Re: What do truckers actually earn?


Look.

This whole thing is ridiculous. No one is going to work anywhere near
110 hours at McDonald's flipping burgers.
I doubt that anyone in that kind of job working an hourly wage works
much more than 40 hours in a week.
I got duped into believing that Dave C. was somebody that actually
knew something about truck driving.

Obviously that is not the case.

I was OTR for a little over two years, 48 and Canada. Started pulling
open deck (flatbed, step-deck, RGN). Ran a lot of oversized heavy
machinery and farm equipment. Loved it, but was never home. Switched
to driving reefer, OTR. I was running reefer all over the U.S., OTR
solo. From what some drivers have told me, that's kind of unusual to
have long LOH loads in a reefer as a solo driver, but that was my
second job as a "truck driver". I had more home time that way, but
still not enough to keep the wife happy. Now I'm running regional,
liquid tanker. Usually about 100K loaded. I've only been a truck
driver for 3 years now, but a full two years of that was OTR / random
dispatch.

If you want to believe I know nothing about truck driving, that's your
problem. I am a Driver. That's my job, currently. I'm looking to
leave it though. -Dave


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Dave C. <noway@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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