I am a 26 year company driver for FedEx Freight. For the last 10 years I have grossed over 100k and home every day. I am on track to gross 117k this year.
I run my own truck at landstar this year im at 367k best year so far and fist year with a RGN (7axles) last year with a step deck did 248k. I was out for 38 weeks spent 72k fuel 13k maintenance 4800 tolls 8000 food and miscellaneous 11800 lease fees. No truck or trailer payments this year praise God! I started at prime, just found you love the video grate numbers for the overhead
Broooooo that was an awesome breakdown of the numbers. Thank you so much. I hate to ask but is there any way you could do video on the numbers for just this year so far? Or would that be too difficult because it would be numbers from 3 different trucks? Love your videos keep them coming please! Oh also, you said when your wife was a company driver. Is she not still considered a company driver that you pay? Is it set up differently now? Maybe you could talk about that in another video. Thanks bro!
Any time I’ve talked to people wanting to get into trucking, first thing I do is try to explain how different pay can be depending on a 1000 different variables. Trucking pay is so individualized it hard to know what someone can make. What part of the country you live. Even what city you live in, in that region. It’s crazy. I appreciate you showing the numbers you got though. It is a good gauge to see what someone can make there. Drive safe y’all. If I ever go back OTR Prime is where I’d end up watching y’all and other drivers on YT.
Now that’s motivation right there!! Congrats big bro. Wishing you lots of health and success. I was goin through the hiring process for prime but then they placed a hiring freeze on south Florida.
I doubt there is a million other trucks doing better than you!! I said b4 I was glad I got out of trucking when I did. However seeing this vid makes me think about a return. Thanks for the outstanding vid.
Definitely answered questions that had never left my brain yet!!! Lol great stuff man! Very informative and motivational brother. God Bless you and your family 💯
Not here I’m power only for prime on the reefer side and I’m lucky to see 3500 gross a week. Makes me wonder who your dispatcher is cause the one I got been messing me over on revenue to where I go home for a 34 hour restart and they make it so I’m the the hole for weeks to months on end. Last year was 5 months and I’m already starting out 2024 here for almost 4 months now .
And additionally they giving me loads where I’m forced into having to sit for 24 hours between the pickup and delivery appointment times sometimes 34 hours . I’m about to turn the truck back in cause I’ll go home and starve vs hauling loads for free out here
You guys do amazing videos and it definitely inspired me to go to prime I wish there was a way to get in faster def want to learn more and get more involved thank u again. I could use ur advice on more as well
129k a year how much home time did you have if you didn’t have a life outside of driving that truck then not worth it in my opinion I grossed 110k running ca,or,wa last year and home every other weekend
You dont know how helpful this is i havent seen a video this in depth i dont know if i missed it but did you wnd up showing what you paid your co driver looking to see what is a good ball park iv i wanted to train a family number?
I don't know if you work at Prime or not, but trainees get paid $900 plus benefits (total $1,300 expense to the driver), usually the same is done for spouses, heck, I pay myself $900 too as a lease/op. Don't get too creative in this area, you can hurt yourself easily, for example you train a friend or relative and you pay them $2000/wk because you want to help them, impress them, or whatever, and they turn out to be lazy, bad students, etc but you can't kick them out of the truck because your relationship with them, now you're stuck paying them more than they deserve. I pay everyone $900, they can go make their fortune when they get their own truck, not if me.
We dedicate so much to our jobs. We kind of forget how much we put into this. Honestly, those kind of numbers should be made solo regardless of risk or any other excuse we put on ourselves. But im not exempt to this and is a sad reality we face.
So are you saying for the 2022 Reefer year that after expenses you earned 244k to the bank, and then your wife earned something on top of that, separately? If you were solo what would you expect that number to have been? Half?
He couldn't have earned 244k by himself, that's probably him and his wife, I know because I've been on the road non stop, no time off, I go home when the load allows me to and I'm close by. I've never rejected a load, I take the good, bad and ugly, I shuttle trailers when asked to, do local deliveries when I get to a location and I'm asked to, I repower loads whenever I'm asked to, I train students, I work very hard on having a good working relationship with my manager and his team, it pays off bigly! When they tried to tell me how much I would get paid for moving a shitty load I said "does it need to get moved?, let's move it, forget about much it pays" after that we never talked about money ever again, we agreed on "they dispatch, I move it, period". I go where others don't want to, my gross last year (after expenses before taxes, deposited to the bank) was $160,000, But...but... Not even half make that, why you ask... Truck driving is not about just driving a truck, it's about (after driving): Discipline, Logistics, Good planning Good HOS management Customer relations Human relations (customers, drivers, dispatch team) Clear, honest, succinct and to the point comes with EVERYONE, especially Yourself, developing good rapport with your dispatch team, THEY ARE ON YOUR SIDE. Ask for help when needed. Developing a network of driving friends from your same graduating class, AND TALKING TO THEM, sharing yours and theirs numbers, mistakes, lessons, good/bad experiences, being there for each other, etc... NEVER STOP LEARNING. Note: you can make more than what I've made thus far (I'm getting there) STAY AWAY FROM THE 75% OF LOSERS WHO SAY THERE IS NO MONEY IN TRUCKING OR AT THIS COMPANY (take your pick there) THERE IS, but no one is giving it away, You have to work HARD and SMART, in the end it's all up to you, The opportunity is there, but are you up to the challenge?
As an airport shuttle driver/lease operator, I could run 18 hrs/day, sometimes 24 hrs balls out and get 63./hr. and not have to pay vehicle depreciation, repairs, port fees, insurance? i only paid 12% of each 100. revenue generated for CNG fuel. I could run in excess of 2./mile at a split of 57% to me, 43% to the vehicle owner if just a str8 up % split, not leasing the van at 100. per 24 hr. period. Is why I got out of trucking.
I half to be doing this all wrong. I lease make 60% of the load and barely on paper I'm making money but after all truck expenses and taxes I have barely any spending money
But now that he and his wife are lease/ PURCHASE, they will OWN the truck in 3.5 to 4 yrs as well, so there is more than just the salary. And sometimes, even making great $ teaming at good companies, you are still at their mercy for time off and family functions etc. As an owner op myself, always leased to someone, never my own authority, there were probably some times I could have made more being company. But it's hard to put a price on having the 100% say on your time off schedule. Even if a great company gives you 70-72 days let's say, and I only took 60-65, but difference is, I took the 65 when I WANTED THEM, not when the company said so.....Great job fr8tsk8tr! To each their own!!
The real issue is this guy made prime 1.5 million pulse Prime going sell the truck he just leased for 100k so its really like 1.7 million and he only barely mad 90k
No unfortunately I hadn’t added all of that info in the software so I had to manually set those up. But OTR would have definitely been ideal if I had all the information added! Thanks for Watching!
Hi! I am just studying for my permit. However, I looked at this to understand some of how your pay or income as a truck driver could look like. I am trying to get a handle on the options available to folks. I followed most of the numbers, but still did not actually see it in perspective. I am working on a team if anything. Appreciate you and your wife combo. Would like some feed back on the training process on the view of a female. How was the concept of understanding and applying things practically. Maybe your wife could run a video on that in the future. Thanks for the details.
You forgot the expense of two super strength Tylenol gel caps for MY headache, that was a lot of numbers! Congratulations! Can we get another Trump impersonation in the next video?!
How much did you have to pay out of pocket for the lease you turned in early? Im curious about the perday amount paid out of pocket to get the truck back upto spec.
It is a walk away lease. If they don't fine any damage they are not going to change anything..I had a big bend on the back of my truck, side.step and frame and they charged me $1200.00. I returned my lease truck after 8 months and went for lease purchase
Questions..... 1. I know the normal lease is walk away. The one where you dont own the truck. Is the lease to own walk away? 2. I did a lease before with JB Hunt and I got 65 percent of the linehaul and 100 percent of the fuel surcharge. When i talked to a recruiter I asked if we get 100 percent of the fuel surcharge and was told "you get 16 cents per gallon off your fuel". Which confused me. I said no...the loads fuel surcharge. The amount the customer thinks the load will cost in fuel. What percentage do we get. She said....the 16 cents per gallon. So im confused. Does Prime take all of the surcharge and try to give it back to you as a fuel discount or was the recruiter misinformed and you get the fuel surcharge? 3. If the lease to own is not walk away....what would happen if you tried to turn the truck in? 4. Do you have the option to run under Primes...i cant think of the word atm...but thier credentials? So you dont have to get an llc? I have no interest in running a business but I would like to own a truck one day. 5. Lastly....do you have to worry about your permits and inspections etc or does prime take care of that? ty for any info anyone offers. Great video btw.
No it wasn’t lol. I alone took home the total of $.95cpm actual miles after all expenses… my driver wages paid out were $0.162pm actual miles. I’m not sure what figures you’re looking at
If you divide the total miles 597,407 by 151 weeks that’s 3,956.34. If you not doing teams and you drive the 10hrs of your clock for the whole week EVERY DAY that’s 56.52mi an hour just south of 600mi a day. Doing 3,956.34mi a week at .65 cpm is $2,571.62 IF you not doing teams this is a lot of running but TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE. Still very similar to what he did lease without having to pay for fuel or anything. I’d rather not take the headache and just run hard for a company all it seems is I need that .65. Granted that’s not net so taxes still need to come out. So taking your total profit minus the cost of fuel. Gives you the net revenue which goes back to the average of 2572.16 that was provided.
Why do you feel the need to explain anything to anyone? I'm happy for you..Thats all that should matter and if you are happy...The haters can go play in traffic. Keep doing your thing Driver!
So to make sure I understand the numbers on yuour first lease. For a team you grossed about $2500 per week. So as a solo driver I can expect to gross half of that?
@@angeldedmon Ask Prime to see the rate cons of the freight you carried. If they won't show them to you it's because they're hiding something. Hell, even Schneider shows rate cons to their IC's.
@@ogdriver5334 according to Jason Seymour the head of reefer operations, the rate cons are available every week automatically and are included at the bottom of your settlement and are available upon request.
You say that because you don't know what lease/ops do! You think you and us do them same thing BUT YOU DO IT WITHOUT ALL THE HEADACHES, RIGHT? That couldn't be further fun the truth, let me explain: you want to play it safe, WE ARE RISK TAKERS. You have the security of having that paycheck every week, WE DON'T, SOMETIMES WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO PAY THE COMPANY MONEY. You are settling in for a nice career with the company (here or another ) and collect a nice retirement. WE DON'T HAVE THAT SAFETY NET, WE HAVE TO EARN OUR PAY EVERY DAY WITH NO GUARANTY OF A PAYCHECK AT THE END OF THE WEEK. We also are self motivated, entrepreneurial, learning how to run a business and how the free market, and the freight market more specifically, works, hoe performance is the only thing that matters. We're learning that discipline, organization, etc, along with the rest of the pieces that you have to put together in order to guarantee any earning at all are not an option. We are dreamers looking forward to bigger and better opportunities in the future, what we make today is only a stepping stone to bigger things while we hone our craft and increase our business acumen. No company job can get you that, that why I she many others are happy flying by the seat of our pants and living it. Different strokes for different folks! Good luck to you!
No he's not lying!. Nobody would spend that kind of time to fake that shit. Just my opinion, he could probably show you his actual settlement sheets and you probably still wouldn't believe him. 85% of naysayers and haters are applicants rejected by Prime. 99% of people watching these videos are doing so to get info. He is nice enough to share a DETAILED ACCOUNT. Nobody actually bringing home 5k solo 8k team is watching this to bash people. Naysayers arent making bank or they wouldn't be here watching.
You can break these numbers down all you want you still getting played. The loads you haul on average are worth 15k and they pay drivers pennies. Drivers are the production workers of transportation and unless you're directly connected to shippers then you'll always be where you are.
how long did it take to receive you end of lease bonus? my eol inspection was done Aug 6th and today is Aug 17th and yet still i have no numbers? when i contact leslie who i was told does all the eol number she states that she doesnt have the all the numbers due to one of the guys being out? who else can i contact? i was told no longer then 3-5 business days to complete. thx
What's the hurry? Aren't you making good money already? It'll show up on your Comdata Card one of these days. Focus on what's important, not on things you can't control.
That's great that's a good number. Let me ask you is that for two people does somebody else drive with you? I'm an escort driver for the wind energy movement let me say. And we escort anything that's over size. I make 2 to 3 thousand a week. And if I pushed it I could do 4. I used to drive a truck but I really like the escort business. And I tell you it's a kind of sad thing that an escort makes more than the driver in some cases. The truck driver should be banking the most money.
Wait, what? You make more than the driver? Yeah, there's definitely something wrong with this picture, but, Stupid is as stupid does! As the saying goes... let me splain': If a truck driver, who needs a lot of experience to move those loads, let's that happen to him, he is getting what he deserves.
Prime rob drivers in every way! Why didn't you show you GPS miles before moving the truck to the destination?? You are only paying the bills for them when they are the one should be paying their own company bills! I don't believe in lease but when your IRS bill comes you will realize what's going on because you're going to pay tax on top of what they pull out if you are at 1099 Driver and that doesn't make any sense because you make it while they take it😂😂
Who said it was a one year time frame? If you watch the video the time frame that the revenue was stated is stated several times in the video. Thanks for watching!
You keep saying "net pre-tax" . That is NOT net. Google accounting NET. Pre-tax is GROSS. EVEN if you already subtracted costs (fixed or otherwise). Also, it is disegenious to not point out that this is all about a TEAM driving scenario. I understand you two did fine. But you should take an online accounting class. Learn what Profit and Loss is. Learn what a General Ledger is. Learn how to handle tax evalutions and payments over time. You are just doing simple "back of the napkin" math. ITs funny how much info was "for a hole nuther video , another day". Its too difficult for us to understand, I guess....???