Comments By Newbie78inpa J.

If i lived in Tennakey i would go to Knight transportation. There is more then a few guys on youtube that document their experience and they seem to be really happy. The one guy is 22 and he takes home close to $1,000 a week and he started 6-7 months ago. He shows proof too.

I've been single and dated women with kids. When you are in a relationship your money is shared at least for most people you might be one of the exceptions. Again if you are married and lose a job temporarily i'm sure the spouse will chip in don't give me that ****. When a single person loses a job that's it he's screwed unless he has a savings or can collect unemployment. Sure i can eat Ramen noodles but my bills don't accept ramen noodles for payment.

Mr Newb,

Yes there are a lot of families that share money, etc. but that is largely due to the society we live in today. I am of the same cloth as Mr Bud, and there are far more of us, than you can possibly realize. My wife should not have to work a day in her life. If she WANTS to work, (and she has.) go for it, and do great and have fun doing it! We managed a business in Iowa together, before we made our way here, to South Carolina, so we could be close to her family. She did a wonderful job raising her 3 kids on her own, and she does an even better job raising me right, and keeping me in line. She does more work at home, than I will ever do, and I show her my appreciation on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. Since I have been relegated back to the bottom of the Hospitality management ladder, it is harder, but we can still pay our bills, put some in savings(sometimes) and eat. This is one of the reasons I have chosen to enter the Trucking industry. Will I make the same money than I made before I lost my business? Probably not for a few years, or maybe ever, but it will be more than I am making now, and we will live comfortably. She may join me on the road at a later time, but it will be HER decision, if she wants to. Not because she has to.

Stay safe

I grew up in a house with 2 sisters and my mother we all worked. The bs that women are some delicate flower and can't or shouldn't have to work a day in their lives is exactly that...bs. We need women for female dominated careers. Are you going to be a hair dresser and do womens hair to fill the void? since you want all women to stay at home lol. And it's not just female dominated jobs it's any job. My sister most likely makes more then most people on this forum she is a vp of a commercial lending bank my other sister is an RN. Women don't want to hear that **** "oh honey i don't want you to have to work at all" It offends most women.

Now this is another topic lets not ruin this guys thread. It's my fault i got it off topic.

I've been single and dated women with kids. When you are in a relationship your money is shared at least for most people you might be one of the exceptions. Again if you are married and lose a job temporarily i'm sure the spouse will chip in don't give me that ****. When a single person loses a job that's it he's screwed unless he has a savings or can collect unemployment. Sure i can eat Ramen noodles but my bills don't accept ramen noodles for payment.

Sorry Newbieinpa78, I might be taking out some aggression on you that's better directed to the freeloader living off my daughter. My real point is that as a single trucker, you'll make more than enough to support yourself if you can cut back on your bills. It's all a question of what you really need. And that's an easier equation than figuring out what you need to provide for a wife and children in addition to yourself, which was OP's comment about it being easier as a single guy.

And for the record, I'm the sole support of myself and my wife, and supplemental support for my grown daughter, her son, and the SOB who lives with her. So stop whining about supporting yourself already.

I was never whining just pointing out a myth that single people have it easy because they only have themselves to support. I don't need a lecture on how to support myself I haven't been a child for 22+ years.

I'm not going to get into what you are doing wrong because honestly it doesn't matter to me and will lead into an argument. good luck

Awesome congrats!

Well if he did he must had been in the 4%...and maybe lives in his truck with no one to support... Or he wasn't out of reserve...I think I was going to make between 32 and 35 grand for a 12 month period. Take a minimum wage job...work it 12 to 14 hours a day for 6 days a week and your in the same ballpark...I know a guy can make money in trucking....just couldn't make a whole year for so little pay and never being home....thought I could... Tried...and have to figure out what to do next

I love how people say this because you are single without kids that you have nobody to support. I have to support myself and it's 10 times harder because I don't have the luxury of working with 2 incomes. And if I lose my job I'm on my own I don't have a wife's paycheck to help me out until I find another job. It's a lot tougher for single people.

Newbieinpa78etc.,

I've bee married with a kid, and I've been single, and I've been married again with a grown kid. It's easier to make it single since you don't have the responsibility of worrying about someone else's welfare.

And if you're relying on your wife's paycheck, that's wrong. Call me sexist, call me old-fashioned, call me a troglodyte, I don't care. Men should take care of themselves at a minimum (if they're physically and mentally able) and take care of others if they can. The whole two-income thing is incredibly recent, only the last two generations out of a thousand. You can make it on ramen if you have to, but taking care of someone else is a whole other story.

I'll stop there before the censors get me and my social rating goes even lower.

I've been single and dated women with kids. When you are in a relationship your money is shared at least for most people you might be one of the exceptions. Again if you are married and lose a job temporarily i'm sure the spouse will chip in don't give me that ****. When a single person loses a job that's it he's screwed unless he has a savings or can collect unemployment. Sure i can eat Ramen noodles but my bills don't accept ramen noodles for payment.

Sorry to hear your disappointment Daniel F. It is stories like yours that make me think twice about getting into trucking. I would love to drive but $350 a week won't cut it for me. If you could perhaps elaborate on your particular case and what you think the issue (s) were, it would help a newbie like me out greatly. Good luck in your next job.

There are 10s out thousands of truck drivers out there. I've read plenty of stories of people claiming they aren't making any money but I don't know them personally. Nobody knows what these people are doing wrong they just tell the end result. I seriously doubt these companies want people to quit all the time because it costs a fortune to train and rehire new people along with the cost of these trucks. Why would they want a $150,000+ truck just sitting around? and not just one but hundreds or thousands of them? Doesn't make sense.

Well if he did he must had been in the 4%...and maybe lives in his truck with no one to support... Or he wasn't out of reserve...I think I was going to make between 32 and 35 grand for a 12 month period. Take a minimum wage job...work it 12 to 14 hours a day for 6 days a week and your in the same ballpark...I know a guy can make money in trucking....just couldn't make a whole year for so little pay and never being home....thought I could... Tried...and have to figure out what to do next

I love how people say this because you are single without kids that you have nobody to support. I have to support myself and it's 10 times harder because I don't have the luxury of working with 2 incomes. And if I lose my job I'm on my own I don't have a wife's paycheck to help me out until I find another job. It's a lot tougher for single people.

How much total did you make in 7 months of you don't mind me asking?

I need to make $2000 a month minimum or its not worth it to me. I go by monthly earnings because bills are due monthly. If I make 300 one week and 700 the next that's fine as long as I make at least 2g's a month net.

I think people who make horrible pay the first year are waiting for dispatch to assign them a new load instead of calling them when you are close to being done with the,current load. Those dispatchers might have 50+ drivers they deal with and completely forget about you. That's why I'm calling every time not relying on them to remember me.

Not a bad idea, but it may not have the effect you are expecting. Yes it will certainly show them a "can-do" attitude and a willingness to work.

A good planner knows well in advance when their drivers are expected to be available. They will need to see a consistent ability by the new driver to first conduct your business safely and second to prove that you can reliably make your deliveries on-time without issue. Then you can expect better runs and less time sitting between loads. For the most part the first 3-6 months is a fully paid extension of your training. As you absorb the learning curve, your ability to earn will go up as the curve begins to come down.

Showing them you "want to work" is always good!

I'm just following a suggestion a few YouTube truckers made. They say it's up to you to get on the horn with the dispatchers and make sure they are getting you loads. The one guy claims that from him doing that he is making $1000 a week and he is only about 6 months in. I know not everything you read ,hear it are is true but don't see what would hurt by calling your dispatcher.

I need to make $2000 a month minimum or its not worth it to me. I go by monthly earnings because bills are due monthly. If I make 300 one week and 700 the next that's fine as long as I make at least 2g's a month net.

I think people who make horrible pay the first year are waiting for dispatch to assign them a new load instead of calling them when you are close to being done with the,current load. Those dispatchers might have 50+ drivers they deal with and completely forget about you. That's why I'm calling every time not relying on them to remember me.