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Originally Posted by Douglas
On average, about how much money can a person driving OTR expect to bring home every week? (after taxes)
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Right now at my city job I bring home about $616 every 2 weeks; it would be $313 a week if we got payed every week. I'm sure OTR would pay better than that, unless I had a really bad week and hardly got a load delivered.
depends on the company when I started with Werner and was on 11 western back in early 2005 I was only making 15cpm unloaded and 21 loaded ,and because the dead head was only 15 CPM i usually onl;y averaged 18-19 CPM , so i was only making 350-400 take home even if i got 2800-3000 miles ,and i usually did not so I had many 250 dollar net pay checks .
As an OTR 48 state driver at Werner i made 2200-2500 miles a week at 26 CPM so I only made between 550-650 gross and a take home net of about 450-525... At other companies you will probably do better however I only have knowledge of Werner ...AND THEY SUCK ...So it's possibly you could drive OTR and either make exactly what are now or just slightly more with a starter company unil you get atleast a minimum of 1 year OTR ,But i wouldn't say it's a sure shot you are going to be banking much more than now ,and then you have all the trade offs of living OTR that make the money even more laughable .