vaportrail
Well-Known Member
you really wanna work 70+hours a week at 55years old screw that...
You're not going to make big money off the bat driving OTR. That is one of the biggest fallacies in the industry. You'll be lucky to make $30,000 in your first few years.
You're starting to sound like a recruiter instead of a driver.First sentence true, 2nd sentence false. If your not braindead, you will likely make more than 30K in your first full year alone. From there, you can easily be knocking on the door of 50K+ in your 2nd and 3rd years, if you choose companies wisely.
The information on this forum alone should steer any potential driver to better money that what you are saying.
With a year experience, you can easily be driving a truck for .45/mile or higher.You're starting to sound like a recruiter instead of a driver.
Typical OTR solo mega fleet driver runs an average of 2,000 miles a week. Typical 30 cpm beginner pay would give you a gross check of $600. Multiply that by 52 to get $31,200.
Nobody makes $50,000 plus a year to start with, and it doesn't matter how smart or how much of a hard worker you think you are. If everyone made over $50,000 within their first few years, turnover rates and driver shortages wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as they are now.
I start drivers at $52k/year and then with bonuses and bennies they can earn around $70k.You're starting to sound like a recruiter instead of a driver.
Typical OTR solo mega fleet driver runs an average of 2,000 miles a week. Typical 30 cpm beginner pay would give you a gross check of $600. Multiply that by 52 to get $31,200.
Nobody makes $50,000 plus a year to start with, and it doesn't matter how smart or how much of a hard worker you think you are. If everyone made over $50,000 within their first few years, turnover rates and driver shortages wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as they are now.
My first year out with the largest mega-carrier in the US, I averaged 2,800 miles/week. I was making 34cpm when I left with right at a year in.You're starting to sound like a recruiter instead of a driver.
Typical OTR solo mega fleet driver runs an average of 2,000 miles a week. Typical 30 cpm beginner pay would give you a gross check of $600. Multiply that by 52 to get $31,200.
Nobody makes $50,000 plus a year to start with, and it doesn't matter how smart or how much of a hard worker you think you are. If everyone made over $50,000 within their first few years, turnover rates and driver shortages wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as they are now.
You weren't even in the business when I started and I don't want to be based in North Dakota. Three kinds of people live there: Oil field workers, Indian tribes that got stuck with it and nutjobs.
I thought you worked for the Post Office.I got quite successful in LTL, but it wasn't easy to get where I'm at. LTL is hard work, so make no assumptions that you'll be doing nothing but D&H's with LTL. You'll have to touch everything that comes on and off your truck, and in most cases drive a truck that's older than you are. With some LTL's, you'll earn every bit of that $70,000 a year.
You offer nothing but your short lived experience with CRE and the DOOM AND GLOOM you suffered as "this is how it is newbie, so you better learn to like it!"And DoubleD, what I offer new drivers is truth, not a sugar coated 9-iron measuring contest.
Then be honest about your tenure, your pay, how you became an authority with six months OTR.I'm a driver that has been there and done that, and will be HONEST about my experiences and income.
WOW!Btw, I saw a celadon shuttle van at a Wallmart here in town today. I bumped into the new drivers at the customer service counter. It was a new husband and wife team, and they were trying to transfer $14 from their Comdata card to their Wallmart card. They could only transfer $10, and were $4 short of going home. I gave them $5, and they made a huge deal about it. This is the reality many new drivers face, and this is the side of the industry I try to expose to them before they make a career change because a driver acting like a recruiter told them they can make $50,000 a year plus to start with.
Cute.Rookies need to learn the good, the bad, and the ugly facts about this job. It is by no means "rainbows and kittens".
In fact, misguidance is one of the leading causes of driver turnover, and Yall are contributing to that. You are trying to sell a Pinto as if its a Ferarri.