questions about truck driving?

30 years ago there was money in driving - not any more. My father drove for about 45 years. When he finally retired he was running Canada to Loredo Texas and making not bad money until you figure meals after you run out of food 3 days into the trip and things like that. At one point he was bringing home about $800 per month after expences. He was home twice a month because he stood up to the dispatchers. If he hadn't he'd be gone for a month at a time. My recomendation- don't do it.

Some local driving companies can net $700.00 to a $1000.00 a week with some over time. I work for a local company and I take home around $700.00. Conway Central Express hires driver without experience. Just type Conway central Express on google and it should come up. He would have to get doubles and tripples endorsement, but that is not hard. CCX they pull doubles and tripples, and sometimes one trailer. CCX is a well known company located a lot of states. They are a LTL carrier (local truck load). They are not union, but close in pay and free medical,dental etc. They have a pension too. I worked for them along time ago. There is dock work involved and they will train and certify you as a forklift driver. I hope this helps you.

I am an old driver of over 40 years, and have owned uppers of 26 trucks at one time... let me give you some advice about the trucking life and what your man is reading and hearing from others.. First of all there is all kinds of trucking job's out there,, some that will keep him away from home for weeks at a time,, and there are job's that will have him home every night and other job's that will have him gone all week and home on the week ends... it is all what HE want and what company HE goes to.

Now as for the PAY,, it goes along with the hours he spends out on the road... home time is not getting paid and the more you allow him to be gone the more pay he will make..

You get paid for driving the miles,, not setting at home..

So if HE is only working Monday thou Friday. and home on the week ends,, his income can be as low as 300 a week... or if he is out for 2 to 3 weeks at a time his income can be a large as 900 a week..

He may have to drive over the road a year or two but keep an eye open for local delivery runs such as with grocery distributors "dedicated routes" or fuel delivery, etc. And yes you are right, you won't see that much of him, too many of these outfits expect you to cook the books, drive a lot faster than the limits and go without sleep, etc. if you want the best runs, which is why my uncle quit and I'm not doing it. That's why our fearless leader (the one with his lips tight on Mexico's butt) has agreed to allow Mexican truckers to drive all over the country in their rigs. So like I said, if he can convert over the road to a local route in three years or so, that would be best. I don't reccommend bus driving, garbage truck is better pay and less hassle, doesn't smell much worse than some passengers, and no lawsuit issues.

truck drivers entering the market will not make big bucks right off the start. trucking companies want to retain their best drivers, so they will give them the best routes/rates per mile, etc before they consider a new driver....

your husband, if he still wants to do this, will have to be careful which company to go work for..for each company treats their drivers differently. make sure he knows that most drivers don't start making money until their 7th year (or so).

Starting out..most company drivers make about 40k a year....and if he is thinking about being an owner operator, forget it...fuel prices are too high and insurance costs are through the roof, so he should stick to being a company driver.

hope this helps..

a million showers are regularly loose on the truckstops, especailly in the event that they offered gasoline.. (flying J truck stops are the cleanest) Tax wsie a Over the line trucker is given a 30 greenback an afternoon consistent with diem for nutrition that he can write off on taxes for regular he's on the line long Haulers tend to consume 3 nutrients an afternoon at a cafe so as that gets costly ,, if he's interior reach he can %. a lunch and consistent with probability be back in homestead in dinner time. 2. They shrink the hours he canchronic so on the main he can likely merelychronic around 500 miles an afternoon. 30 cents a mile is one hundred fifty.00.. if paid by using the hour he might gets a commission on an identical time as he replaced into waiting to get loaded and unloaded, and there are some undesirable long waits at circumstances.. i might want getting paid by using the hour. threechronic somebody elses truck and enable them to pay for the insurance , gasoline etc.. after the cost of diesel doubled it is totally perplexing to make a earnings.. If he drives somebody elses truck all he has to do is carry the guidance wheel and shop the truck between the ditches. 4 interior reach.. some extra suitable companies who do national purely choose to grant you sometime at homestead for each 14 days on the line. that equals to purely approximately 25 days homestead a year. 5 that's a sucky existence , I specific do not omit using over the line .. the only time I enjoyed it replaced into hauling interior reach homestead in my mattress each and every night ,, besides the undeniable fact that it nonetheless sucked

ok tell him this. it is true so u wont be lying. 99% of truck drivers get paid by the mile. 99% of the trucks are governed to run only 65 mph. you can drive only so many hours a day. ask him to figure that up (with him at home on weekends) and see if it comes to what they say you can make before taxes. then since it wont it means you have to drive he weekends and we wont see each other. then let him know that although you like the thought of him making good money you know that him having to be gone all the time will kill us in the end. if that doesnt open his eyes then nothing will.

I think your a little wrong, i work in the port of long beach and almost all of the truck drivers there work from like 7am until we close at 5pm then we open back up at 6 for the night shift. it depends where you live but he could get a job where they have local routes and gets paid by the load whic can vary i think its like $50 per load and the truckers usually come in 3 or 4 times so thats like 150 to 200 dollars.

It's not very likely that he will be home weekly. Yes, trucking companies do lie. If he has a CDL, get him to look into local jobs, preferably a factory that owns it's own trucks. They are usually dependable to get home. Or, if he doesn't mind physical work, go to a freight company. He can make good money and be home every night.

I am a dispatcher and, I can tell you from experience, truck drivers are some of the most miserable people in existence. There are different methods of payment (hourly, mileage-based, over-the-road based, layovers, unloading time, etc...) If he works for an employer that gives him the opportunity to do tons of work (and it is difficult work) he can make pretty good money. But, he will likely turn into an unhappy, miserable bastard.