4 years younger, have a cheap mortgage and 10 acres of forest I bought cheap long ago. All cheap cars. Similar perspective after 18 years of driving, but never liked the sales like experience of daycab work FYI ALL freight types are at least a dollar less than they were BEFORE 2020 due to saturation and broker trends
I think you may have missed the first lesson in life, mostly because nobody is teaching that class so you are in the same boat as everyone else trying to figure it out as you go. The first lesson in life that must be learned it doesn't matter what you make, it is what you keep that matters .It does matter if you make $200 a week or $2000 a week if spend every dime of it at the end of the day you still have nothing. So no matter what you're income is the first thing that must be done is learn how to live on less than what you Make. Good Luck!
Have you thought about finding parking out that way? That way you’re saving on fuel by traveling in with your personal car. If there is a day where you are delving next day towards home, then take it in and get your car the following day from the yard?
Hi, yes I have thought about it. I have two primary reasons that I don't. The first is that I currently have a one vehicle household, so I leave my pickup so my girl can run errands or respond to emergencies with the kids. The other is when I ran local in 2015-16, the truck I was driving had 4 brand new batteries stolen off it while sitting on the company yard. There was supposed to be a guard on duty, but he clearly wasn't a deterrent. I'm trying to find a 2nd car, so if I can find a reasonably safe drop yard that will be my plan moving forward. Thanks for the comment, and have a great weekend.
13 hundred to take home and to pay for the oil changes and repairs ? No, thank you, I better off being a company driver. This is rip off ! No company benefits as well probably? And how about taxes ? Senior company drivers are making 18 hundred with all of the benefits on the top of it, taxes taken care of, and working 50hrs a week. Feel sorry for you brother, I was O/O years ago, had enough of it.
Sir, you need to park that truck asap and get employed with a large local trucking company. You seem like you would be a loyal employee, you could double your take home pay... one nasty tow or breakdown your causing your self wild pain for no reason. Wish you the best
I agree with a lot of what you said. I worry about a catastrophic breakdown. As for local company work, I'm making about the same or slightly more. But, the average that I'm reporting on here includes many partial weeks, which includes a short vacation, taking care of personal business, truck maintenance, and a handful of days with no work available. It also includes many days of only one short load, but business appears to be increasing on a daily basis. I believe my average should increase significantly over the next month or so as more long runs and two or more short loads in the day become the norm. If my prediction turns out to be untrue, then yes, I'll have to make a change.
4 years younger, have a cheap mortgage and 10 acres of forest I bought cheap long ago. All cheap cars. Similar perspective after 18 years of driving, but never liked the sales like experience of daycab work
FYI ALL freight types are at least a dollar less than they were BEFORE 2020 due to saturation and broker trends
I think you may have missed the first lesson in life, mostly because nobody is teaching that class so you are in the same boat as everyone else trying to figure it out as you go. The first lesson in life that must be learned it doesn't matter what you make, it is what you keep that matters .It does matter if you make $200 a week or $2000 a week if spend every dime of it at the end of the day you still have nothing. So no matter what you're income is the first thing that must be done is learn how to live on less than what you Make. Good Luck!
Have you thought about finding parking out that way? That way you’re saving on fuel by traveling in with your personal car.
If there is a day where you are delving next day towards home, then take it in and get your car the following day from the yard?
Hi, yes I have thought about it. I have two primary reasons that I don't. The first is that I currently have a one vehicle household, so I leave my pickup so my girl can run errands or respond to emergencies with the kids. The other is when I ran local in 2015-16, the truck I was driving had 4 brand new batteries stolen off it while sitting on the company yard. There was supposed to be a guard on duty, but he clearly wasn't a deterrent.
I'm trying to find a 2nd car, so if I can find a reasonably safe drop yard that will be my plan moving forward. Thanks for the comment, and have a great weekend.
@@CDLDave23That’s how the guard makes his bonus.
What area are you in
Dallas
Technically an hour east of Dallas in the Greenville and Sulphur springs area
13 hundred to take home and to pay for the oil changes and repairs ? No, thank you, I better off being a company driver. This is rip off ! No company benefits as well probably? And how about taxes ? Senior company drivers are making 18 hundred with all of the benefits on the top of it, taxes taken care of, and working 50hrs a week. Feel sorry for you brother, I was O/O years ago, had enough of it.
Sir, you need to park that truck asap and get employed with a large local trucking company. You seem like you would be a loyal employee, you could double your take home pay... one nasty tow or breakdown your causing your self wild pain for no reason. Wish you the best
I agree with a lot of what you said. I worry about a catastrophic breakdown. As for local company work, I'm making about the same or slightly more. But, the average that I'm reporting on here includes many partial weeks, which includes a short vacation, taking care of personal business, truck maintenance, and a handful of days with no work available. It also includes many days of only one short load, but business appears to be increasing on a daily basis. I believe my average should increase significantly over the next month or so as more long runs and two or more short loads in the day become the norm. If my prediction turns out to be untrue, then yes, I'll have to make a change.
@@CDLDave23 i wish you the best, i parked my paid off 2019 cascadia it wasn't worth it driving company 70cpm hazmat. Stress level went from 8 to 2