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Originally Posted by TimberWolf
This year I should break 57,000 as it looks with my last 1/4 bonus and at most I put in 55 hours a week, and yes i am in my bed every night, with Sun & Mon off and most holidays even pulling fuel.
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Be honest here.
How many people going into trucking are going to end up with a local gig like that?
Don't BS the newbies on this board.
Most are going to start and end up pulling for the McMega carriers at less thatn .40 cpm on HHG rip-off miles getting used and abused trying to win the company's idle reduction contest.
Many more will get fed up with the low pay and never seeing home and leave the industry a little less poorer.
The statistics say that over 50% of 1st year drivers will be involved in some type of low-speed backing accident.
Good jobs like Wal-Mart, FedEx, UPS, fuel-hauling, etc want whistle-clean MVR/DACs.
And there are only so many of those jobs available since the guys that have them never quit.
Put it to you like this: out of my original driving school class of 20 there is only one still employed driving a truck.
And the only reason for that is because I was fortunate enough to move on to a LTL job
Where I'm paid and treated like a human being.
Be honest....how many will end up with jobs like ours?