The growing shortage of truck drivers in the United States shows that truck drivers do not currently make enough money—if they pay balanced out the negative aspects of the job, more and more people would sign up to be truckers. Feb 01, 2017 Trucker Wayne reveals the truth about truck driver pay and how to make money as a driver. If you are thinking about trucking, watch this video first to find out where the money's at. Average truck driver pay per mile is between 28 and 40 cents per mile. Most drivers complete between 2,000 and 3,000 miles per week. That translates into average weekly pay ranging from $560 to $1,200. Example of multimedia authoring software pdf. If you drove all 52 weeks in a year at those rates, you would earn between $29,120 and $62,400. And just like myself and the majority of us out there. It would be very rare to find a company to pay us stand by time, or on call time.the company needs to make money to and the overhead is a lot to maintain these truck, tech's working on them, office workers, fuel, utiltys, advertising,ect.
ok im in florida my husbands boss clames hes not making anything off the guys i have a aunt working in his office and she can hear things from her office and its a huge lie hes making it good enough that he just had a house built for two of his kids and bought tree new tow trucks and much more tell me hes hurting too yeah right and here in florida the AAA is crap they pay the company $24 a call and my hubby gets $7 for the call and he gets 25% of the tow wow not crap if the call dosent go but 3 miles and his hours shouldnt be aloud this is his hours a week he has to be in his truck at 7 am and its a free for all till 5pm meaning all the drivers just grab the calls as they come in that time fram but even if you are not busy you have to stay in your truck and you dont make any money unless you are running calls then from 5pm to 7am you have it set to you are in line to be called out if needed so if thee is 5 drivers it is the 1st driver is oncall meaning that guy is running 7am to 7am the 2nd driver is backup meaning he also is normaly 7am to 7am then you have 3rd he is from 7am to anywhere but mostly hes done by midnight but still can be called out till 7am same with 4th but 5th he is the guy who will be on the next day for the 24 hr shift and he still can get called out but that oncall driver knows what hes going to have to do the next day and trys not to call him out but there are those times you just cant help it and you have to call him out oh and all the drivers but that 1st one have to be back in to work at 7am the next day no matter what time you was out to the night before and even tho you worked a 24hr shift and was stuck to that truck all day you may may have only ran 18 calls wich comes out to $126 for the 24hrs with no sleep or food cause you can forget getting food cause your truck cant go threw drivetrus and there job is not the safes they can get hit by a car while working
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