please help me understand, did truck drivers make money or they pretend to make money. my first check is as OTR 135

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449144 发表于 2019-06-30 04:16:23 It’s about experience. A vast majority of companies are restricted as to who they can hire based on experience. Company I’m with wants 5 yrs experience and 5 yrs no moving violations, along with 3 yrs no accidents. No major moving violations or dui in last 10 years. It’s not about what the old schoolers think, it’s about REALITY...

","text":"and there are a huge amount of employers out here that will pay a driver more than 40cpm and added wages for losing and unloading. this mentality of working shit wages juat to start out needs to stop. I'll definitely agree that experiance is paramount and will lead till the best paying jobs, but 40cpm... no way in hell I'd drive for less than 50cpm.","replyToPid":135742}

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614393 发表于 2019-06-27 21:19:37 I never understood why rookies come  in the industry thinking they're going to make top dollar you gotta crawl before you can walk

","text":"that would be because the carriers and recruiters lie to us","replyToPid":133233}

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55605 发表于 2019-06-27 21:52:59 I'll never understand this whole.mentality that old schoolers think rookies have to work for slightly above indentured servitude wages just to pay their dues.

","text":"exactly, this has to be illegal.. for the hours we put in they are failing to pay us minimum wage","replyToPid":133254}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Did you take an advance, plus how many miles did you drive and you have to remember taxes are always taken out","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"I started running OTR in February (after 20 years of bus driving), my checks have been between $800-1200/week. ","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"This makes sense, like Fed-Ex ","replyToPid":0}

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714750 发表于 2019-06-27 22:09:34 I did. they only missed one. but still that is not fair amount

","text":"A lot of companies out there taking a vantage of rookie drivers","replyToPid":133291}

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714750 发表于 2019-06-27 22:08:24 we don't want to make top dollars as first but we want to make humains dollars. Rookies are humans beings. they have bills to pay. they need to eat and they have family to care for remember that please.

","text":" A lot of companies out there take a bandage of rookie drivers","replyToPid":133289}

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614393 发表于 2019-06-27 21:19:37 I never understood why rookies come  in the industry thinking they're going to make top dollar you gotta crawl before you can walk

","text":"because rookies got bills to pay too..!#no brainer.","replyToPid":133233}

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55605 发表于 2019-06-28 11:30:14 and that was what? 40 years ago? back then 9cpm would've been a decent wage. now days its ridiculous for a company to pay a driver less than 40cpm.

","text":"starting first company fresh out of school team driving we get .50 cpm to start . that's .25 cpm  for each of us .","replyToPid":133894}