The money is not in trucking hasn't been since 80s. We should be able to retire with pride dignity and take care of our families children. Minimum pay for otr should be 200k plus local 125k k plus. You got idiots in office or home making more money. Idc if you sleeping in truck or waiting at dock shop you should get paid. Local there's law says it's legal not to pay Truckers overtime after 40. Only field straight up discrimination. I'm local flatbed by the hour overtime after 40. I blame drivers for taking bad jobs pays.
When I drove flatbed, the company that I drove for offered curtain vans, roll tops and open decks. As a driver, you need to determine what your company is likely to haul before you make a choice. Being on the west coast, we hauled a lot of green lumber. 6-8 straps and you're gone. Feeding the straps thru the rail on a roll top and then fcking with opening and shutting it can turn a 15 minute load/tie down into an hour plus. Tarping sucks... but so does screwing around with curtains and roll tops on "no-tarp" loads.
Getting a dryvan or reefer driver to do more than just opening a door, backing into a dock then running back into the sleeper is damn near impossible. Good luck
Really appreciate this channel, hoping someone can clear up some confussion. In a previous video Ronen claimed that his Cascadias were getting 8+ miles to gallon and this was one of the reason against older trucks. In this video Ronen states that the trucks used in this analasys were gettin 6.5 to 7 mpg. I love the older trucks because I am able to work on them, but I was considering a Cascadia simply based on the performance and fuel claims.
You obviously are not watching the video correctly. He deducted truck monthly payment plus fuel monthly ,insurance monthly, trailer monthly , tolls and bridges aren’t a lot but added so you have to add that’s all up then subtract that from the 27k for either dryvan or flat bed
Love how you explain everything in your videos. I’m in a different situation with my job than the average driver myself, I only move equipment and materials for the company I work for and 90% of it is over dimension. So it’s like pulling parachutes through the wind. So terrible fuel economy no matter what you do or what you have for a tractor. Now if I had to go back to a regular driving job I would 100% suck it up and drive an aerodynamic unit with a rolltite system.
Canada here. 0,45 cad per mile (I'm new to industry, just 2,5 months here). 2000 miles per week. Grain haul, driving super b. How do you think, is it good wage for beginners?
@@twitchbearoutdoors652 all ower Canada - ON, MB, SK, AB, BC. So far I love everything in this kind of job👍 even though I got 4 engine shut down in last 1,5 month I appreciate earning a lots of experience including mountains diving in winter conditions. Waiting for US visa interview on May this year. The plan is to try negotiate my payment after 6 months of exp in industry and having US availability. Anyway, I will try to ask to raise my payment to 0,48 after 3 months of work to check if I can make a deal with my employer 😏 Actually I dreamed to become a truck driver and here I am living in my dream☺️
@@twitchbearoutdoors652 all ower Canada - ON, MB, SK, AB, BC. So far I love everything in this kind of job👍 even though I got 4 engine shut down in last 1,5 month I appreciate earning a lots of experience including mountains diving in winter conditions. Waiting for US visa interview on May this year. The plan is to try negotiate my payment after 6 months of exp in industry and having US availability. Anyway, I will try to ask to raise my payment to 0,48 after 3 months of work to check if I can make a deal with my employer 😏
Yes that’s good and salute to you for not just being another generic dryvan/reefer driver joining the rat race. Most new drivers think those are the only two divisions in trucking
Flatbed loads are heavier that’s on fuel , sometimes you catch nails and bolts on your tires , 1 tire cost $400 aprxm. More downtime with flats, so, plus-minus Dry and Flats are almost the same $$$ Flats more headache but healthier
Flat bed..combination light weight has to be close to 29K to be legal with 48K+ loads. tarps are 70lbs each min 3 on the truck. plus all the straps and chains and associated hardware 600lbs+
If you are trained how to strap items down, then go for it. It can easily cost you your life if you don't strap cargo down properly. Look up "suicide coils". If you follow instruction, you will be fine.
If you are trained by someone to properly strap down loads (i.e. racks, coils, wood, etc) you will be fine. However, it may cost you your life if you don't properly strap items down. Look up "$uic!de coils" (I think my previous reply was taken down for that word) if you follow instruction, you will be fine.
I started with flat bed and still do it.better pay and health. Everyone who says no is to fat,old and out of shape and only gets out the truck to open doors or pull the release pin.most dry van/reefer guys I never even see do a pre trip.they wakeup start their trucks at the truck stop and drive off.i see it every day.
My avg for the past month was 3100 miles a week doing flatbed.most of my loads are drop n hook pretarped.i throw a few extra straps and haul ass.delivery wastes about 1.5 hrs avg out of my day so I try to get to the reciever the night before and don't start my clock until I'm unloaded.
I find that America is like a niche of their own and that they have rather specific interests that they try to meet, that may not be the reason but I wouldn't be surprised if it is.
These numbers, in either division, will seem great to the barrista at Starbucks, some forklift operators, local public librarians and many others. At a 132,000 mile/ work year pace, it will take the new driver less than three months to figure out that he is not working a full-time job only, but two full-time jobs, with a third full-time job as night watchman for cargo, power unit, fuel and trailer, and that while sitting next to epsilon semi-moron drivers who idle their engines all night, every night. The (quality) sleep deprivation will gradually destroy any intelligence the driver started out with, dementia numbers going way up, etc., etc., all in exchange for what works out to be a near minimum wage job.
There’s this thing called noise cancellation headphones I would highly invest in something like that . And being a watchman for your load is on you !! That’s why you have insurance
You like conestoga trailers because you don’t have to pay tarp pay. Not having to tarp benefits the driver and makes their job easier but doesn’t make you more money.
another great video, but. I drive midwest to east coast a bit and in 1 month had 1000 bucks in tolls. Is that normal, no. But if you drive Ill, Ind, Oh, NY and Ma on a trip you will pay big tolls.
Worst ever comparison I have seen in my life. Company owners always hate owner operators they want company drivers to use as slave. Do not listen to these kind of comparisons. Owner operators are making far batter than company driver & entire industry knows it.
Great video but however, you be lucky to get 6000 miles a month. The loads are not paying that much right now. So basically I see you have to cut all the numbers you told us in half.🙏🏽🚛🇺🇸, the market is over saturated we don’t need any more drivers anymore. People getting in is more drivers than work right now.
I think he made a mistake in the video, Why is the company driver getting fuel deduction and insurance? 4k seems kinda low if you're getting .65 a mile. I live in Ontario Canada and most companies are paying between .55 to .60 a mile not .65 unless it's flatbed. They don't even want to pay that much for flatbed. Then you have companied paying .41 to .47 a mile. Occasionally i see job posting offering .30 a mile for team but i just block them that's waste of my time.
@@classicxl gotcha man well I'm in the US and if you're in a big metro city that's the go to CDL job that pays the most and you're home every night. Even before getting my CDL I wanted to be local LTL but would hire me due to experience so I went regional unfortunately for about 9 months which where not that great due to low pay and a lot of time not payed because of the beautiful thing the trucking industry has called CPM pay lol
$1800 more a month to be securing loads in the heat or the freezing temperatures? That's to the company driver call to make, mean while with a used pre emission truck and a cheap dry van probably making more than double of that 😂😂 i think romen meed to make 2 types of videos, one for big fleets and others one for small fleet or single member fleet because their is not 1 formula for everyone
I run 31-3200 miles a week flatbed 🤣 I never wait for loads.they are preloaded.i throw some extra straps and haul ass.i get to the reciever the night before. So I don't have to start my clock until I'm unloaded wich takes 1.5 hrs on avg. I gotta roll a few straps and couple tarps big deal.most the places we deliver to are closed weekends for deliveries so my company guarantees weekends home and does a dam good job getting everyone home friday.i take on extra loads and run the weekends. Nothing like starting your week with an extra 800-1000 miles and just run on recap for weeks then take 5 days off.
I’ll tell you where the money isn’t at in 2024, Mickey Mouse cookie cutter general freight loads, whether that be flatbed or van. You love to crunch all these numbers and compare statistics but you have no experience in specialized loads. There’s levels to this game my friend. You wanna dog long nose trucks as unpractical as if the only freight out there is the rinky dink loads y’all run. Those numbers make sense in your little lane but like I said there are levels to the game
But you said, the next pay BEFORE taxes, if u make more revenue, you pay more in taxes. So technically the flatbed driver makes the same as a van driver, (if not less) after taxes are we paid!