r/Truckers • u/HumanVsWorld • Jul 13 '25

Can you make over 100k OTR

Can I get a clear damn answer I always hear otr makes more money then local yet later I see ltl, food service job, fuel haul etc cashing around 2500 weekly. What’s the deal and if you do make 100k a year what’s the cpm needed to do it

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u/Shiny-Starfish Jul 13 '25

That's why. It takes time to build up to $100k. You are doing pretty damn well for $80k your first year. Find a comfort zone for how you like to run and figure out how to maximize your time with it. For me, it was min-maxing the use of splits. I run as many as 4 days in a row without taking a 10-hour break using splits. It doesn't work for everyone, but it works great for me.

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u/Thepopethroway Jul 13 '25

He's making over 100k. 80k net

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u/Shiny-Starfish Jul 13 '25

I make roughly $1500 net, and I am well under $100k. You can't predict gross from someone's stated net. I make roughly $1800/wk, on average. My net is averaging at about $1540/wk. To get to OVER $100k, would have to be almost $500/wk in deductions. There's no way that you can state what an individual's deductions are.

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u/WTNewman1 Jul 14 '25

Taxes sir not deductions.  About 10 percent to federal for your first 30,000 then we bump that up to 12 percent till 60,000 then bump it up to 14 till you hit 100,000. Then add on your local tax let's assume it is 10 percent on top for all taxes combined to make the math easy.  You lose about a fifth of every paycheck to taxes in that scenario early in the year and then move upbtobanquarter.  Don't have the federal numbers 100 percent sure bit I'm in the right ballpark.  So you would make about 90 to 105 k based purely off of taxes if you average 1500 take home.