My Pay As A Rookie Driver

10-3-18 Here are some more numbers. This goes to my most current week. I think that's my best yet. That was for 3522 miles.

You are doing well. Keep up the great work. I am sure CFI loves having you on board.

Big Scott

Very nice numbers. You've done well. Its funny how you can get by on some pay that you thought you wouldn't be able to. Before my motorcycle accident I made between 55-60 G's a year. On disability which I will come off of when school lets out and work again begins is $18,600 a year. But I'm not homeless and I can live ok on it but I'm better now So I'm heading back out to the kind of work I love.

But didn't mean to highjack your thread. You have done really well at CFI. Kudos!

11-10-18 here are my YTD totals so far for 2018.

These are cropped screen shots from one scrolling report.

Looks like CFI takes care of you. If you don't mind answering what would you say you made your first year. And how much time to do spend away from home. My wife and I have agreed first year im gonna keep my head down and drive worry about everything else after I put a year of driving behind me.

Looks like CFI takes care of you. If you dint mind answering what would you say you made your first year. And how much time to do spend away from home. My wife and I have agreed first year im gonna keep my head down and drive worry about everyrhing else after I put a year of driving behind me.

On page 3 of this thread is my final pay stub for 2017. I started at lower pay than they have now. As of this point in 2018, I have almost doubled last year. Hope that helps.

Looks like CFI takes care of you.

It's a two way street in this business. He wouldn't be turning those big miles and making great money if he wasn't doing an awesome job as a driver and getting along with dispatch.

Everywhere else you go on the Web you'll hear people talk about whether or not they work for a good company, but only here will you find out that happiness and success is really about the driver's performance and attitude. It's not about whether or not you work for a good company. The major carriers are all good companies. In fact, they're all great companies. But everyone isn't treated equally in this business. The best performers get the bulk of the miles and the best treatment, while the lousy performers get way fewer miles and very little in the way of favors.

Go into this with determination that you're going to do everything possible to learn all you can, be a safe and productive driver, and get along with people and you'll have those big paychecks coming in. It won't matter who you work for. It's all about driver performance and attitude.

Yes, I have said many times, attitude is 100%. I have built a great relationship with my dispatcher and I treat everyone with respect. On the one occasion I felt a need to *****, I waited until my dispatcher was in and told him I needed to *****. Afterwards, I thanked him for listening. Just a few minutes ago, I had a great couple of conversations with one of our wonderful weekend dispatchers. She really helped me accomplish what I needed to do today and is getting me set up to run in the morning. I made my delivery this morning and need to do laundry.

I think this is my last pay statement for the year. Not sure how they will calculate the split week between 2018 and 2019.

And this is where I am ending 2018 and starting 2019. This is my pay period ending 12-29-18. This shows current gross pay for the week. When it processes they will add in Northeast pay, short haul pay, detention, reimbursements and any other adjustments. So, it should end up a bit higher. It may be my best week yet. However, my student is doing the driving. We are currently on the load that pushed this so high. It's dispatched for 2815 miles from Hazelton, PA to Centralia, WA. Due to deliver there 1-3-19.

Come get some of these miles.

Here is January 2019. The short weeks are the week I was broke down and the week after. The first week was so big because we had our trip from Pennsylvania to Washington, which was dispatched at the end of the pay week. It was very nice to have that.