I feel on that i truly do been 15 years and nothing last 7 i couldn't drive but that was my eye opener to see who was for me and against me its a hard pill to swallow but driving your own truck is better hope you much success
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 do regional intermodal and also local . That kind of $$$ is a dead week where I am . Local guys make $2500 to $3500 take home after fuel doing about 1000 to 1200 miles per week and regional about the same but can make $4000 or more on a super busy week doing around 2500 to 3000 miles a week
@supermarioxs1 thank you. That's exactly the kind of information I've been looking for. I always suspected the pay was low but didn't have anything to compare to. I've been actively searching for another company but can't get anyone to answer the phone or email
@@stevenbrown5332 in the south east region. I’m in Florida , I do FL, GA, SC and NC. I maybe be out 2 to 3 nights a week if I go to NC but the rest of the time I’m home every night .
@@supermarioxs1I don’t do container work but I have similar schedule but I am locked in at 1.5 plus FS and 400-600 miles a day local or running to Indy from NC(home) now and then I’m taking home 3200-3800 on 6 day weeks and a solid 2500 at least if I work 5 days
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.
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!
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.
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.
$2500 as an owner operator is terrible you have nothing left.Thats why you are broke and have nothing!You have a $2 thought process.You need $5k at least a week to get the things you’re talking about.
@tommyreed4220 I've never once claimed to be broke or to have nothing. That would be an incorrect assumption. Money I have in savings/investments and tangible goods bring no value to what I was talking about. I am neither broke nor do i have nothing. I simply started with mentioning how odd it is to be a home owner for so long, only to end up renting again. The purpose of the video is to show guys that are thinking about going local what the reality really is for most local companies. There might be a few companies where you can gross $5000/week, but that's like searching for a needle in a hay stack. The other reason was to keep myself striving to do the best I could and see what happened. Well, it turned out their ad was a bit optimistic.
