[Frogman]

I thought I had done sufficient research . . . but . . . then I got asked a question I can't answer (and it's a good one) so I want to get opinions on the following:


One TMC person says $4000 to truck is what a great driver gets per week. But what is a "week?" Does it mean Mon - Fri or does it refer to 7 days (like for the Long-Haul guy who's out 14 or more days)?


A JBH person says 2500 miles is the average for the fleet per week. But what's a week . . . Mon - Fri or does it refer to 7 days (like for the Long-Haul guy who's out 14 or more days)?


I read where an experienced driver said SRT was generally giving drivers 3300 miles per week. Again . . . Mon - Fri or 7 days, etc, etc.


Basically, every company discusses mileage per week or dollars to truck per week but I'm not sure there's any agreement on what constitutes a week.

Any comments welcome!

[Cluggy619]

Originally Posted by Frogman

I thought I had done sufficient research . . . but . . . then I got asked a question I can't answer (and it's a good one) so I want to get opinions on the following:


One TMC person says $4000 to truck is what a great driver gets per week. But what is a "week?" Does it mean Mon - Fri or does it refer to 7 days (like for the Long-Haul guy who's out 14 or more days)?


A JBH person says 2500 miles is the average for the fleet per week. But what's a week . . . Mon - Fri or does it refer to 7 days (like for the Long-Haul guy who's out 14 or more days)?


I read where an experienced driver said SRT was generally giving drivers 3300 miles per week. Again . . . Mon - Fri or 7 days, etc, etc.


Basically, every company discusses mileage per week or dollars to truck per week but I'm not sure there's any agreement on what constitutes a week.

Any comments welcome!

It's usually 7 days a week.

And FYI, I never saw 2500 miles while working for JBH. My range was 1700-2000, with my last week 2300. But that was just me....you could be different. Good luck.

[Uturn2001]

A week is 7 days unless you know you are on some kind of dedicated run that has you home/off more often.

[Walking Eagle]

If TMC was paying 4,000 a week to the driver everyone would be driving for them !! That might be what THEIR truck makes a (7 day) week but then they pay on what miles it actualy ran.

[madii'swife]

Originally Posted by Walking Eagle

If TMC was paying 4,000 a week to the driver everyone would be driving for them !! That might be what THEIR truck makes a (7 day) week but then they pay on what miles it actualy ran.

Walking Eagle, Quite a few TMC drivers are paid percentage, based on what they make "to the truck". 23-32% depending from what I know, this would be what he's refering to.

[Drakmare]

It's usually 7 days a week.

So you guys out there driving are only going 350 miles a day? Divide that by say 65 miles an hour thats only 5 hours of driving..... Am I missing something?

[Walking Eagle]

$16,000 per week gross to the truck all us O/O's would lease to them ! I Heavy Haul so a loy of times make quite a bit more than that but it is offset by the sitting/deadhead. Very few trucks out there make close to 2500 per day.

[Walking Eagle]

700 miles per day for 7 days, every week (you can't log it) is 4900 mpw x .35 cpm avaerage = $ 1715 per 7 days
$4000 a week would be about .82 cents per mile and I don't know any company that pays that to a company driver.

[madii'swife]

The $4000 is what is "to the truck" meaning thats the worth of what they're hauling in that week. The driver gets the percentage of that depending on level up to 32%, NOT the $4000. So nobody is saying anybody is grossing $4000 a week.....

[Sealord]

"So you guys out there driving are only going 350 miles a day? Divide that by say 65 miles an hour thats only 5 hours of driving..... Am I missing something?" Yup. BOL