Year One Reality

From those you listed, I would pick TMC first & Navajo 2nd.

Don't overlook Melton Truck Lines; they hire newbies & have $40.00 tarp pay. Melton Truck Lines would be my first choice. My 2nd choice would be System Transport.

Also, think about getting your tanker/hazmat endorsements for the $65K + per year jobs. Quality Carriers hires new drivers for those jobs and several other companies do also. One driver just posted that new CDL drivers at Superior-Carriers take home $800 - $1000 per week.

I made avg. $65K per year doing OTR tanker/hazmat.

 

Gotta get that first year in before the money goes up.

 

Here is the question. Why do you need to walk the HOS line? Are you talkin about running Paper logs and falsing them? Cuz i dont run paper logs and i still get around 3k+ miles a week. You don't see many of our trucks sitting in truck stops though But pay your dues...

Where do you live(state)? How hard do you wanna work? How long do you wanna stay out?
Also on side note i feel sorry when im pulling into truck stops on weekend and see everyone sitting..

 

I drive for Tyson foods . I've only cheated last week while truck was broke down got a rental truck. So I was on paper logs lol. But here on elogs you got no need too. I haven't had a check under 800 highest 1300

 

I averaged $750 a week take home my first year. ANd I was not getting huge weekly miles.

Mikeeee

 

An excellent Driver Trainer can make or break you as a newbie. The truck driving school show how to pass the test so you receive your CDL. A Driver Trainer teaches how to make the money with your CDL.

 

Good joke. Everybody wants to start at the top now days. I see it all the time and its pathetic. Why would we want to work our way up? With the way the op talks he probably on top of wanting higher pay wants a brand spanking new truck with a t.v. refrig, GPS, cb, all the bells and whistles. Hell after a year (and I won my own truck). I went from a 2006 that was really nice to a 2000 that will pull like a locomotive, but has no fridge, no ac, bunk fan is on High all the time, doesn't turn worth crap, and needs a lot of work. But hey I look at it as working my way up. In if I want stacks, ac, a new paint job etc etc I gotta go out and work my butt off. That's how it works. But the paying your dues doesn't apply anymore sadly. Especially with the younger generation they wanna start out as a manager for the pay before they know anything about the company they're working for. Pathetic imo guess I was raised differently than that.

 

When I train a new driver I work with them to perfect their skills sure. But tell them I'm here to show how to make a living and how to live out on the road. Every driver I trained had never been out on the road before in their and only a handful of them even knew someone who was an OTR truck driver. Its a enormous culture shock for all of them. OTR truck driving is a very emotional and physical tough job beyond your wildest imagination. It is rated as one the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America every year. It has one of highest divorce rate of all the occupations in the country. It has one of the highest suicide rates of any occupation. You confined to a small space for long periods time and at best you are only home on the weekends making very hard to maintain relationships with family and friends. If your lucky you will work OTR for 2 years and find a nice local driving job that pay well and allows you to be home every night and have weekends off too.