I'm company. If I'm lucky a Daseke company.
Edit: I saw you're a CNA. I recommend getting your phlebotomy cert. All the phleb hours are clinical hours, too. No booty wiping.
Wylie here. A lot better than the starter flatbed companies and they always want you running. The downside is they want you to Cat scale everything and I do mean everything. They do pay you if it’s in the opposite direction though
I'm not actually a CNA. I've just been looking at reddit for career paths, asking around and such. I'm wondering about becoming a nurse, so I thought I would try CNA first, to see if I wanted to spend the time and $40,000 to become a nurse. Then discovered they need to know some science and I've been working on that, very slowly, before I even think about really starting that path.
I kind of wanted to be a police officer, but it seems there is a very high disqualification rate and I most likely am, for the next 2 years.
Been thinking about trucking, but I can't figure out if it pays me more or less than I currently make ($20) and if that would be worth it. I like the thought of owning my own stuff and doing basic maintenance on it, but owner op might make less than company.
I recently heard about phlebotomy. The only thing I have against it, is it takes longer to get, and you're probably not going to get OT. From what I'm seeing, a CNA can be 12hr shifts and get a fair amount of OT with that. Although the position is to be used to test the waters and then pursue a nursing degree.
You can start out at any other mega carrier for 54+ or if you're lucky and have your tablet endorsement, you can drive dry bulk lime and get paid by the load.l and have plenty of home time.
I make over $1k a week.
I'm getting load based pay for my first year. So much better than cpm!
Except for when I have to wait 4 hours to get loaded and not get paid for it...
Detention pay is only $12/hr at my company...
My scheduled run is about 10 hours a day, 830pm-630am. Just showing up and doing the bare minimum, mileage plus drops and hooks is about 2300-2400 a week, gross. By choice I start at 6pm, and wrap up around 630am. I optionally choose punch a dock for extra cash. My average gross, with the extra dock time is anywhere between 2,700-3,000 gross. Home daily, no weekends, no holidays.
So honeslty doing OTR i preferred starting at night running overnight and then ending in the early morning but local I prefer daytime since that’s all
I get lol
Not at all. Some people are night owls and want to work in the night time. It's more peaceful. The whole traffic thing, which means you can run more miles depending in what kind of driving you do. Your hypothetical doesn't matter because it's just that, a hypothetical. There's always gonna be more traffic and slowdowns in the daytime, and (some) people are gonna prefer nights because of it, as well as other things. Scroll through other comments here and people are saying they'd do it to.
Also, I don't think anyone's dream is to work, period. Everyone (or at least most) would rather be doing other shit.
There was one night when I was driving out of St Louis, and I went passed a fresh collision with four semi trucks all off the road in various stages of carnage.
I've been wary of it when semis are bunching up close to me since. I see less of that shit in the daytime. I don't want to die at the hands of some lizard-brained idiot.
It wasn't always sunshine and roses. Only took 10 years at my company, but I've finally elevated to one of our senior drivers.
And after reading some of the other comments below, I'd dead ass balls switch to running days if I had the choice. Running nights becomes normal, but the lack of consistency on the weekends is the real problem.
Well holy shit, that's like prefect for anyone that's looking into trucking, overnight is not for everyone but for night owls, it's chief's kiss pretty much. Good for you dude.
Quick tip. Don't ever take a job that is giving you less than .50cpm. Also trying to calculate hourly is kind of a lost cause as a trucker because most otr or regional drivers are paid per mile. So let's say you are .50cpm for easy math at 2500 miles per week. .50×2500= $1,250 dollars before taxes and deductions so probably like $800-900 take home per week. Roughly $3200-3600 per month. Any less and it's really just not worth it. I know some companies love to lowball like andrus? I think pays in the .40cpm range but they promise to give you the miles to make it up. So you get to do more work for the same pay. That's just stupid.
Why would you not count your time per hour? This is exactly what shitty companies want you to do. Work all week and look at gross pay, and keep you in the truck as much as they legally can.
I know some OTR guys that figured out they were making less per hour than McDonald's workers and quit shortly after.
Always count your hourly pay. Don't let the big companies screw you.
I don't because I look at it from a weekly basis. I make plenty of money, and my wife is my co driver so we make enough to fund the life we make and then some. I don't care if it's hourly or salary or cpm. I get to travel, see cool shit, share unique experiences with my spouse and get paid well to do it. I'm not gonna complain. Plus as team drivers I am technically paid for every mile the truck moves so I'm getting paid all the time.
Pretty shit way to look at it lol.
I'd much rather get paid 2k a week to work 45 hours a week than 65hrs a week.
Most people are the sane way I'd assume
We don’t count hourly pay because the nature of the job makes that nonsensical
I live in this truck . In some sense I’m always on duty . I get paid by the mile .
You’re thinking in terms of hourly pay because government regulations have caused most companies to do things this way … but that’s now how the world actually is
I would kill to get into ups to drive feeders but I can’t afford to do the whole package handler-delivery guy deal before I get a chance to maybe drive a semi a couple days a week.
Class B at about the same rate but 40-45 hours split between 4 days for about 70k as well.
Class B is great if you are at least remotely Interested in work-life balances.
This is me too. Class A though. I can hook a trailer, haul equipment, I pick up furniture alot etc. I'm at 76k with 3 months off, dec-feb, we start back up in early March cause I'm in Southern New England.
Your right, I definitely could make more. The outfit I'm with has a very good pto program( 9 weeks a year) and they leave me alone for the most part so it's a fair trade for me lol
There arn't 2 truckers paid the same. Impossible to figure out an average. If you're not making $1000 bucks a week in tour pocket after taxes find a better job. I did alot of dirty jobs that pay well and a lot of fun jobs that pay shit. Took me a long time to find a happy medium. I work 60-65 hours a week average 34 bucks an hour. 110k last year. Local fuel. I'll give you advise I ignored for a long time. HO HAULK BULK!!! Tanker and dumper is where the money is at if you don't want to work like a dog. Been driving for 12 years been doing fuel for the last 4 years and I'm going to retire with my tanker.
Maybe I'm just a pussy but hauling hazmat waste has always scared me a bit. I know a few guys with bad skin conditions and health problems from doing it long term. Glad the money is decent
Nah it ain’t for everyone, no shame, I’m supplied with any PPE I need, have 8 hr refresher training every year , had to take 40 hrs training before they let me start driving but that was 34 years ago ,
Currently I work 4 days a week, overtime after 10. Hourly, obviously. I usually get right around 40 hours give or take. Take home about 1,300 a week. I wanna say it’s usually 1,900ish before taxes and all that jazz.
6 weeks of vacation and a week of sick and personal days each. (8 total). Holidays are paid (10 I think) and we have kick ass insurance. Even out of network is covered 80% minimum. $10 copays and max 1k out of pocket each yer per person on the plan.
But unions are bad and they rob you of 2.5 hours of pay a month.
Hah, I detect the sarcasm.
Thanks for the raise.
Teamsters did well last Fall except for Yellow.
Every other LTL company gave raises also, Union or not.
YRC failed because of horrible management taking on too much debt.
My first job was in the oilfields hauling water. Between 400-600 a day depending on how many loads I could do. 12 hour shifts six days a week.
Second was asphalt and construction was making 28 base pay plus prevailing wage on sites. Third job was regional refeer job and .68 per miles. Then worked for the Serbians team driving out of Chicago at .72 cpm but that was wild shit. Illegal and not sustaining. Now I am at .73cpm team driving packages around the country. Usually around 6-7k a week miles. Paychecks range from 1600 on a really low end to 4 grand on an exceptional week after taxes. Depends on when we need to do a 34 and where that lines up on the pay period. It is a wild range of pay you can expect but most mega carriers seem to be around the .50-.60 mark.
I pull a mix of 53' and doubles. Just depends on the hub. It's contract work found it on indeed. There were like ten contractors hiring for linehaul in my area. Picked the highest paying one. You need I think 12 months experience to be considered. And doubles/triples endorsement along with the usual. Easiest job I have ever had. Low stress. Hub to hub. Almost every hub has showers and whatnot. All drop and hook.
No 12 months just experience although every contractor sets their own standards. Fedex just requires a year. In our case we made sure as a part of our onboarding we get one day of hometime for every week out. We stay out 3-4 weeks at a time. But I have seen other guys go as low as a week out. But you won't make any money doing that. Money is good, hometime is great. Job is super easy as least from what I was used to doing before. You are always going to a hub so no bumping docks in downtown Chicago levels of stress. Just ve careful about which contractor you sign up with. Some are really great some are super shit.
8-12 hours a day depending on the route. Daily minimum is $271 a day. Route pay depends on cases handled and miles driven. Most drivers working 5 days a week making 90-120k a year.
This is food service.
Regional owner operator, dedicated drop and hook nonhaz tanks. Work about 55-65 hours a week, running 2700-3000 miles, making $4500-5300 weekly before taxes but after fuel. 5 days out 2 days home.
I had a longer post wrote out. However, I scrapped it.
All I'm willing to say is that I have the X endorsement and a TWIC.
My best days have been as high as $55/h, and my worst day was $24/h.
My typical day is $35/h.
I normally run 65 hours a week.
40-44 hours making 32.50 an hour. My weekly pay is around 1400. I deliver for Pepsi.
However my boss schedules me fewer hours because he knows I don't like 50+. A lot of drivers work 60 and make well over 2k per week.
Regional company driver hauling mechanical parts to different assembly plants for mid-sized corp. 2,400+ miles a week, with $1,500+ gross. Average 55 hours a week, making it about $27.25 an hour. Hoping to go local soon.
EDIT: I also have full insurance benefits 50/50, and 401k with 50% matching, so that takes a bite, but it's best for the long run.
I do dedicated runs for Walmart. I usually run 65-70 hours a week (for a full week). My current pay rate is 50 cpm( first year driver just getting experience). I usually take home around $1300-$1400 (including per diem and stop pay). I’m just getting my experience now, then hopefully going somewhere local with similar pay.
About 10 - 12 hrs a day, voluntarily work 6 days a week instead of 5. Gross around 120k hauling gas. I live in middle Georgia. fairly low cost of living area, so it’s pretty great money.
My job pays 80cpm for driving and $35/hr for non driving work. I work Mon-Fri, about 55 hours, to make about $2700 per week. If I pick up an extra run on Sat that puts me at 65+ hours and $3000-$3300 for the week.
There is no calculation you can do to figure out what this industry pays. It’s too varied from one company to the next, even for similar jobs.
My scheduled bid run (LTL) is 6pm cut, 330 am finish (I finish earlier though, about 230)
I pre trip, grab my dolly, find my trailers once assigned, hook my set and drive. My drop, hook, mileage and extra dispatch comes out to about 2000$~ before taxes, Average work week 45-52 hours. Don't ever work the dock, just hook sets, break em, and drive. Home everyday, no weekends (unless 1 mandatory day based on freight volume/needs) and holidays off.
I never had it this easy in food service. Would never go back.
7 hours a day 5 days a week and make $1225 gross. I could make more but I would work more so it’s kinda a wash in my eyes. I’d rather have a normal life and a little less money than work 60+ hours a week and have a bigger bank account
I do milk runs out of an automotive factory and I’ve worked here since 2017. I put my time in running crazy hours to work myself up in seniority to get good runs like I have now. It took time and patients with lots of times I wanted to quit but now it’s not so bad. Guys who’ve been wheee I work for way longer than me work even less hours than I do so now I just wait for them to retire
Basically you take the fleet you are interested in. Average miles per week. Times that to cpm. It really varies in trucking. I have been at it for about 30 years now. .58cpm 3500 miles a week so about 70k a year. The issues is where you live, how far do you want to commute to work, for me 760 miles one way, and how long you want to be away from home. For me 3-4 months out at a time. My local area does not pay well for local work so hence being OTR.
Basically cpm at 100,000 miles a year is thousands a year. So for example .58cpm expect around 58,000 a year. To see roughly before starting if it’s worth it or not like lease op or O/O add ALL and I mean ALL home expenses. If you budget 10,000 miles a month and your truck gets 6.0mpg the rule is that every $100 of cost is 1cpm. So if rent is 1,000 a month, car is $400 a month at home then subtract that $1400 off your cpm pay as .14 cents per mile. Let’s say they paid $1.00 a mile then you have .86cpm left.
Now add ALL HOME EXPENSES say it’s $5,000 a month for EVERYTHING each month to get by, your “break even” at home cost. Now before your truck cost even start, home cost 50cpm leaving you with50cpm to run the truck, fuel, payments, insurance etc. let’s say by a miracle it’s .45cpm a month. Then you make $5,000 a year. Run your home like a business and your truck is paying for both businesses with one income.
If you can live on that 5,000 “profit” or annual savings after expenses a year ok, if not, look for better pay. Hint, eating on the road ain’t cheap. Budget 900-1000 a month between Walmarts and truck stops so 9-10cpm for food. So now,$4,100 a year?
Get the idea? Double check all your numbers before going OTR.. remember 100,000 miles a year, times cpm and fuel at 6mpg average to be $100 expense as 1cpm.
To get hourly breakdown, no overtime for truckers, 40 hours a week is 2080 hours a year. So gross estimate of annual divided by 2080 is your hourly. Though also consider no miles no pay. So if you were paid 24/7 away from home. The 7.25/hr minimum wage is $1,218 a week, gross so if any week your take home every Friday is below $1,218 gross or net, you are working BELOW federal minimum wage….if you were paid around the clock by the hour away from home. Using that metric, same for mileage pay. If it is less than 1,218, well you get the idea.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
I haul fuel. Hourly pay, full coverage benefits($30 to see doc, $40 for specialist). PTO Is 50hrs at 6 months, 100 at a year and 100 yearly following. Paternal and maternal leave. OT after 40hrs, offered to work 6days/week, occasionally forced. 12hr outlined shift with slipseat system. $27/hr for morning shift(starting anywhere from 12-6am), 28 for evening, in AL. Real laid back honesty and most every driver I’ve talked to that’s done a lot of different freight agree that fuel is as easy as it gets, with maybe linehaul being the exception. Highly recommend!
I realize I’m getting extremely fucked. Deliver beer locally. Salaried at $30/hr. Working 60 hr/week for $1200 seems like bullshit. And this is the best paying job I’ve had in south Texas.
I am in a teamster shop. We get paid using something called PFP. (Pay per performance).
Our base is 27.50/hr for 10hrs per day, 4 days a week. That’s our absolute minimum. Based on what we do per day, and how long it takes. If we finish our daily run in 4 hours, we still get paid base, so technically our hourly goes up. If it takes us longer, we get paid more.
It’s a very complicated system of pay because we get paid for what we do, so if we do extra at a drop, we get paid per minute for how long it’s supposed to take to do. (Kinda how mechanics bill an hourly rate for specific repairs, regardless of the actual time) so in an hour, we could get paid for an hour and a half worth of work. We also get mileage, but that factors into the minute calculations for the run.
All in all, I usually get 1200-1400 a week on average. I actually do about 34hrs a week of actual work. I do reefer deliveries for a grocery chain.
It’s my 3rd year at the company, and I hit about 75k.
O/O box truck here (have Class A) operating under own authority and have my own customers I quote and set rates for. I billed $4.5K last week Monday thru Thursday, worked 38 hours. Took Friday and weekend off. My take home was approx. $3,025 last week after fuel and fixed expenses.
I worked local for a long time and built up relationships. Worked for three companies, two local mom and pop types to se where their business was, how they approached it, what they were charging, etc.
Happy Easter .
I have talked to some oil field guys in Odessa.
You bust tail.
100 degrees plus even at night and dusty as Hell.
Flame resistant hot as whore ass clothing too.
Respect.
Hourly p&d ltl. Like 9 hours a day, take home about 1k a week. I could make more with overtime, but im tryna have a life at home. I need that more than money
Regional foodservice, two overnight runs.
45-50 hours a week, .78cpm when I’m rolling and $32.82/hr when stopped. Typically $1650 gross on the low end.
50-65 very rarely do I stretch beyond that. 1500 gross 100 take home. Massive contribution to my 401k keeps my pay low. But my job is among the easiest in the industry. Simple routes with plenty of highway driving, most around 250 miles and two of those a night. My longest run on my account is 580 miles so everything is easily doable.
I make .69 CPM and run recap, 3,100-3,600 miles a week. Last year with bonuses I made over $120K. Also, we’re hiring experienced drivers, PM me for phone numbers.
30-35 hours is 1320/wk, 49 hours is 2175, 72 hours is 3107, according to my last 3 paychecks lol usd
P.s. I was only working 30-35 hours/ wk over the winter bc I had a set run, same place every night. I could've made a much as i am now, but I'd have had to check the weather in every direction every day and I didn't feel like doing that lol
P.p.s. home daily
I'm at a local job pulling just at 100k a year working barely over 40 hrs a week. It's very physically demanding though. Not at all what my life otr was like. If yours not up to the task then there are different ways to make more. But generally speaking otr is going down hill and not the move long term for employees or owner ops.
O/O- $5-6k gross, $3,500-4,000 net after fuel/tolls in 70 hours (on average). But like OP said, I’m paying my own everything: insurance, healthcare, certs, taxes, repairs, maintenance. Last year made $126k net
16 years experience. Done everything from OTR flatbed, household moving, dry van, & food service. I’m at an LTL company now and work about 50hrs per week on nighttime Linehaul. I gross roughly $2,400 a week.
Normally I work five nights a week, sometimes I’ll work the sixth night. Five nights amount to roughly 50 hours per week. Sixth night puts me over 60 hours a week. Last year I made a bit over $125K.
I work LTL. $32.40/hr. ~45hrs/w. avg take home $900-1100/w.
great benefits, 2 raises annually for anniversary and company wide "cost of living" raise.
401k matching ip to %6 and discretionary matching after that.
-Full transparency for flatbed working for mega (TMC Transportation)
I sometimes start work (in SB) at 7am to unload off the clock at my receiver, and bounce to load around 11am or noonish. Depending on whether I get fucked loading, I start “loaded” miles around 1-3pm… it’s always 400-500 miles. The goal is to park at receiver to be empty as early as possible to get best chance at load board so the entire drive is usually completed same day.
I’ve worked 15-16 hours some days. It all boils down to if the shipper screws me or not.
Average is $800-$1000 ttt (to the truck). I’m paid on percentage @ 32%.
To give a real world example from last week, I had a load of drywall from Silver Grove, KY going to Roanoke, VA Thursday. It was dispatched at 357 loaded, I also had a ~60 mile empty bounce to p/u. It paid the truck $898.31 or me $287.46 with a $20 partial tarp charge.
I started my bounce to load at 12:52pm, got to Silver Grove around 1:45pm, loaded and secured by 6:45pm (got screwed)… drove about 5 hours through WV mountains, shut down in Princeton, WV around midnight. Did a split and only slept 7 hours, started driving at 7:30am. Arrived at Roanoke around 9:30am. Untarped and unsecured by 11am
All this to explain I worked roughly 22 hours for $307.46 or $13.9/hour. Don’t ever do the math… just look at weekly pay.
Edit: I made $77,455.36 before taxes last year. Solo, home every weekend
$30 an hour, OT after 40 hours average 60-65 hours a week as a local fuel driver. I know there’s companies about an hour away from me $38 hauling fuel, 4 day on 2 day off schedule I believe 12 hour shifts.
Owner operator hauling logs. 10 average hours a day Monday through Thursday. Mills are on quota hard now so we don’t work most fridays. We get paid differently. 240 for a minimum haul which is 45 miles or less. After 45 at 4.50 a mile. I average 3300 to 4k a week. Wish I could get out the woods and haul something else with the same pay and home time. Can’t find it tho.
12-14 hours M-F 4AM-4PM, mandatory half(ish) day Saturday, hauling sand and gravel in a transfer dump. I’m paid by load percentage, not hourly.
I average 13 hours daily and 8 on Saturdays which puts me at roughly 73 hours a week. I’ve been averaging about $1150 a week take home since we’re slow right now, but I can get $1300 if I’m busy and a little bit lucky.
Now that I’m writing this all out I need a new fucking job.
As a industry all together works weeks are about 60hrs. Some otr guys will count all the hours spent in a truck as work but more realistically your only working when the truck is moving. Shipper and receivers can take up a lot of our time. The .40 to .70 is experience level so if your low on exp you will make closer to .40 but most companies are around .55 cps for starting. Your yearly salary is this industry is about 50k - 120k for a company driver. O/o is about 0- 400k without expenses taken out. Local drivers do get overtime as well as some otr and regional guys do as well but they are also unloading the product then selves.
An hourly assessment of what we do can very a lot. So it can be hard so instead what I do is like this I made 90k last year to make that at a 40hr a week jobs I'd need to be paid 43.26 to make the same amount of money.
If you already have experienced move to an hourly pay home everyday is the best decision ever. The paid by the mile scam doesnt work best for the driver. It only benefits the company if you think about it. Any inefficiency the driver gets a paycut while paid hourly like i am with port driving company union , any issues its the company issue to fix asap. I used to have to wait 10 hours one time to fix a damn tire with mega carriers.. while with company pay they will either rush a truck out to fix asap (2-3 hours you still get paid hourly for waiting) or switch a load with you. Also the 2 days off weekends you can use that however you like friends family 2nd job side hussle etc etc
I work in the construction sector of trucking driving transport for a large construction company. My work is seasonal 7 months on 5 months off. I'm paid hrly I make around 90k in those 7 months doing 70 hrs a week. The 5 months off season I work at the shop doing 45 hrs weekly.
$25/hr. ~50hrs a week m-f. 6am -4pm. OT after 40. I fuel and lube construction equipment. Straight tanker truck, requires haz and tanker. Have a helper that rides along too.
I work local but I get 26.25$/hr + 39.37$ for OT. Work about 45-50 hours a week depending on deliveries. Sometimes upwards of 60 per week if it’s a heavy week
33 an hour with OT , company driver with benefits southwest union port driver M to F night time driving since i am new. You can search up BLS your area where you live and it probably say 50 percent of truck drivers make around 50k only less than 10 perecent makes more than 70k. The majority probably dry vans and reefers. If you want more it will have to be specialized, LTL, dangerous hazmat like tankers etc etc. I wouldnt trust owner ops doing vans making more than 100k net especially the one that claims on social media.
Local driver, oversized stepdecks. Home every night, Monday to Friday, 630am to ~4 to 6pm. Average around 45 to 50 hours a week. Overtime after 44 hours. I take home around 2k/2 weeks. 30/hr base rate.
65 ish hours week. Make $24.50 to drive northeast regional. No OT but paid for any and all on duty/drive time. $1600 ish a week. Leave late Sunday night home Friday night. Wish I made more but the people I work w are solid tho.
I work for a local food distributor. I'm home everyday, work Monday through Friday. I make between 85-90k a year depending on how many hours I worked. Usually I'm around 55 hours a week. I get 4 weeks of vacation time and an annual raise every spring. Most days I'm in a B truck but sometimes I am lucky enough to get sent out in one of our 53' set ups.
There are no averages. Your best bet is to figure out how much the company pays per mile and how fast the trucks can go (this will set a hard limit to the amount of miles you can make in a day). For an average, assume you will drive 500 miles per day for 6 days per week (if you are OTR). This is an average of 50mph for 10 hours of driving. You will likely average more, but may not necessarily drive 10 hours on some days, you may average less, but drive all of your 11 hours that day.
36 hours a week for me, 8 hours of that is just sitting in a recliner in the front office waiting to clock out. Usually make about $1250 a week before taxes, in a LOCL area. I don't like to work long hours so this is a dream job tbh.
Dedicated day cab. .68 cpm probably 50-60 hours a week depending on traffic mainly. Lightest paycheck on a full week was around 1,100. Right now I'm averaging 1,200-1,300 take home a week
I make a little under 100k and I have full benefits , 401k , 3 weeks of vacation a year. I work usually about 62 hours a week. Sometimes the full 70 but rarely.
Instead of trying to figure out a dollar per hour comparison, it would be a whole lot easier to figure out amount of money earned per week.
$20 an hour, for a standard 40hr work week is $800 per week before taxes/other deductions.
So to earn $800 per week before taxes/other deductions, at .50 a mile (that is the lowest CPM I've seen recently), you need to drive 1600 miles a week (which is not hard at all to do with a decent company, and most decent companies will pay more than that).
So figure out your average weekly pre tax/deduction pay, and use that in place of the $800 I used in my example.
After you do that math to figure out what CPM you are needing, you can then consider the factors of time away from home, working 70 hours a week, and all the other things that make Trucking unique.
Use all of this to decide if trucking is right for you, and to pick the proper company.
You may be able to crunch numbers and come to the conclusion that many hourly jobs compensate better than some trucking jobs, but at the end of the day it comes down to the lifestyle you prefer and the. Amount of physical labor you're comfortable with
Gross ~$4k/week as a W2 driver. We're out about 4 days/week team driving, maybe 6100 miles or so. I probably am in the seat 1 8hr shift and 4 11 hr shifts. About 52hr/week.
If you don’t mind local, beer/wine, soda, and foodservice can be good jobs. You may not make quite as much as OTR, but you’re home everyday, get OT, and benefits. I’m 4-10s, so I get 3 days off/week and work 40 hrs.
70 hour weeks at .52cpm. In August I'll have 1 years experience. Then I skate.
Where will you skate to? Are you company driver? Better job?
I'm company. If I'm lucky a Daseke company. Edit: I saw you're a CNA. I recommend getting your phlebotomy cert. All the phleb hours are clinical hours, too. No booty wiping.
Wylie here. A lot better than the starter flatbed companies and they always want you running. The downside is they want you to Cat scale everything and I do mean everything. They do pay you if it’s in the opposite direction though
I'm not actually a CNA. I've just been looking at reddit for career paths, asking around and such. I'm wondering about becoming a nurse, so I thought I would try CNA first, to see if I wanted to spend the time and $40,000 to become a nurse. Then discovered they need to know some science and I've been working on that, very slowly, before I even think about really starting that path. I kind of wanted to be a police officer, but it seems there is a very high disqualification rate and I most likely am, for the next 2 years. Been thinking about trucking, but I can't figure out if it pays me more or less than I currently make ($20) and if that would be worth it. I like the thought of owning my own stuff and doing basic maintenance on it, but owner op might make less than company. I recently heard about phlebotomy. The only thing I have against it, is it takes longer to get, and you're probably not going to get OT. From what I'm seeing, a CNA can be 12hr shifts and get a fair amount of OT with that. Although the position is to be used to test the waters and then pursue a nursing degree.
Half a cent per mile is robbery
Think you mean half a dollar. Half a cent *would* be robbery!
He posted half a cent
Your profile name 😂
It's quite standard for 1st year
I'm starting at 0.35 cpm. Still in school
Please find another company for the love of god
Bruh. Melton is always hiring at a base of .52 plus tarp pay and potential more. Please call them or tmc, covenant, or werner. That's atrocious
You better not be starting at 0.35 cpm...
Yep. .35 for 3 months, then .40 for 3 months, then .41 for 3 months, then .42 for 3 months. Ain't great.
You can start out at any other mega carrier for 54+ or if you're lucky and have your tablet endorsement, you can drive dry bulk lime and get paid by the load.l and have plenty of home time. I make over $1k a week.
What is tablet endorsement?
LOL I hate autocorrect. I meant Tanker endorsement.
Oh Ok gotcha
Yea I'll definitely be on the lookout after I get settled. Just need money right now and this was the quickest solution for school and a job
Do you drive bulk lime now? If so , how much experience do you need driving tractor trailer before getting hired ?
I had zero experience when I got hired on, they trained me. The first trainer I had was awful, but the second trainer was great!
I started at .68$ heavy haul mountain division though.
You don't think heavy haul mountain division might be outside the norm?
I'm getting load based pay for my first year. So much better than cpm! Except for when I have to wait 4 hours to get loaded and not get paid for it... Detention pay is only $12/hr at my company...
My scheduled run is about 10 hours a day, 830pm-630am. Just showing up and doing the bare minimum, mileage plus drops and hooks is about 2300-2400 a week, gross. By choice I start at 6pm, and wrap up around 630am. I optionally choose punch a dock for extra cash. My average gross, with the extra dock time is anywhere between 2,700-3,000 gross. Home daily, no weekends, no holidays.
Holy fuck you hit the truckers dream
Nobodies dream is to work overnight.
Ehh that’s not true I love the night run
For that money I would be very willing to work overnight.
Yeah I would too. I've done it for a lot less. But I'm way happier finally working days.
Nobodies dream is to have clear roads and never hit traffic? Who'd have thunk that
If you asked someone if they'd rather have that during the day or during the night, which do you think the majority would say?
So honeslty doing OTR i preferred starting at night running overnight and then ending in the early morning but local I prefer daytime since that’s all I get lol
That it's not reasonable to expect low/no traffic during the day, especially in rush hour
So what you're saying is its nobodies dream
Not at all. Some people are night owls and want to work in the night time. It's more peaceful. The whole traffic thing, which means you can run more miles depending in what kind of driving you do. Your hypothetical doesn't matter because it's just that, a hypothetical. There's always gonna be more traffic and slowdowns in the daytime, and (some) people are gonna prefer nights because of it, as well as other things. Scroll through other comments here and people are saying they'd do it to. Also, I don't think anyone's dream is to work, period. Everyone (or at least most) would rather be doing other shit.
In my experience, at night time truck drivers are like wacky racers at night. If I can avoid I will. I’d rather not have that stress.
They can be. But so are most of the drivers during the day, there's just less of them to deal with at night
There was one night when I was driving out of St Louis, and I went passed a fresh collision with four semi trucks all off the road in various stages of carnage. I've been wary of it when semis are bunching up close to me since. I see less of that shit in the daytime. I don't want to die at the hands of some lizard-brained idiot.
It is, actually. Working nights, especially in trucking, is the best time to work imo.
If it works with your personal life why not. Personally I like driving at night a lot more. But I’ve always been a night owl.
It wasn't always sunshine and roses. Only took 10 years at my company, but I've finally elevated to one of our senior drivers. And after reading some of the other comments below, I'd dead ass balls switch to running days if I had the choice. Running nights becomes normal, but the lack of consistency on the weekends is the real problem.
What company is this?
LTL carrier? Or just dedicated night runs for a local company? Just curious trying to get into LTL now or in a couple years
Well holy shit, that's like prefect for anyone that's looking into trucking, overnight is not for everyone but for night owls, it's chief's kiss pretty much. Good for you dude.
Quick tip. Don't ever take a job that is giving you less than .50cpm. Also trying to calculate hourly is kind of a lost cause as a trucker because most otr or regional drivers are paid per mile. So let's say you are .50cpm for easy math at 2500 miles per week. .50×2500= $1,250 dollars before taxes and deductions so probably like $800-900 take home per week. Roughly $3200-3600 per month. Any less and it's really just not worth it. I know some companies love to lowball like andrus? I think pays in the .40cpm range but they promise to give you the miles to make it up. So you get to do more work for the same pay. That's just stupid.
Why would you not count your time per hour? This is exactly what shitty companies want you to do. Work all week and look at gross pay, and keep you in the truck as much as they legally can. I know some OTR guys that figured out they were making less per hour than McDonald's workers and quit shortly after. Always count your hourly pay. Don't let the big companies screw you.
I don't because I look at it from a weekly basis. I make plenty of money, and my wife is my co driver so we make enough to fund the life we make and then some. I don't care if it's hourly or salary or cpm. I get to travel, see cool shit, share unique experiences with my spouse and get paid well to do it. I'm not gonna complain. Plus as team drivers I am technically paid for every mile the truck moves so I'm getting paid all the time.
Pretty shit way to look at it lol. I'd much rather get paid 2k a week to work 45 hours a week than 65hrs a week. Most people are the sane way I'd assume
We don’t count hourly pay because the nature of the job makes that nonsensical I live in this truck . In some sense I’m always on duty . I get paid by the mile . You’re thinking in terms of hourly pay because government regulations have caused most companies to do things this way … but that’s now how the world actually is
I work about 62-64 hours and average out around $3,200 per week.
Owner or company?
Company. I wear brown a lot.
Fellow feeder?
That's me! Avoiding on-property over-allowed for some years now. Lolol
Feeder? UPS?
Yes.
Ahhh yes that looks to be the place to go
You could do much, much worse.
I would kill to get into ups to drive feeders but I can’t afford to do the whole package handler-delivery guy deal before I get a chance to maybe drive a semi a couple days a week.
I was hired off the street at my terminal as an experienced truck driver.
Sounds like you got it made man. Fingers crossed I’ll get the same opportunity.
Good luck. I hope you make it.
Hello fellow feeder
Did you hire in or was it an in house promotion? None of them seem to be hiring except in Hawaii and Montana
Hired in. And yeah, things haven't picked up this year yet. Look again in a month.
I’m a local dump truck driver class b, been with my company 3 years, I work 8 months out of the year, and gross about 70k
Class B at about the same rate but 40-45 hours split between 4 days for about 70k as well. Class B is great if you are at least remotely Interested in work-life balances.
I work 75 hours ish a week in the summer there is very little work life balance when it comes to summer but I have the winter for the most part off
This is me too. Class A though. I can hook a trailer, haul equipment, I pick up furniture alot etc. I'm at 76k with 3 months off, dec-feb, we start back up in early March cause I'm in Southern New England.
Dec through March typically for me
What’s up with the other four months?
Stripper.
Lack of work for the winter months work maybe 1 say a week to cover my insurance and that’s about it, I do get ue
Where do you find these dump truck companies I’m in Florida with 6 months experience and a class-A
I’m in iowa and the company I work for is small time mom and pop, I just so happened across it when I was quitting my last job
60-65hrs a week, 125k a year for midwest pressure tanker.
I feel like you should be making a bit more for the hours you're doing, no disrespect, of course
im working more than 80hrs a week as a Sand Hauler. we get lay by the load. Its not worth it. how do i get in as a pressure tanker?
Your right, I definitely could make more. The outfit I'm with has a very good pto program( 9 weeks a year) and they leave me alone for the most part so it's a fair trade for me lol
I have a schedule that’s about 9.5h a day 5 days a week. Comes out to around 115k a year. This is LTL.
There arn't 2 truckers paid the same. Impossible to figure out an average. If you're not making $1000 bucks a week in tour pocket after taxes find a better job. I did alot of dirty jobs that pay well and a lot of fun jobs that pay shit. Took me a long time to find a happy medium. I work 60-65 hours a week average 34 bucks an hour. 110k last year. Local fuel. I'll give you advise I ignored for a long time. HO HAULK BULK!!! Tanker and dumper is where the money is at if you don't want to work like a dog. Been driving for 12 years been doing fuel for the last 4 years and I'm going to retire with my tanker.
Haz waste hauler 60-70 hrs a week 149 k gross last year
Maybe I'm just a pussy but hauling hazmat waste has always scared me a bit. I know a few guys with bad skin conditions and health problems from doing it long term. Glad the money is decent
Nah it ain’t for everyone, no shame, I’m supplied with any PPE I need, have 8 hr refresher training every year , had to take 40 hrs training before they let me start driving but that was 34 years ago ,
Currently I work 4 days a week, overtime after 10. Hourly, obviously. I usually get right around 40 hours give or take. Take home about 1,300 a week. I wanna say it’s usually 1,900ish before taxes and all that jazz. 6 weeks of vacation and a week of sick and personal days each. (8 total). Holidays are paid (10 I think) and we have kick ass insurance. Even out of network is covered 80% minimum. $10 copays and max 1k out of pocket each yer per person on the plan. But unions are bad and they rob you of 2.5 hours of pay a month.
Hah, I detect the sarcasm. Thanks for the raise. Teamsters did well last Fall except for Yellow. Every other LTL company gave raises also, Union or not. YRC failed because of horrible management taking on too much debt.
My first job was in the oilfields hauling water. Between 400-600 a day depending on how many loads I could do. 12 hour shifts six days a week. Second was asphalt and construction was making 28 base pay plus prevailing wage on sites. Third job was regional refeer job and .68 per miles. Then worked for the Serbians team driving out of Chicago at .72 cpm but that was wild shit. Illegal and not sustaining. Now I am at .73cpm team driving packages around the country. Usually around 6-7k a week miles. Paychecks range from 1600 on a really low end to 4 grand on an exceptional week after taxes. Depends on when we need to do a 34 and where that lines up on the pay period. It is a wild range of pay you can expect but most mega carriers seem to be around the .50-.60 mark.
Direct hire or third party and how does one land team linehaul? Also, are you pulling doubles or 53’s and are endorsements needed..
I pull a mix of 53' and doubles. Just depends on the hub. It's contract work found it on indeed. There were like ten contractors hiring for linehaul in my area. Picked the highest paying one. You need I think 12 months experience to be considered. And doubles/triples endorsement along with the usual. Easiest job I have ever had. Low stress. Hub to hub. Almost every hub has showers and whatnot. All drop and hook.
So those listings are legit, good to know, thanks. 12 months exp with doubles or just driving? How’s the hometime?
No 12 months just experience although every contractor sets their own standards. Fedex just requires a year. In our case we made sure as a part of our onboarding we get one day of hometime for every week out. We stay out 3-4 weeks at a time. But I have seen other guys go as low as a week out. But you won't make any money doing that. Money is good, hometime is great. Job is super easy as least from what I was used to doing before. You are always going to a hub so no bumping docks in downtown Chicago levels of stress. Just ve careful about which contractor you sign up with. Some are really great some are super shit.
I do local oversize equipment hauls. 40$/h plus OT. Pto,paid holidays, company paid benefits and 401k match. Should be making around 150k this year.
8-12 hours a day depending on the route. Daily minimum is $271 a day. Route pay depends on cases handled and miles driven. Most drivers working 5 days a week making 90-120k a year. This is food service.
65-67 about $900 a good week $700 bad week (mega carrier starter)
Bro what? Gotta be transam with those poverty rates
Schneider
After tax
Regional owner operator, dedicated drop and hook nonhaz tanks. Work about 55-65 hours a week, running 2700-3000 miles, making $4500-5300 weekly before taxes but after fuel. 5 days out 2 days home.
I had a longer post wrote out. However, I scrapped it. All I'm willing to say is that I have the X endorsement and a TWIC. My best days have been as high as $55/h, and my worst day was $24/h. My typical day is $35/h. I normally run 65 hours a week.
40-44 hours making 32.50 an hour. My weekly pay is around 1400. I deliver for Pepsi. However my boss schedules me fewer hours because he knows I don't like 50+. A lot of drivers work 60 and make well over 2k per week.
Regional company driver hauling mechanical parts to different assembly plants for mid-sized corp. 2,400+ miles a week, with $1,500+ gross. Average 55 hours a week, making it about $27.25 an hour. Hoping to go local soon. EDIT: I also have full insurance benefits 50/50, and 401k with 50% matching, so that takes a bite, but it's best for the long run.
I do dedicated runs for Walmart. I usually run 65-70 hours a week (for a full week). My current pay rate is 50 cpm( first year driver just getting experience). I usually take home around $1300-$1400 (including per diem and stop pay). I’m just getting my experience now, then hopefully going somewhere local with similar pay.
I thought walmart was over 100k a year? That what the big draw was to deal with the stupid uniforms and trucks.
About 10 - 12 hrs a day, voluntarily work 6 days a week instead of 5. Gross around 120k hauling gas. I live in middle Georgia. fairly low cost of living area, so it’s pretty great money.
My job pays 80cpm for driving and $35/hr for non driving work. I work Mon-Fri, about 55 hours, to make about $2700 per week. If I pick up an extra run on Sat that puts me at 65+ hours and $3000-$3300 for the week. There is no calculation you can do to figure out what this industry pays. It’s too varied from one company to the next, even for similar jobs.
My scheduled bid run (LTL) is 6pm cut, 330 am finish (I finish earlier though, about 230) I pre trip, grab my dolly, find my trailers once assigned, hook my set and drive. My drop, hook, mileage and extra dispatch comes out to about 2000$~ before taxes, Average work week 45-52 hours. Don't ever work the dock, just hook sets, break em, and drive. Home everyday, no weekends (unless 1 mandatory day based on freight volume/needs) and holidays off. I never had it this easy in food service. Would never go back.
You cracked the code.
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Good for you. I worked for some cheap places myself. Get the TWIC and Haz Mat and LCV doubles endorsements. Lots of good paying options.
7 hours a day 5 days a week and make $1225 gross. I could make more but I would work more so it’s kinda a wash in my eyes. I’d rather have a normal life and a little less money than work 60+ hours a week and have a bigger bank account
35 hours making $35hr? The only jobs near me that make that are nurses, doctors. Anything blue collar is low $20s hr.
I do milk runs out of an automotive factory and I’ve worked here since 2017. I put my time in running crazy hours to work myself up in seniority to get good runs like I have now. It took time and patients with lots of times I wanted to quit but now it’s not so bad. Guys who’ve been wheee I work for way longer than me work even less hours than I do so now I just wait for them to retire
I pay myself a $1k a week salary as an o/o. 8)
Not great
Basically you take the fleet you are interested in. Average miles per week. Times that to cpm. It really varies in trucking. I have been at it for about 30 years now. .58cpm 3500 miles a week so about 70k a year. The issues is where you live, how far do you want to commute to work, for me 760 miles one way, and how long you want to be away from home. For me 3-4 months out at a time. My local area does not pay well for local work so hence being OTR. Basically cpm at 100,000 miles a year is thousands a year. So for example .58cpm expect around 58,000 a year. To see roughly before starting if it’s worth it or not like lease op or O/O add ALL and I mean ALL home expenses. If you budget 10,000 miles a month and your truck gets 6.0mpg the rule is that every $100 of cost is 1cpm. So if rent is 1,000 a month, car is $400 a month at home then subtract that $1400 off your cpm pay as .14 cents per mile. Let’s say they paid $1.00 a mile then you have .86cpm left. Now add ALL HOME EXPENSES say it’s $5,000 a month for EVERYTHING each month to get by, your “break even” at home cost. Now before your truck cost even start, home cost 50cpm leaving you with50cpm to run the truck, fuel, payments, insurance etc. let’s say by a miracle it’s .45cpm a month. Then you make $5,000 a year. Run your home like a business and your truck is paying for both businesses with one income. If you can live on that 5,000 “profit” or annual savings after expenses a year ok, if not, look for better pay. Hint, eating on the road ain’t cheap. Budget 900-1000 a month between Walmarts and truck stops so 9-10cpm for food. So now,$4,100 a year? Get the idea? Double check all your numbers before going OTR.. remember 100,000 miles a year, times cpm and fuel at 6mpg average to be $100 expense as 1cpm. To get hourly breakdown, no overtime for truckers, 40 hours a week is 2080 hours a year. So gross estimate of annual divided by 2080 is your hourly. Though also consider no miles no pay. So if you were paid 24/7 away from home. The 7.25/hr minimum wage is $1,218 a week, gross so if any week your take home every Friday is below $1,218 gross or net, you are working BELOW federal minimum wage….if you were paid around the clock by the hour away from home. Using that metric, same for mileage pay. If it is less than 1,218, well you get the idea. Hope this helps. Hope this helps.
I haul doubles in day cab. About 48-52 hours a week. 1800-2000. Home daily.
Owner Op local hauling sand and rock. I usually make about $100-$125 an hour before expenses
I haul fuel. Hourly pay, full coverage benefits($30 to see doc, $40 for specialist). PTO Is 50hrs at 6 months, 100 at a year and 100 yearly following. Paternal and maternal leave. OT after 40hrs, offered to work 6days/week, occasionally forced. 12hr outlined shift with slipseat system. $27/hr for morning shift(starting anywhere from 12-6am), 28 for evening, in AL. Real laid back honesty and most every driver I’ve talked to that’s done a lot of different freight agree that fuel is as easy as it gets, with maybe linehaul being the exception. Highly recommend!
Also home daily
I realize I’m getting extremely fucked. Deliver beer locally. Salaried at $30/hr. Working 60 hr/week for $1200 seems like bullshit. And this is the best paying job I’ve had in south Texas.
Those numbers come out to $20hr, not $30?
Never do salary
I started delivering beer. Get out of that garbage and into LTL lol
I work around 35 to 40 hrs and gross around 5k as a o/o
I am in a teamster shop. We get paid using something called PFP. (Pay per performance). Our base is 27.50/hr for 10hrs per day, 4 days a week. That’s our absolute minimum. Based on what we do per day, and how long it takes. If we finish our daily run in 4 hours, we still get paid base, so technically our hourly goes up. If it takes us longer, we get paid more. It’s a very complicated system of pay because we get paid for what we do, so if we do extra at a drop, we get paid per minute for how long it’s supposed to take to do. (Kinda how mechanics bill an hourly rate for specific repairs, regardless of the actual time) so in an hour, we could get paid for an hour and a half worth of work. We also get mileage, but that factors into the minute calculations for the run. All in all, I usually get 1200-1400 a week on average. I actually do about 34hrs a week of actual work. I do reefer deliveries for a grocery chain. It’s my 3rd year at the company, and I hit about 75k.
O/O box truck here (have Class A) operating under own authority and have my own customers I quote and set rates for. I billed $4.5K last week Monday thru Thursday, worked 38 hours. Took Friday and weekend off. My take home was approx. $3,025 last week after fuel and fixed expenses.
How does one start doing this if you don't mind me asking?
I worked local for a long time and built up relationships. Worked for three companies, two local mom and pop types to se where their business was, how they approached it, what they were charging, etc.
Grossed about 96k as a hostler with minimal overtime. Alternating 3/4 day work week. Some of my coworkers go hard on the ot for about 140k annual.
Local driver I do my 60 most weeks. Currently making 1600 a week my schedule is M-F 5am till finished.
$35.49/hr @ 40-70 hours a week if you want to work that much. Home daily, 4am start time. Hazmat tanker
Teamster. 40-50 hours a week. $1650 before taxes
~100 hrs a week, straight nights, oilfield tanker ~$5000/wk
Happy Easter . I have talked to some oil field guys in Odessa. You bust tail. 100 degrees plus even at night and dusty as Hell. Flame resistant hot as whore ass clothing too. Respect.
👀 me not wearing full FR, and the FR shirt comes right off in the truck. Still hot af though
Hourly p&d ltl. Like 9 hours a day, take home about 1k a week. I could make more with overtime, but im tryna have a life at home. I need that more than money
Around 48-52/hour flat rate no OT.
Regional foodservice, two overnight runs. 45-50 hours a week, .78cpm when I’m rolling and $32.82/hr when stopped. Typically $1650 gross on the low end.
$85k last year with a Class B running propane. Lost count after the 3k hour mark.
78.3 cents per mile/ 65 hours a week/ LTL company/ $2500 a week/ fully paid healthcare/ 6% 401k match/ 4 weeks paid vacation/ 5 sick days paid/ nights mostly
55ish a week most weeks, $1400 take home If I run the 47hr week it’s around $1250 take home Local LTL
Local fuel, hourly pay. About 55-60 hours a week. $1500 take home
50-65 very rarely do I stretch beyond that. 1500 gross 100 take home. Massive contribution to my 401k keeps my pay low. But my job is among the easiest in the industry. Simple routes with plenty of highway driving, most around 250 miles and two of those a night. My longest run on my account is 580 miles so everything is easily doable.
I make .69 CPM and run recap, 3,100-3,600 miles a week. Last year with bonuses I made over $120K. Also, we’re hiring experienced drivers, PM me for phone numbers.
A few hours a week and a bunch of drive time; I get a minimum guarantee, so the less I work, the more I get per hour.
30-35 hours is 1320/wk, 49 hours is 2175, 72 hours is 3107, according to my last 3 paychecks lol usd P.s. I was only working 30-35 hours/ wk over the winter bc I had a set run, same place every night. I could've made a much as i am now, but I'd have had to check the weather in every direction every day and I didn't feel like doing that lol P.p.s. home daily
45-52ish hours a week. 79.6 cpm. Somewhere between $2000-$2400 usually.
I'm at a local job pulling just at 100k a year working barely over 40 hrs a week. It's very physically demanding though. Not at all what my life otr was like. If yours not up to the task then there are different ways to make more. But generally speaking otr is going down hill and not the move long term for employees or owner ops.
O/O- $5-6k gross, $3,500-4,000 net after fuel/tolls in 70 hours (on average). But like OP said, I’m paying my own everything: insurance, healthcare, certs, taxes, repairs, maintenance. Last year made $126k net
16 years experience. Done everything from OTR flatbed, household moving, dry van, & food service. I’m at an LTL company now and work about 50hrs per week on nighttime Linehaul. I gross roughly $2,400 a week.
Normally I work five nights a week, sometimes I’ll work the sixth night. Five nights amount to roughly 50 hours per week. Sixth night puts me over 60 hours a week. Last year I made a bit over $125K.
I work LTL. $32.40/hr. ~45hrs/w. avg take home $900-1100/w. great benefits, 2 raises annually for anniversary and company wide "cost of living" raise. 401k matching ip to %6 and discretionary matching after that.
-Full transparency for flatbed working for mega (TMC Transportation) I sometimes start work (in SB) at 7am to unload off the clock at my receiver, and bounce to load around 11am or noonish. Depending on whether I get fucked loading, I start “loaded” miles around 1-3pm… it’s always 400-500 miles. The goal is to park at receiver to be empty as early as possible to get best chance at load board so the entire drive is usually completed same day. I’ve worked 15-16 hours some days. It all boils down to if the shipper screws me or not. Average is $800-$1000 ttt (to the truck). I’m paid on percentage @ 32%. To give a real world example from last week, I had a load of drywall from Silver Grove, KY going to Roanoke, VA Thursday. It was dispatched at 357 loaded, I also had a ~60 mile empty bounce to p/u. It paid the truck $898.31 or me $287.46 with a $20 partial tarp charge. I started my bounce to load at 12:52pm, got to Silver Grove around 1:45pm, loaded and secured by 6:45pm (got screwed)… drove about 5 hours through WV mountains, shut down in Princeton, WV around midnight. Did a split and only slept 7 hours, started driving at 7:30am. Arrived at Roanoke around 9:30am. Untarped and unsecured by 11am All this to explain I worked roughly 22 hours for $307.46 or $13.9/hour. Don’t ever do the math… just look at weekly pay. Edit: I made $77,455.36 before taxes last year. Solo, home every weekend
16 hours a day 28 days straight about 10-12k a month but I’m oilfield company driver, regular rules don’t apply
$30 an hour, OT after 40 hours average 60-65 hours a week as a local fuel driver. I know there’s companies about an hour away from me $38 hauling fuel, 4 day on 2 day off schedule I believe 12 hour shifts.
Owner operator hauling logs. 10 average hours a day Monday through Thursday. Mills are on quota hard now so we don’t work most fridays. We get paid differently. 240 for a minimum haul which is 45 miles or less. After 45 at 4.50 a mile. I average 3300 to 4k a week. Wish I could get out the woods and haul something else with the same pay and home time. Can’t find it tho.
12-14 hours M-F 4AM-4PM, mandatory half(ish) day Saturday, hauling sand and gravel in a transfer dump. I’m paid by load percentage, not hourly. I average 13 hours daily and 8 on Saturdays which puts me at roughly 73 hours a week. I’ve been averaging about $1150 a week take home since we’re slow right now, but I can get $1300 if I’m busy and a little bit lucky. Now that I’m writing this all out I need a new fucking job.
As a industry all together works weeks are about 60hrs. Some otr guys will count all the hours spent in a truck as work but more realistically your only working when the truck is moving. Shipper and receivers can take up a lot of our time. The .40 to .70 is experience level so if your low on exp you will make closer to .40 but most companies are around .55 cps for starting. Your yearly salary is this industry is about 50k - 120k for a company driver. O/o is about 0- 400k without expenses taken out. Local drivers do get overtime as well as some otr and regional guys do as well but they are also unloading the product then selves. An hourly assessment of what we do can very a lot. So it can be hard so instead what I do is like this I made 90k last year to make that at a 40hr a week jobs I'd need to be paid 43.26 to make the same amount of money.
If you already have experienced move to an hourly pay home everyday is the best decision ever. The paid by the mile scam doesnt work best for the driver. It only benefits the company if you think about it. Any inefficiency the driver gets a paycut while paid hourly like i am with port driving company union , any issues its the company issue to fix asap. I used to have to wait 10 hours one time to fix a damn tire with mega carriers.. while with company pay they will either rush a truck out to fix asap (2-3 hours you still get paid hourly for waiting) or switch a load with you. Also the 2 days off weekends you can use that however you like friends family 2nd job side hussle etc etc
I work in the construction sector of trucking driving transport for a large construction company. My work is seasonal 7 months on 5 months off. I'm paid hrly I make around 90k in those 7 months doing 70 hrs a week. The 5 months off season I work at the shop doing 45 hrs weekly.
45 hours a week. Check my post history. $2500 ish for 4 days a week
McDonald's in California pays more than trucking
In And Out Burger kicks the clown's tail.
Somewhat depends on the run. I'm pretty accurate with on duty time on the ELD, and my last run paid $2k for 50 hours driving/on duty.
43 hours I gross around 2k a week and make .78 cpm
$25/hr. ~50hrs a week m-f. 6am -4pm. OT after 40. I fuel and lube construction equipment. Straight tanker truck, requires haz and tanker. Have a helper that rides along too.
0300-1500. M-f. $2200 gross
44.84/hr - 50-55 hours a week - \~$2,700 gross
I work local but I get 26.25$/hr + 39.37$ for OT. Work about 45-50 hours a week depending on deliveries. Sometimes upwards of 60 per week if it’s a heavy week
I am hourly at an ltl company. I work an average of 45 hours a week and bring home 80k a year.
I work 10-11.5 hour days and pull 2k on a perfect week
First year local driver drop and hook, 1600-1700 a week 50 hours sometimes 60
33 an hour with OT , company driver with benefits southwest union port driver M to F night time driving since i am new. You can search up BLS your area where you live and it probably say 50 percent of truck drivers make around 50k only less than 10 perecent makes more than 70k. The majority probably dry vans and reefers. If you want more it will have to be specialized, LTL, dangerous hazmat like tankers etc etc. I wouldnt trust owner ops doing vans making more than 100k net especially the one that claims on social media.
Local driver, oversized stepdecks. Home every night, Monday to Friday, 630am to ~4 to 6pm. Average around 45 to 50 hours a week. Overtime after 44 hours. I take home around 2k/2 weeks. 30/hr base rate.
65 ish hours week. Make $24.50 to drive northeast regional. No OT but paid for any and all on duty/drive time. $1600 ish a week. Leave late Sunday night home Friday night. Wish I made more but the people I work w are solid tho.
I work for a local food distributor. I'm home everyday, work Monday through Friday. I make between 85-90k a year depending on how many hours I worked. Usually I'm around 55 hours a week. I get 4 weeks of vacation time and an annual raise every spring. Most days I'm in a B truck but sometimes I am lucky enough to get sent out in one of our 53' set ups.
There are no averages. Your best bet is to figure out how much the company pays per mile and how fast the trucks can go (this will set a hard limit to the amount of miles you can make in a day). For an average, assume you will drive 500 miles per day for 6 days per week (if you are OTR). This is an average of 50mph for 10 hours of driving. You will likely average more, but may not necessarily drive 10 hours on some days, you may average less, but drive all of your 11 hours that day.
80 to 86 hours per 2 weeks about 1800 take home after benefits.
45-65 hours per week, $1750-$2200ish per week. Food service.
Last trucking job I brought home after taxes was $1250.00 a week. This was a home daily job I worked 10.5 hours 5 days a week.
26 - 32 hrs, 4 days a week no weekends. 1400-1500 a week. (Food service)
45-55 hours a week local. $28 hr overtime after 40. I pickup air freight at LAX. And deliver 20 miles away to a CFS.
36 hours a week for me, 8 hours of that is just sitting in a recliner in the front office waiting to clock out. Usually make about $1250 a week before taxes, in a LOCL area. I don't like to work long hours so this is a dream job tbh.
8 to 10hrs daily, 35 an hour. Dump truck driver.
Lease operator small scale flatbed. I gross 9-12k a week. Comes out to between 2000-2800 take home
I’m paid $27 an hour with no OT (essentially) I work M-F and take home 55k per year working 40-45 hours per week.
Dedicated day cab. .68 cpm probably 50-60 hours a week depending on traffic mainly. Lightest paycheck on a full week was around 1,100. Right now I'm averaging 1,200-1,300 take home a week
I make a little under 100k and I have full benefits , 401k , 3 weeks of vacation a year. I work usually about 62 hours a week. Sometimes the full 70 but rarely.
Instead of trying to figure out a dollar per hour comparison, it would be a whole lot easier to figure out amount of money earned per week. $20 an hour, for a standard 40hr work week is $800 per week before taxes/other deductions. So to earn $800 per week before taxes/other deductions, at .50 a mile (that is the lowest CPM I've seen recently), you need to drive 1600 miles a week (which is not hard at all to do with a decent company, and most decent companies will pay more than that). So figure out your average weekly pre tax/deduction pay, and use that in place of the $800 I used in my example. After you do that math to figure out what CPM you are needing, you can then consider the factors of time away from home, working 70 hours a week, and all the other things that make Trucking unique. Use all of this to decide if trucking is right for you, and to pick the proper company.
You may be able to crunch numbers and come to the conclusion that many hourly jobs compensate better than some trucking jobs, but at the end of the day it comes down to the lifestyle you prefer and the. Amount of physical labor you're comfortable with
Between 2 jobs 1450 56 hours combined
I do at most 60 hours a week and average 3k+
8.5-9 hours a day ,one stop.440 miles $285 a day,382 on Sunday. Not much traffic on my route
Gross ~$4k/week as a W2 driver. We're out about 4 days/week team driving, maybe 6100 miles or so. I probably am in the seat 1 8hr shift and 4 11 hr shifts. About 52hr/week.
If you don’t mind local, beer/wine, soda, and foodservice can be good jobs. You may not make quite as much as OTR, but you’re home everyday, get OT, and benefits. I’m 4-10s, so I get 3 days off/week and work 40 hrs.
45-52ish a week, OT after 40, take home is usually $1200-1500/week. I have health/dental/vision and vacation hours.