Re: Where does Art get his numbers?
- From: Straydog <asd@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:33:48 -0400
(see original post quoted below)
You haul, in car carriers, a carrier full of Mercedes.
Like I said many times, you don't go looking for "average" jobs. You go looking for high paying jobs, learn where those markets are, and get into them.
I've known many people who told me this. I've given many examples over the years. I've known the details, figured out the cuts, etc.
I have also cited examples of waitstaff in high end and medium level restaurants making $200 in tips for a four hour period of work. I've seen people lay down tips, counted the tables that a waitstaff served, considered the start and end times I and my party were present.
You guys just go look up some database and look at average pay and you don't look at the standard deviations. There are real people out there at the high end, making those bucks and they know how to get into those jobs and keep them and from all I can see, they are low stress jobs, easy work, better job security, and the high pay.
You can call my testimony "claims" I'm just telling you what guys tell me, and what I figured out from knowing what jobs take what time, what materials and overhead can be estimated, what they charge customers, and what is left goes into the wallet.
There are all kinds of smart asses in the world that go look up some database and the first thing they look at are the average numbers and they figure, mentally, that that is what all of them are making. The average. Guys who are smart will look at the high ends of those ranges and try to figure out how to get there.
There are all kinds of young guys in the world who think they are smarter than some old guys who really have the extra real life experience of talking with people and living life, and the young guys, in my experience, can almost never be taught anything by the old guys because the old guys somehow don't know anything or are senile or don't know what they are talking about. I can talk authoritatively about this since I was a young guy once, myself, and it was so obvious to me (at the time, but I don't know why) that I knew more about things than guys much older than me who were trying to tell me something. Get my drift?
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On Wed, 17 May 2006, Threeducks wrote:
This is in reference to another thread where Art claims truck drivers make $80,000/year. According to:http://www.ptdi.org/careers/america.htm.
the starting salaries for "long-haul" truck drivers is $22,000-$26,000/year, and average earnings are $36,000/year. This is a LONG way from his claimed $80,000/year.
From: http://www.aacc.edu/cdl/
"CDL-A graduates go on to...
* Drive tractor-trailers for both short-haul and long-haul deliveries.
* Earn $30,000 to $50,000 during their first year, and up to $16 per hour with experience.
CDL-B graduates go on to...
* Drive straight trucks, dump trucks, school buses, and motor coaches.
* Earn $10 to $12 per hour as a starting salary, and up to $16 per hour with experience."
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