You could post your company info, so we could check it out!

But the numbers you posted, is a joke! :P

 

I guess it is no wonder that the auto industry is losing so much money. They are paying drivers six figures to deliver the parts. I have seen ads for auto parts hauling before,but they dont come close to this sort of income. There must be some hidden compartments for the freight that is really paying this money.

 

Well I seem to remember another company, called Consolidated Freight, whose drivers made 60, 70, 80, and 90 thousand dollars a year, and where is Consolidated at now? just a thought.

 

I'm not trying to rain on any ones parade. That 175k was a story like I said to start with. I don't own a truck, and I don't know why you think I do. I have been in this business for 30 yrs and the wages you show for yourself are completely absurd for a company driver. Then telling us your friends are double that is just a fairy tale. Not saying it cant be done, but 350k is even hard for a O/O. It would be easy to fake a w2 form so there is no way, really to prove yourself right, or me wrong! Who do you drive for as a company driver?? I really don't know of a driver that is really worth the kind of money you say you make. I really don't know what else to say to you, I think you have really insulted our intelligence on this forum!! and you know over the Internet there is no way to prove or disprove your writings!!

 

$33,864

Almost 7 months OTR with CFI... $21,851
and 4 months local... $12,013

 

If driverboy IS making over $30.00 an hour..and working 70 hour weeks...every week...yea..he could gross over $125K.....MAYBE.

Day 1 through 5;

First 8 hours @ $36.00 X 40 = $1440.00 X 52 = $74,880

Day 1 through 5;

Hours 9 & 10 ...2 hours @ $54.00 = $108.00 X 52 = $ 5,616.00
(straight overtime)

Day 1 through 5;

Hours 11 & 12...2 hours @ $72.00 = $144.00 X 52 = $7,488.00
(double time for second 2 hours of overtime)

25 Saturdays @ 12 hours each; 12 X 25 X $72.00 = $21,600.00
(double time for saturday's worked)

9 Paid Holidays worked, 12 hours each day; 12 X 9 X $90.00 = $9,720.00
(double time and half, in addition to regular day's pay above)

Total is........... $ 119,304.

Now.....do that year in and year out..you are one tired Jose`.


Are there really driver's out there making in exccess of $30.00 and hour?

Yes......but they are so few and far between...and them drivers NEVER quit the job.

 

For the trucking industry mine was only $300.00. ops: May it be much better this year!

 

Finally some intelligent discussion (OrangeTxguy), your right working 70+ hours per week would be gruelling over the long term.

I get PAID over 70 hours a week but only actually work just over 50 (say 9 hours per shift avg X 6 days). Hence working 54ish hours a week I do not find to be in excess, I am sure many work more than that in a given week that are reading this.

Its not for anyone, the timelines are to the minute, you do not miss windows, period. The pressure to "get it done" in icy/slick conditions 200 miles from the plant that has 1500 people waiting to use them is something totally different than the OTR reality of packing it in for the day when things are turning ugly, I wish that was an option. Sleeping in a daycab sideways I have mastered, ha.

Would that pressure be worth 6 digits plus to you? Maybe not, picking and choosing loads and planning multiday hometimes may be more important than making big bucks. To those that choose that option more power to ya.

I have never worked a Sunday shift, they are available but not my thing I make do with the 72 hours and enjoy my Sunday enjoying the fruits of my labor. Usually my OT hours are higher than most from all the Monday to Friday built into my lane so it goes to others (with less seniority) that have less OT hours. An equally fair system to all that nobody has a problem with, least of which me.

until next time..........

 

Well written. All the info so far seems just a little fishy. His hours worked a day are weird. His numbers of miles are pretty low. (400-450 so can we assume what ever you deliver is no more than 225 miles away from your pickup?) His company pays 12 hours for a run that can be completed in 8-9. Pressure to get it done in all types of conditions. Who loads and unloads your truck? Plus what type of freight is so important you cannot be late, but you have multiple destinations that recieve 24 hours 7 days a week all of which are within 230 miles of where you reload.

 

For some reason that chick in your avatar is attractive in a morbid kind of way.

What is fishy about automotive just in time freight, does nobody on this board run it? It's huge around the motor city (Detroit,Michigan), it's what most freight is dragged around the highways here.

Many plants run 3 shift operations that fire up late Sunday night and run 24 hours right into Saturday evening. (afternoon shift).

Tier 1 suppliers feed these plants just in time, meaning no excess inventory is keep on hand, the receiving plants run around 75 vehicles per hour, over 1 a minute. If that factory is stopped due to a parts shortage, 1000s of people all making UAW wages can not build the product, millions per hour in lost revenue.

I am not sure where the confusion is, most states have some type of major manufacturing facility in them, no? Perhaps not conventional big 3 but similar operations?

My Tier1 supplier has that trailer waiting loaded when I arrive, if it is not ready they are not Tier 1 suppliers for long, every hour delay caused by "vendor delay" costs them millions, and the ordering plant bills them such.

I drop my trailer at the plant it is intended for and leave with empty racks, the plants "shunters" dock the trailer in to the minute as it is needed, I do not. I am at my destination for 10 minutes and back home.

We are in day cabs, I would not think anyone in a daycab would venture much further than 200-250 miles from home base, unless the company holes you up in a hotel if a run falls apart, I could be wrong nationally. No one I know in a day cab in this area logs more than 400-450 miles a day.

Tell me about your line of work and I'll tell you about mine. Doubt my wage if anyone cares to, I know company drivers that make more than I, just not Internet savvy enough to share with others. Knowledge is king. If your not making what you feel you are worth than better yourself until you are, I have.

Final note, my company bids on work with several other bidders meaning we are awarded lanes based on bid amount. We win lanes on lowest bid price, I just am paid a larger share of that bid than others is my educated guess. In essence other companies have a larger profit margin than mine by paying their drivers less yet overall gross income is similar based on miles.

While it would be great if a plant would say "Great you pay your drivers over a 100K so I'll pay more for them to pull it" and pay more per mile, that is not reality, who would. The cost of a car is unrelated to my decent wage, if a competitor was pulling my freight that company would just put more profit in their pocket as the winning bid is within pennies of each other. It's the driver that feels the pinch working for a low wage when their company is reaping in insane profits off their hard work.

Other than automotive all I know is produce, which there is a mint to be made as well, 6 digit net for fun if your shrewd. Perhaps I waltzed into the 2 highest paying types of freight involved, and therefore am skewed as to what others make. Enlighten me with other types of freight.........