Watching you from the Filipina Pea! Love your honesty and transparency! I just subscribed and looking forward to your future vlogs! Stay safe on the road Chris! 🇺🇸🙏❤️🇵🇭
Awesome Ted《☆》Thanks for the Scoop Brother👍🏾🔔👉🥤🤳I loved Your interview also with FilipinaPea. Take Care🙏🏻I'll be supporting from N.E. Florida aka Jacksonville✌😎☯️
respect amigo :) coming from the Pea's video.. as a prior SP as well.. I wish I had been stationed at Clark :) might never have left! Stay safe out there, and keep the dream alive.
Great interview with The Filipina Pea Bud…Stay safe and healthy and keep on trucking. Hope to see you in the Philippines 🇵🇭 sometime. I’ve basically left the USA 🇺🇸 6 years ago, but ever so often I have to return. Take care my friend 😊
I have kids and grandkids so I will have to come back to visit with them from time to time. I will definitely be traveling the PI at some point for sure. 😀
Hey Brother..old trucker here. Retired 7 year's ago. Fl/GA state line 5 minutes from the cabbage cop shop on US1. Saw ya on Pea's channel. Stay in touch, stay safe.
Thanks. I know there are a lot of drivers making more than me and that's great. I'm just a standard company driver doing dry van OTR, nothing special at all. But this is completely different than bringing home $430 a week as an 8 year supervisor/shift mgr at CVS. I've tripled my bring home and have no residence to pay for by doing this job, that's why I'm able to throw so much into my stocks and retirement portfolio.
As hard as you’re running you should be making more. I was recently talking to a driver from Shipex who said they get one paid day off for every week they run. You’d have two paid weeks off every quarter. Now they do have a pay scale based on miles per month and I hear you on bonuses being bullshit, but they’re worth a look.
Shipex is not the best place they will run u like a dog. Then tell u ur not running the miles. And lack of communication between you and dispatch. Then they blame you for everything that goes wrong.
You lost me at "I'm home once per quarter" wow man, whatever works for you but I run daycab, home daily, 30hrs per week and make 70k annually. My living costs are low and I refuse to live in a truck ever again, good video tho
How many hours a week do you work? If that is 40 hours a week that is decent pay, if you are working 60+ hours a week then you are underpaid in my opinion.
I appreciate the honesty! One complaint… Everyone’s tax situation is different. Showing your gross for your last 6 weeks would have been more helpful. :)
@@MidlifeTrucker-ThomBell from what I know, 60cpm is the going rate for company drivers doing OTR dry van. A few pay more, a few pay less. I'm not complaining. I've never had a job making this much money before.
@@ccrider327591 The company where I work pays based upon everything you do. For example; Empty Miles, Loaded Miles, Placarding, Stops, Holidays, Vacation, Securement & Handling, Detention, Layover, 34 Hour Resets…. Everything. Which makes the printed pay scale look very complicated but it’s not. I love this career. I like you pay video. It gives real numbers. Too many give math that just doesn’t math. My pay videos are probably too complicated. I am getting ready to cut them down to 3 minutes. (That may mean I talk fast.). The expat sounds pretty interesting, too. You hit on something with per diem, and many truck drivers love having a very low taxable income not realizing it will reduce their Social Security when they retire.
What 401k does your company offer? Is it through a low cost provider, offer a match? Surprised the car giveaway wasn't C.R. England. You can tell a lot about a company by Glassdoor reviews. I almost exclusively go there and it's pretty accurate.
I got the info for the 401k but everything (all benefits) are done through a 3rd party and you do all the work. You do it online. I've been laser focused on how I invest my money, so I never signed up for it. I forgot the details of the small match and percentage tbh, it was unimpressive obviously. I take care of my money myself.
$1360 average on my bring home (net pay) my gross is higher of course. As far as I know this isn't bad for just a plain company driver doing dry van OTR.
@@ccrider327591 I can only compare mine. We also need to always compare gross because taxes and withholding are different for everyone. I’ve only been driving since October 2019. My YTD is $79,700 and I’ve driven 103,502 miles. That works out to about 77¢ per mile, W-2, company driver.
whats cpm ?!!!!! thats the big question... chasing andrew jackson was making similar numbes being a few years rookie driver ! only 4 times a year you get a break.. thats terrible.... thought it was every 3 weeks you get 3-4 days off ???? clear this up ...
Not sure what it is now, I heard there's been a change in the CPM. When I started it was 60cpm with the internal camera or 58cpm without. Heard it's lower now. As for days off, it's the standard 1 week out gets 1 day off. But I don't do that. Taking 1 week a month off will cost you 12-14k off your gross income annually. Taking 1 week every two months will cost you 6-7k. So I stay out for the money.
I wouldn’t never be away from my family for less than $2000 a week I’m sorry to say. I know everyone situations are different but making family time sacrifices for $1200 and $1500 a week it’s not worth my time.
Not doing flatbed, and it's not required or necessary for dry van. I check my truck and trailer every time I do stop, rr break, 30 min, shipper/receiver, beginning and end of shift.
I guess everyone will have their own perspective for sure. I frequently get comments about "how bad I have it" or that I'm not being paid enough, and stuff like that. But for me, the perspective is that I have never had the opportunity to make the money I am making before in any of the jobs I have held. It's something I can do, I like parts of the job, and I have been doing it successfully for almost 4 years now. If you have had better opportunities and experiences in your career, then yes you might be a bit disappointed by what's available. It's all an improvement for me compared to my past jobs, so I keep rolling with it.
@@ccrider327591 that’s perfectly understandable, the crummy job I had before I got into trucking I was barely making $290 a week. So the pay was definitely life changing for me when I started making over $1k a week trucking
Look. I did 2 yrs with gp. If a co driver isn't making that 80 to 90 thousand a yr then it's just not worth my time. Gp says one thing and does the total opposite. Thay blame the market but gp does nothing but broker loads so the market doesn't affect them. Gp is a joke just like a mega carrier.
Can't argue with you, you make valid points. I have only worked for GP and CRST so that's all I know. Currently GP is getting the miles/pay that I want so I plan on staying here. If I get a better offer I will consider it.
Yes, E log. And I do take the required breaks. 30's, 10's, and 34's all as required. I will do split sleeper but only if it's absolutely necessary, I don't like those. But what I was referring to is any additional breaks that aren't required. I know some drivers pull over multiple times in a shift, I don't do that. (Unless nature is calling, lol)
I'm getting 58cpm because I declined the inward facing camera. If I accepted that I would get 60cpm. I gave up my residence and live in my truck. I take home time to visit my family in North Carolina about once a quarter.
58 is decent...and absolutely, I would never have a driver facing camera either. Won't do it. They can keep the $.02. You are doing the same thing I will be doing...living in the truck full time. I have 5 years to get done what I need to do. I have an entry and exit plan and will be sticking to that..while saving every penny I can. Whatever I have after that is what I will have. Life waits for no one. When you take home time each quarter...how long do you usually take?@@ccrider327591
You are running hard and averaging gross 1300 a week? That terrible. I run hard at my ltl and averaging gross 2600 a week. GP is not a top payer as much as they claim
That's net. Not gross. But yeah GP pays about the same as everybody else for OTR. The miles are a little low right now. They will get better or I will have to start looking for a job. Nothing personal, just business.
