What is your salary?

[zz4guy]

What do you rookies take in per year? How about you mid-career folks? Lets hear from the niche market professionals as well too.

I'd like to consider trucking one day and would like to know if the take home pay is something I could live with.

[Sealord]

It's hourly or piece rate (CPM) for company drivers. For O/O it's what's left over after all expenses are met. BOL

[zz4guy]

It's hourly or piece rate (CPM) for company drivers. For O/O it's what's left over after all expenses are met. BOL

Yeah I knew that just wondering what it roughly boils down to in yearly figures. They say multiply hourly *2000 to get your yearly rate. Thanks

[Malaki86]

For a rookie driver, figure $0.30 x 100,000 miles per year. That'll give you rough ballpark amount.

Then, from that amount, subtract $100.00 x 52 for living expenses on the road (and that's if you live 'cheap' on the road).

[shahan]

$40,000 the 1st year

[ratchet]

Your going to find that no one will give you their real numbers most will give you real generic answers. I realize there are many variables. As a local driver I get paid by the day. I get $200 a day, 5 days a week, usually only work 10 hours a day but every now and then a little more. So that averages out to $52000 year gross and I have 2 yrs experience. So here is a real answer for you.

[joasis]

There is no hard, fast scale of trucker income....if you are a truck stop cowboy...and making 400 miles a day is your average, you won't live well....if you are an O/O doing 3000 a week hauling OD and specialized, you may trip 225k and up, which explains why you own a beautiful 379 or a W900.......no comparison.

[BIG JEEP on 44's]

assuming you get freight...take your CPM multiply it by 100,000...this is based working for 10 months out of the year in total with an average of around 2500 miles a week with 10,000 miles averaged per month.


To base your salary on much more than 2500 per wk and 10k per month is not realistic, yes you will have weeks where you run more but you will have them where you run less ,so 2500 is a good realistic average ...and running legal... Basing your income on ten months comes from the fact most people want to go home ... I figure 60 non productive days is fair as if you worked local you would usually have a weekend every week it might not be Saturday an Sunday but you would usually have 2 days off per week this comes out to 96 days off per year ...So I think 60 for OTR is conservative ....

[Mackman]

I will make around 45-50k this year driving local. Drive a septic truck(honeydipper) also do bulk hauling alot to. I make 18.74 an hr. With full benefits. All the OT i can handle. OT pay is anything over 8 hrs.

[richey94]

If things continue as they have been then Jeff will make about $46,000 at TMC but he hasn't received his raise yet either.

[Deus]

I hope to make around $55,000 this year, doing local/regional. Been doing this for just over a year now. I was on track to pull down $60,000 until hours got cut.

Not typical at our company for new drivers, but I lucked out!

[GoldiesPlating]

On track to make about $60,000 this year.

[marcel27208]

as so happens i just recieved my quarterly statement from accountant.... i drive local, im an owner operator ive driven 77k paid miles 56% loaded 42% empty and the rest bobtail have grossed 111k, net 63k, so far this year those percentages MT and loaded miles may be off a little, its probably of the 77k ive driven half MT, half loaded

[NascarFan]

I'm on sallery and make $60,000yr

[JBenson2]

Hey, zz4guy,

What is your take-home pay?

[jeremyh]

I just got this job hauling fuel. I'm on pace to make $60,000-$65,000 CAN this year and I have about a year and a half of experience driving truck.

[downriverrob]

YEA ZZ4GUY, WHATS YOUR TAKE HOME PAY HAA???

[Rev.Vassago]

A hunnerd million dollars a week.

[areyouvi3t]

i make bout 90k gross on paper, a company driver and am out 5 days a week but work only 4 (1 day laying over at hotel.) drive bout 2500 miles a week, dedicated run. also, company pays my meals (20.00 a day). the money i make lumping the load is estimated at about 1000.00 a month (250.00 a week) and that's not on paper but in my pocket. company gives us cash every trip. so i guess i make over 100k a year being a company driver...................and i aint the only one, most of us at my company make the same, if not more. the highest anyone from my company made was 130,000 a year. this was last year. i have never had to tap the atm machine at all since i've been with this gig.

[yoopr]

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