Wondering

Nope

 

I got the op beat run otr for 2 weeks until friday night usually than told to drive 330 miles home in my vehicle than be back to work Sunday night.

 

Do the numbers.

 

8 hour day 152 dollars at 19 hourly until 40 hours. Then time and half for 30 on your 70 total.

Mileage pay is too low. Needs to be 30 cents more, this is not 2002. My pay was higher than that 0.42 then. Closer to .50

Also if anything happens in the night you cannot put away the miles or stay awake or sleep well by day.

Take the hourly. The nightly 500 is not worth it. You did not indicate what job you will be doing hourly.

 

Do it untill rates and loads Improve, and then move on!

 

It only has to seem worth it to one driver.
Cost of living in some places is low enough it might work.

 

my last dedicated job (that i retired from earlier this year), i ran close to 310 miles round trip, 5 nights each week, 5 stops with pickups at each stop, done (depending on weather) 8.5 to 9.0 hours, on salary, just over 48 hours off duty. but i was not a slow worker, i hustled at each stop.

take home pay was about $1,200 after taxes....

so at (say even 8.5 hours) at (say) 42.5 hours was about $35.00 per hour.

as to your 500 mile round trip, you are grossing LESS than i was....about $1080

you would be taking home roughly $780 a week after taxes.(depending on your tax base, i was using at least 25% take out for taxes)

i'd stay home for that...