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Old 07-25-2006, 10:57 AM
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Those morons at Forward Air are full of it , the comapny drivers at Forward Air are with Landair , they advertise in newspapers that they make 70k a year , so full of it , makes me physically ill .

Both companies are owned by the same guy, or was. From the low pay they offer owner operators, I seriously doubt that they would pay their company drivers that much money. At Landair, they only do oil changes every 50,000 miles. If they cannot or won't do proper maintenance on their equipment, they certainly are not going to be willing or able to pay their drivers that much money.
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The only way you would make anywhere close to that kind of money is to be hauling white powder in the trailer. And I'm not talking about flour.
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Most likely it would be pretty tough to make 100 grand a year as a company driver......but it can be done. We have a few of them here.
Not only do they drive they actively recruit. Like most companies we pay drivers 500 bucks for anyone they recruit. So do the math. Say a driver in ohio is making 44 cpm and getting only our average miles, 2700 a week. .44 x 2700 x 52 weeks is 61 grand a year. If he recruited 1.5 drivers a week (yes it could be done easiely for a go getter) that would mean hiring 78 drivers a year....78 drivers x500 = 39,000.
39,000 + 61,000= 100,000 a year.
Now with that said.....Can it be done? Yes.....Is it done? very rarely
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Is it possible? Yes! Is it common? No!
And it's absolutly impossible, with the companys you've mentioned! :sad:
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This kind of reminds me of the movie with jonh candy ( Armed an dangerous) when they are going through new hire orientation , and the Hippe inquires about the pay-scale.....you would have had to see the movie to understand this association , But it fits real nice with what most comanies , and their earning potential promises....
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I know some o/o in the fuel business grossing 200,000 plus...but that's hauling Ethonal. I, myself, haul fuel and ethonal for a local company, and I'm a company driver making about 52,000. Not bad, considering before I worked for them, I was OTR with JB Hunt....glad those days are over, as short as they were. Talk about imposible. :roll:
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Dragging up old threads learning all sorts of info from many in the know, good reading.

That said I am lucky enough to earn well over a 100K a year as a company driver on a dedicated 5 days a week, under 500 miles round trip per day. Surely some will say that's impossible, most likely the sames names that state the excellent living they are making in the industry but you will not if you attempt it. Regardless I consider myself blessed to have my position and it is not typically what the industry pays people to drive a truck.

While not the norm, others I know make the same. Our company has not hired in years and with the influx of new drivers willing to work for peanuts the future may not be as bright, time will tell. Our company is still winning bids on lanes however as others dry up so employment levels have been relatively flat for years.

For the newbies out there reading start turning the wheels to gain some experience and then settle in for more cash once your over the hump!
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I think your stretching the truth a bit driverboy.What are you hauling ?
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The only way you would make anywhere close to that kind of money is to be hauling white powder in the trailer. And I'm not talking about flour.
No, NOT the ONLY way!!! You could make that much money hauling reefers around the country too!!.....ooopps!! diffferent kind of reefer, though!!
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Dragging up old threads learning all sorts of info from many in the know, good reading.

That said I am lucky enough to earn well over a 100K a year as a company driver on a dedicated 5 days a week, under 500 miles round trip per day. Surely some will say that's impossible, most likely the sames names that state the excellent living they are making in the industry but you will not if you attempt it. Regardless I consider myself blessed to have my position and it is not typically what the industry pays people to drive a truck.

While not the norm, others I know make the same. Our company has not hired in years and with the influx of new drivers willing to work for peanuts the future may not be as bright, time will tell. Our company is still winning bids on lanes however as others dry up so employment levels have been relatively flat for years.

For the newbies out there reading start turning the wheels to gain some experience and then settle in for more cash once your over the hump!
Thank you for the laugh!!! I needed it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I call BU%#&@*T !!
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