How much per hour?

[jonp]

After 4 months on this account I figure I'm making about $16.50/hr. How much are you guys and gals making?

[Malaki86]

24.5% of whatever the load pays.

[jonp]

24.5% of whatever the load pays.

Ever stop and figure out what that comes up to on an hourly basis?

[Malaki86]

Nope - if I did, I'd probably want to put a gun in my mouth.

[Scoe]

Well, since everyone is paid differently at my employer and we are strictly prohibited from discussing each others wages, I can only speculate that one driver at my company with over 20 years of class A experience is making $20.64 and hour and $30.96 after 40 hours. That's just speculation though, and there's no way that I am that driver.

This driver usually averages about 50 hours a week too. All local work and home daily. But without a subpoena there is no way I could tell you who he is.

[jonp]

funny that with all of the drivers on this forum no-one has taken the time to figure out what they actually make per hour.

[Snowman7]

Jon they just dont want to look at it that way. They block it out.

That secret driver is doing pretty well Scoe.

We're all paid the same so its no secret.

57.75 cpm when driving, 22.85/hr when on duty not driving. My current run is about 45 hrs/week, 1390 miles, and grosses around $1300.

The longest run at my barn is around 60 hrs/week, 2780 miles, and grosses around $1900.

All our runs are night runs and home every day. M-F

But the bad part is I have to pay union dues so I know most of you wouldnt want it!

You know what really blows my mind? It's a very good job, a desireable job, and yet we still have miserable whiners who are never happy.

[Mackman]

18/hr OT after 40

[Mackman]

Jon they just dont want to look at it that way. They block it out.

So ture when i ran dry bulk i was paid by the ton. Worked around 65hrs a week for 700 gross. When i quit they wanted to know why?? I told them i avg. around 10/hr. Guess what they said to me. You cant look at it that way. lol the hell i cant

[CaliTrucker]

$17.50/hr. OT after 8 hrs a day and 2x after 12

[Mackman]

$17.50/hr. OT after 8 hrs a day and 2x after 12

2x after 12 WTF i need to talk to mny boss.

[belpre122]

18/hr OT after 40

I'm calling total BS on this one. This username has definitely been hijacked. I hope that the moderators look in to this soon. As we all know.........

.........that MACKPUPPY won't turn a wheel for anything but good old CPM!
More precisely 25CPM!!

It's a lifestyle!

[cdswans]

Jon they just don't want to look at it that way. They block it out.

How true, how true.

At the risk of being called a hypocrite, all things considered, I can't complain. I truly enjoy what I do. That doesn't mean I think I'm being paid fairly or what my services are worth but only that my personal circumstances make my CPM situation more palatable. I have no regular home, no steady squeeze and a guaranteed comfortable retirement that I can neither touch nor screw up until I'm 60. (My father was a very smart ahole.) If I don't see 60, I have 7 siblings that will live that much better, so I'm out here running around where they can't find me. In all of my working life I have never enjoyed as much time off as I do now and I take it in places I never imagined I'd be. I lived in Maine for 46 years and don't need to get back every 2-3 weeks. So far this year, I've been back 5 or 6 times, 2-5 days at a time with 3 typical.

If I had home and family obligations like the American Dream anticipated, I certainly wouldn't and couldn't do it out here.

I generally don't cheat on my logs. The lone exception is some waiting time which, if viewed through different eyes, could be construed as working time but I log as "recreational" time because I don't want to consume my 70 unnecessarily and I usually spend it on personal pursuits, like this. Realistically, I make $16/hr for logged hours + decent benefits. As for my block out and denial, I'm away from home 168 hours a week, average $1000/week and therefor earn about $5.95 an hour.

As far as what I'm worth? I think I (we) should be compensated from the moment we get off "home-time" until the moment we get back on, including sleep (security) time, and our home-time should be based on similar guidelines to the other sectors under the umbrella of the DOT . . merchant marine, aviation and railroad. I actually figured out the dollar value and posted it in another thread. I'm not going to do it now but it worked out to be in the high 80's. I sincerely believe that the difference between what I make and what I should make could be substantially absorbed with minimal impact to consumers if my company was simply forced by economics to run my truck more efficiently.

[Mr. Ford95]

$17.50 per hour, no OT allowed currently. If you have OT coming your sent home early.

[CaliTrucker]

2x after 12 WTF i need to talk to mny boss.

Problem is I haven't seen a 12 hour day in about 2 years...Hell I've only had 2 weeks so far this year at or above 40 hours

[GMAN]

It can take a little more effort to calculate your hourly pay when you work otr. You need to take off that time where you are waiting or taking a shower or going to the bathroom. And then there is the time you spend eating or playing video games. If you want to accurately calculate your pay by the hour then you should only include that time where you are actually working.

[Malaki86]

Do you calculate that based on your actual working hours + driving before or after making log adjustments?

[jd112488]

who care what you make or why do you care what i make. i love my job. i pay my bills and do what i want when i want. why not be happy instead of looking for that thing in life to make you miserable.

[Fredog]

doesnt matter how much you make per hour, per mile or percentage, what matters is what you put in the bank on payday

[Snowman7]

How true, how true.

At the risk of being called a hypocrite, all things considered, I can't complain. I truly enjoy what I do. That doesn't mean I think I'm being paid fairly or what my services are worth but only that my personal circumstances make my CPM situation more palatable. I have no regular home, no steady squeeze and a guaranteed comfortable retirement that I can neither touch nor screw up until I'm 60. (My father was a very smart ahole.) If I don't see 60, I have 7 siblings that will live that much better, so I'm out here running around where they can't find me. In all of my working life I have never enjoyed as much time off as I do now and I take it in places I never imagined I'd be. I lived in Maine for 46 years and don't need to get back every 2-3 weeks. So far this year, I've been back 5 or 6 times, 2-5 days at a time with 3 typical.

If I had home and family obligations like the American Dream anticipated, I certainly wouldn't and couldn't do it out here.

I generally don't cheat on my logs. The lone exception is some waiting time which, if viewed through different eyes, could be construed as working time but I log as "recreational" time because I don't want to consume my 70 unnecessarily and I usually spend it on personal pursuits, like this. Realistically, I make $16/hr for logged hours + decent benefits. As for my block out and denial, I'm away from home 168 hours a week, average $1000/week and therefor earn about $5.95 an hour.

As far as what I'm worth? I think I (we) should be compensated from the moment we get off "home-time" until the moment we get back on, including sleep (security) time, and our home-time should be based on similar guidelines to the other sectors under the umbrella of the DOT . . merchant marine, aviation and railroad. I actually figured out the dollar value and posted it in another thread. I'm not going to do it now but it worked out to be in the high 80's. I sincerely believe that the difference between what I make and what I should make could be substantially absorbed with minimal impact to consumers if my company was simply forced by economics to run my truck more efficiently.

CD I agree completely with your take on things. You should be paid more, and I completely understand how you could enjoy your job. I like your comparison to other fields like merchant marine and railroad. Seems all three of these fields should be compensated more closely. They all require specialized training, carry great amounts of responsibility to the general public, and place alot of burden and stress on a family or individual with the constant time away from home.