Adding new drivers to the already overfilled job pool
#112
08-10-2009, 03:59 AM
I see the $40,000-$60,000 number all over. How do new truck drivers with no experience make that kind of money? Don't most companies start new drivers out at around $0.25/mi?
@ $0.25/mi new drivers would have to run 3076 mi/week (52 weeks a year) to make $40,000.00, and 4615 mi/week to make $60,000.00. Does that ever happen? New drivers never make the full rate the first few weeks they are out because they are usually with a trainer. Sadly, I've not heard ANY reports from my fellow students at Alliance since graduation, and haven't seen a single soul with whom I went to Werner orientation with since then. Oh well...
#113
08-10-2009, 04:07 AM
On a 6/2 Schedule i'm in the running to bring home 39,000 my first year.. That includes Stop pay and so on.. I don't see how a True OTR first year Driver Makes It.. I seriously don't
#114
08-10-2009, 08:01 AM
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If you're like me and aren't tied down to any of those responsibilities, then anything above $20,000/year is healthy. It all depends on how you spend your money.
#115
08-10-2009, 08:25 AM
#116
08-14-2009, 02:00 AM
I actualy know of few people that believed this and went on to driving school, one bought a truck and is working for TRI STATE doing some 1.05pm...
Even though i tell people not to get in this buisness they still wont listen until it comes time to ,,push that shovel in'', then they will find out.... I am paying off my house at the end of the year with a year left on a truck note, after that ill be getting out as soon as possible as i see things getting worse day by day...... Cruise by night, fish by day...:bow:
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#117
08-14-2009, 02:03 AM
Actually, I've had 4 different offers from towing companies to work for them. Believe it or not, it works out better than driving truck. And, no log book. But, you don't get any more sleep than you do now.
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#118
08-14-2009, 10:58 AM
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i made that last year at swift.....as a solo driver. yeah, it's possible. fortunately for myself, you, and like bentstrider, we don't really have any attachments. unfortunately though, i had very little to show for it. i paid off the $15,000 medical bill that i had incurred some years back after a biking accident.
Apparently, these were all former drivers, one being a laid-off local, the other two being former locals who didn't want to go OTR. They were all trying to get into the correctional training program this place offers and I wished 'em luck. But, at the same time, I chuckled due to why they obviously didn't want to go OTR. As for private vocationals of that caliber, those seem to be a ripoff just in the same vein that some trucking schools are when it comes to job placement. Since they own cars, they should save the money and drive the extra 30 down to the community college in San Bernardino that's $26/unit and offers an equal amount of vocational ed. alongside traditional academia.
#119
08-15-2009, 01:22 AM
I hear ya, 39k ain't bad, my first year was in 1999 but I only made 28k teaming for crst. At the time I didnt have kids or a house or a car note, but for a 40 somthing with all those bills to come jump into this industry and try and survive??....wow
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