How Much Can You Make as a New Trucker? (First Year Pay, Pay Per Mile, Earnings to Experience) 

Extremely lucky!

Mind telling what company?

@@deshyvin western express NE flatbed

@@deshyvin regional

@@newschooltruckin3943 lucky my friend. I’m only OTR flatbed here at western

Is that 0.56 CAD? Which school did you go to?

What company is this? Is it dry van? Or tanker ?

$0.58 starting per mile at Dollar General Fleet in USA. Plus load pay, unload/stop pay, and safety bonuses and yearly bonus. About $75k-$85k/year. If anyone is interested please let me know for referral. Our company is offering us cash for finding drivers since they're short on them right now.

@@careymorgan4817 interested to know too

@@droptozro I’m interested!

So true, I agree

Same in the states. Everything is a write off. Even a ps4/5

@@danielray1484 good to know

In the states only for owner operator, not company drivers get a $5k write off, that's $5k non taxable income, no $5k in your pocket, so maybe $1500 in your pocket

What’s the company? Thanks

I’m gonna get paid .65 cent per mile right out of school. How do I know how much I’ll be making?

@@tiktokatnight7364 that's good pay. If you are working 6 days and then on your 34 hour reset on OTR or regional: you will probably average around 2500 miles per week and should be able to make $80k.

@@garrettrickard - I have a 48 hr reset

@@tiktokatnight7364 that's nice

If they hire you by $ 26 dollars hours. It is good pay. Stay 3 years working. New drivers need experience 3 years better. Most transport looks Experience drivers.

That's good. I'm going to trucking school to get my trucking licence, my first year apprentice plumber I was getting paid $16 hrs as first timer, that salary hour people shouldn't complain

Indeed. You are lucky, if you make $35k , first year.

$75k-$85k/year at Dollar General Fleet. I worked at the DC and after 3 months there they'll pay for your driver school and CDL for a 1 year contract. Getting referrals now also.

KLLM is paying .60 straight out from school.

After 1 year experience when you can apply anywhere else they have to compete to keep you.

I moved from my starter company after 6 months. Keep an eye out for opportunities. I agree with you about being guaranteed a minimum. Too risky in this truck industry to just rely only on CPM

My weekly guarantee is $1,680 in the Chicago area and I have averaged $2,039/wk this year working dry van drop and hook for Amazon dedicated account. It's crazy good money if you are willing to work your whole 14 hours 6 days per week

Its good to know how much is our wage but life on the road is not cheap.

Yeah realistically half of what you make not to mention the true average for weekly mileage is no were near 2800 more like 2100 in the states then after 6 months that drops to 1400 because they hired a new driver and he gets the miles now over and over company after company after company.

I live off of fuel points paid by my company's fuel purchases and pack my meals from home and heat them up in microwave. I sleep in the truck. I don't have any weekly on the road expenses with the way I run.

@@munkandbear2818 make sure you get a weekly guarantee

Hi good day! Can I ask where could I apply as truck driver that they can train me for AZ driver and work for then. I have a G license here in Toronto Canada. Thanks

You have to pay your dues. The money comes later!

What company do you work for and how do you like driving so far?

What company were you working for?

I got my passengers endorsement I'm going for the triple hazmat and doubles I have my class a cdl just obtained my permit this past Friday!

It’s not worth it if you don’t know any jobs that will hire you new

Brian's accustomed to speaking with a volume that overpowers the noise his 1996 Kenworth W9 makes.

Is it fun I want to get into it I might start with prime

@@eagle25311 you know it is fun in its own way you do get to explore and see the world and you will start looking at a different way. But there are a lot of variables that you would never think about to add a lot of stress into the occupation. There's a lot of managed time, crunching numbers, and for me I have a family of four kids and a wife at home and I barely pay all of the bills as it is so that stress makes me always run hard long days. Trucking you can expect 11 to 14 hour days 5 to 6 days a week. One of the more stressful aspects is you have to keep a following distance of 6 to 7 seconds at all times all civilians in their cars tend to cut in front of you constantly and slow down it is quite difficult the past people when you are governed at 65 so sometimes you are at the whim of incoherent civilians in their cars and if somebody cuts you off you have to back off and get your six to seven second following distance if you violate that too many times you get fired.

@@warphonesS22 I've been a 911 operator for the past ten years I do 14 hour days alot but only get about 45 k in my pocket per year after taxes I think I can make more money as a truck driver as long as I can survive the first year or so and then apply with a different company after that. I'm really considering it. 911 is fast paced and stressful all the time and I'm cooped up in the office long hours. I do get home everyday but I can get to that point in trucking eventually I think with a local company.

@@eagle25311 ok i think you can handle trucking just fine. Everyone talks bad on Swift. But they really empower you to be safe, and make money. They pay .44Cents mile long routes(500miles less) .46 cents mile short routes. I average 3100 miles a week good week. 2000 miles. Bad week. And monthly you can earn .01© For over 9,250(in a month) .01© For over 11,200(in a month) .01© For safety score under 20 .01© For fuel mpg over 6.7 .02© For platinum= all categories met in a month. .06© times total miles you drive that month so you can earn a monthly bonus of up to $700 and I make about $4,400 month after taxes. So about $61,000 if everything runs average. Every 6 days out you accrue 1 day home. They usually want you out a minimum of 2 weeks. And don't like you home for longer than 4 days because the truck isn't making money and they'll give the truck to another driver. But simply communicate with your manager and let them know what's going on if you need more time and they'll give you it. From my experience it's a really human company. Not a big corporate robot.

@@warphonesS22 so do you work 7 days a week when you are out

Yes I think so . is hard driving so many miles . cant do it .

Don’t drive?

@@brianjackson3031 precisely.