You grossed 4K in less than 3 weeks? What are you pulling?

 

Waccamaw in NC approved my application as a rookie to haul gas, but they were low 40s to start. Home daily and weekends off was something to consider. I went with the higher pay running for Superior.

 

@35cpm nonetheless. Oversized load of Bull$heet would be my guess.

 

I made over 70k my first year. I don't work for peanuts. I drive because I love doing it. If you don't, no amount of money will be worth it.

I don't work for peanuts. I don't even work. I'm a driver and I'm vastly overpaid for what I do.