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Originally Posted by echoy97
Before I decided what kind of job to do, I want to know more about OTR drivers. For those of you doing OTR and dont get to go home often, even if you are earning a big pay check, what do you do with it?
Lets say I am doing OTR , spending lots of time on the road and go home once a weeks or less than once a week.. Lets say I have $ to buy a $1000 TV or a $100,000 car. I only get to watch big screen TV once a week, or drive my dream car once a week ?
For those if you have experience driving OTR, i would really like to know how you enjoy spending your $$$.
And then there are things $ cant buy. Anyone got problem with family members after starting a OTR job ?
Like Uturn2001 said, your not making much as an OTR driver. First you need to ask yourself what expenses you have at home. Rent? Car payment? Utilities? Cable TV? Phone? Cell Phone? Insurance? Credit Card payment? What does all that stuff add up to? So let's throw out a fiction example:
Rent $600
Car Payment $200
Cable TV $50
Phone $25
Garbage pickup $15
Cell Phone $40
Insurance $100
Credit Card $50
Utilities $100
Fuel $80
Misc expenses $100
So in this fiction example you have $1360 a month in basic expenses. Now lets look a a typical newbie starting off and lets say you landed a job paying .30 cpm with a decent company and lets assume an average weekly miles at 2500.
.30 X 2500 = $750 (gross pay)
After Uncle Sugar gets done with you, social security, benefits etc your take home is going to be roughly $525 give or take. Oh you want to retire some day??? Ok, lets say $472.50 a week pay. That is $1890 a month take home. Oh yeah, road expenses for you living on the road will set you back at leat $100 a week, or $400 a month. So now you take home pay is $1490.
$1490(take home) - $1360(basic expenses) = $130 (your money)
So as you can see from a pretty simple example your not going to be buying $100,000 cars, $1000 TV's(unless you save for a very long time), or buying a mansion somewhere unless you have a spouse that also works and makes good money and you can afford to bank her checks.
It sounds like you have a pretty unrealistic view of what an OTR driver makes. BOL
Longsnowsm