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Way back in my youth, I thought about doing it.
If I were going to do it, I'd do a job like Wal Mart or Home Depot or whatever. DC to store. When you deliver to a local business like Central Freight does or whatever, you never know what you're going to find in terms of dock, gates, etc... The stores have docks if nothing else.
It is what it is on that part of the deal. When I was considering this as a vocation, the only thing that I was thinking about was "what happens when you get to the delivery point"? Do they have a fork lift or a dock? Is the dock covered? It seems that with big box stores, you have some assurance that where you are going will have some of the luxuries (lol).I was watching John Oliver last night and he did a show on truckers. Most trucking compares have made their drivers "independent contractors" who get paid by the mile and their fuel is not paid for. If they sit at a dock for 7 hours waiting for their load they are not getting paid.
This is why there is a "shortage" of drivers.
Truckers make nice livings on the pay side. Not seeing your family for 6 days at a time though?
No way to get 110 hours as a DOT/CDL company driver.
Its a hard life. I think Wal Mart (on the commercials anyway) get you home regularly. Yeah but over the road owner operators...takes a special breed of person.Try weeks at a time for OTR drivers; no point in them even keeping a house somewhere, since they will only see it a couple of days every couple of months.
Reason #26 why I support the Mike Rowe Foundation.
“For context, Walmart drivers make more than the average college graduate with a four-year degree. College graduates start out with an average salary of $55,260. Walmart truckers make double that, without the debt and wasted hours in the classroom with a nutty professor. Society sells college as a must. It’s a hustle. For some students, like those who enroll in STEM programs, college is ideal. Then there are the others who spend $100,000 in tuition for some useless degree and make far less than truckers, plumbers and welders do.”
Walmart To Pay Truckers $110,000 A Year, More Than Double Average College Grad Salary
Walmart is raising the starting salary for in-house truck drivers to as much as $110,000 a year and no lower than $95,000, up from an average starting salary of $87,000.Walmart plawww.outkick.com
Depends if you are married to a progressive that screams 24/7 then the job is worth it…Truckers make nice livings on the pay side. Not seeing your family for 6 days at a time though?
Oh? Were you a trucker? Or just a stocker?If you have never worked for Wal Mart, you'll hate it, I did(1986)
Shows right there you know nothing about trucking.Probably will have to work 110 hours a week to earn it.
Another that knows nothing about trucking….doubtful W6, unless you fudged your log book...........
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I’m home every other night.Truckers make nice livings on the pay side. Not seeing your family for 6 days at a time though?
Most starting out don’t make that kind of money…but, 55k to start is reasonable until you get some experience and can find better pay.Some do, many do not. There is a reason that there is a 100% turnover rate among over the road truckers.
Not all of em….Way back in my youth, I thought about doing it.
If I were going to do it, I'd do a job like Wal Mart or Home Depot or whatever. DC to store. When you deliver to a local business like Central Freight does or whatever, you never know what you're going to find in terms of dock, gates, etc... The stores have docks if nothing else.
D.O.T Regulations limit truckers to 70 hrs per week.Since truck drivers are exempt from Federal overtime laws, they will work about 100 hours a week for that, so yes, you're very close. And, like Ford's much touted '$5 day' not all of them will manage to make that.
Um….no there isn’t …. ELDs assure that.Sure there is.
Once a week for 34 hrs.Its a hard life. I think Wal Mart (on the commercials anyway) get you home regularly. Yeah but over the road owner operators...takes a special breed of person.
D.O.T Regulations limit truckers to 70 hrs per week.
11 hours per day, 60 hours per week are the maximum hours by law.Since truck drivers are exempt from Federal overtime laws, they will work about 100 hours a week for that, so yes, you're very close. And, like Ford's much touted '$5 day' not all of them will manage to make that.
