What company do u work for?

 

125K for me, and I only work 3 days a week, and by the way I run over the road....lol, forgot to say, I am a company driver also........... :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

I guess I should remind everyone that I have my city retirement income in there too......

 

I must question this post:

driverboy

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: Reply with quote

This thread is more interesting than most "what do you make" threads as it seems to be filled with facts on what to expect wage wise from (mostly) honest accounts.

To make over a 100K it will not happen at .30-.50 cents a mile and that is what the industry pays. However, find a run that pays 12 hours or so, at a solid unionized shop (UAW) with a pay rate in excess of $30/hr and there you have your 100K a year on a 5 day pay, add in some Saturday productions at the plants you are feeding and 125K is the doable if you do not mind working 6 days a week, I think I hit around 25 Saturdays last year. By working smart my run takes just over 8 hours, and pays over 12.

Keep in mind however that automotive freight is a different animal in regards to missed windows. It just doesn't happen. Feeling sluggish, or stopping several times per leg, you had better be leaving with enough fat to get you back to the plant ontime. If a plant drops on your missed window a plant that employs 5000 people comes to a grinding halt to the tune of over 3 million dollars gross sales lost PER HOUR LATE. Do that even once and you'll be looking for a new job that probably doesn't pay as well! (that figure is also dismissing that same UAW wage of over 30/hr to the thousands of members that still make that amount sitting idle in the plant waiting on the parts)

I have not missed a window time yet and do not plan to, it just can not happen. So far those that can call in and explain your lateness with valid reasons you have a grace that I am not offered so in that respect be gratefull, I am just paid dearly to be denied that luxury!

Pick a week anytime this year and I'll scan my gross for that week, I just took a look and not 1 this year is under $2000 unless I took some time off which is rare, I just feel that's a little extreme to prove what newbies or potential new drivers want to know. Regardless there is great money to be made in trucking you just have to chase it, good luck to all!



By what you gave us to work with, even with the Saturday pay you still barley hit 100k, so please come off the 125k a year TRUCK DRIVER, it just insults our intelligence. Not to mention 12 hrs a day for 6 days is 72 hrs. You have to admit, this guy DREAMS BIG...lol I think he comes here to slum with the regular guy...lol I'm not trying to put you down, but most of us here would have to see proof to believe this story!!!!
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i drive a flatbed regional, and only made 20k..after per diem taken out. worked my arse off too. what a rip!

 

To me, deep into the 6 digits is somewhere above $700,000. Even at 120 I am just above the water line...

 

Gee SSouthlaw, hope your better at working your own finances than mine with a calculator, if I was to work 5 day work weeks at 40-45 hour weeks I would make well over a 100K in that year. (take 2000 X 52 for a quick ballpark). That hasn't happened yet though with usually 20-30 Saturdays to add to that base on decent years.

I would guess you make considerably less and for that reason you should look around and see what others that are successful in this industry are making, it's not that hard.

 

Lets see, you said 30.00 hr, 12 hrs a day = 360.00 a day.
If you worked 5 days a week that would be 260 days a year.
Now 260 days X 360.00 a day is 93,600.
Now add the 25 Saturdays you said 360.00 x 25 = 9000.00
With my calculator 93.600.00 x 9,000 = 102,600.00
This is nowhere near 125k. You are full of shit, plain and simple, and you expect everyone here to believe you. Show us if you want us to swallow this fairy tale!! So far, your lie is the biggest on the forum, you should have started this story out with " you ain't gonna believe this shit " so we would have been prepared.
Now let me tell you a story, my w2 says I made 175.623. Do you think I would expect everyone to believe it just because I typed it on this forum?
If you would have said 75k or 85k It could have been in the realm of possibility!
Now you have already added 5 Saturdays in your 2ND post, what are you going to ADD NOW. Don't come on here and tell these newbies they could make this amount, your painting a picture they will never see!
If you want to save face you must prove to me and this forum you are right, and I am wrong. If I am wrong, I will concede to you being the highest paid company truck driver in the country!!!
Back to you DRIVER!!!! :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

I know some of our feeder drivers (tractor trailer) can push $100,000. They make a little more than us package drivers per hour, plus if they pull doubles they get another $.85 an hour. Not just for the time they pull the triples, but for the whole night. Also, overtime after 8 hours not 40hrs for the week.

 

Well Ssouthlaw, if your truck only grossed 175K last year you are not very good at what you do, period. It may be a comfortable life for you with the profit you have left and if that is what you are content with more power to you. If and when my gig dries up I will emulate my business model after friends that are grossing double what you are in a year with one well run truck. They are not liars, nor are they wishfull thinkers. They have a great life from a well run truck as can anyone if you use common sense, my point in giving hope to newbies to an industry that is crying for them. Although perhaps if no one enters trucking in years to come rates may come back to where they were in the early 80's? Doubt it.

When I see someone doing better than I am I don't rain on their parade I inquire as to what got them to where they are and then I emulate them, it has done me well as I am where I am with that mentality, try it sometime.

What could I possible do to prove my wage to you? I just looked at this weeks earnings and this week gross income is $2441 as a company driver. Do you want me to scan it and post it, email it you, what? Call is yours but if it means you'll admit you are wrong and quite possibly you could learn from someone else I'll snail mail you the entire stub and you can put it on your fridge.

Each run pays $400 dollars or more, based on which plant you are feeding, 2K Xmas bonus, another 3K in sick time that if the (paid) vacation weeks off are enough (about 7), you just take the 3K above and beyond your earnings. On 5 day weeks that is well over a 100K a year, period.

This all nothing new to anyone that does not have blinders on in the industry. "Greasing a run" that pays say 12.5 hours and only takes 9 to perform if you run hard has been going on for years, can you honestly state you have never heard of that? I am blessed with a high hourly rate that coupled with a run that can be greased makes for a very high hourly rate of pay on an average run, nearing $50/hr.

I also run odd shifts to pull the "greasable" runs that my seniority would otherwise not allow me to run, therefore I am out rolling miles while most are sleeping. Just as well I find a more professional and courteous driver at night, it's not for everyone.

I could work steady days if I choose at an approx hit to the annual income of 30-40K a year gross, not worth it to me at this point, maybe someday.

and finally the spellingcheck dumps you to an advertising site, neat trick, so there may be some errors in the body of this message, time to run some errands.