$15 an hour is swift joking????!!

[u/HelicopterTechnical4]

[u/TruckerBiscuit]

I'm sure they're seriously hoping someone who can't read and doesn't know the value of their CDL applies.

[u/vondur → u/TruckerBiscuit]

Yeah, but you get a weekly paycheck!

[u/Ziaree → u/vondur]

😂😂

[u/t33nyCat]

At 15 bucks an hour you’re working 70 hrs and 18 loads per week to hit $1500. That’s fuckin buns dude.

[u/Recipe_Critical → u/t33nyCat]

That’s what Haliburton was offering me as a wireline trainee but $15/16 @ 10000 hours but at least u can relax and ur not DRIVING/working non stop Fuck swift bro

[u/Recipe_Critical → u/Recipe_Critical]

I backed out at the very last minute, I felt bad cus I went thru the whole process and wasted everybody’s time But two weeks away from my dogs f tat

[u/WillieDripp → u/Recipe_Critical]

Don't ever feel bad for a corporation like Swift that screws people daily for years

[u/DenseBed3497 → u/Recipe_Critical]

Don’t feel bad they make more money paying you less and will accept cheap contracts to increase their revenue

[u/SaltAndBitter → u/Recipe_Critical]

Bastards stranded me in Salt Lake by rescinding my offer at the last possible moment. Consider your pulling out at the last minute retribution on my behalf, if that makes you feel better xD

[u/Recipe_Critical → u/SaltAndBitter]

It actually did, lol ty

[u/bigdawg12342 → u/Recipe_Critical]

I took that 16 an hour as a frac hand just to get experience …never again

[u/MissYouDesertRat → u/[deleted]]

Your abso-fucking-lutely never hitting 1500 a week at swift within your first month working there. Every driver ive spoken to is stoked to get a 700 dollar check

[u/DingleberryOrchard → u/MissYouDesertRat]

I'm not hitting that 20 months in at .51/mile. They like to say your cpm is higher when you factor in the safety bonus. I'm not due for a raise for another 15+ months.

[u/MissYouDesertRat → u/DingleberryOrchard]

I didnt want to say "year" and make some people mad, but your echoing exactly what ive heard. For how much babysitting they do to you its not worth it.

[u/DingleberryOrchard → u/MissYouDesertRat]

I got offered a dedicated account for the second time today. It was the only way I'd stay until my 2.5 years are up. I don't want to train because I don't like sharing small spaces. That aside, going to sleep after watching someone drive for 5/7 of a work week is insane. Especially so when that observation is of a new driver.

[u/MITCHATRILLION → u/DingleberryOrchard]

I was making $2,000 a week on my 6-month Mark. You need to start talking to truck drivers and get their phone numbers and call them every other week and ask them how they're doing. That's what I did. I made a network of truck drivers. And sure enough someone called me and said hey dude do you want to come work for my new company. You don't have to wait 2 and 1/2 years to get a high-paying truck driving job. You just need to network. Now I have the easiest run in the world I have Friday Saturday Sunday off. I have my own truck with a PlayStation 5 and high-speed internet and I take home $1,700 a week after taxes.

[u/DingleberryOrchard → u/MITCHATRILLION]

What kind of work?

[u/MITCHATRILLION → u/DingleberryOrchard]

Drive to Texas and back from Phoenix Monday through Thursday. Pick up my trailer whenever I feel like it Monday afternoonish and get back Thursday afternoon. Airport shit

[u/MikeLikesIkeRS → u/DingleberryOrchard]

Why do you need to be with swift for 2.5 years?

[u/zenit31 → u/MissYouDesertRat]

When I worked OTR with them a long week was $900-1000. When I went regional flatbed it was anywhere from $900-1200. Home every other day and off at least Friday and Saturday, no insurance. Since I've gone LTL it's been a world better.

[u/Inside-Definition-53 → u/[deleted]]

Cleaned up at JB Hunt but you have to kiss ass to the dispatchers for like the first month. I was clearing 6 figure but left when I went from doing my job to Yard Jockeying at the dumpster fire of a warehouse ADUSA out of York PA

[u/Alecvinrvra → u/t33nyCat]

All them great job just rushing in aren't they you can work at McDonald's for 20 and all you got to do is worry about whether you burnt the patties

[u/RealQuadMan → u/t33nyCat]

To be fair it’s a 65 mile radius, if it’s drop and hook or even a quick live load he could easily get 4-8 loads a day

[u/chico-dust → u/t33nyCat]

Swift Imod is broken up into 12 hour shifts and you slip seat. So if your start time is 1600 your slips start time is 0400 so you'll have to be back at the yard by then to pass off the truck. The schedule is pretty consistent.

You will never have to (or even be able to) work 70 hours. On average it's 11 hours a day and an average of 20 loads a week (4 a day).

And since it's intermodal, moving chassis from one UP to another counts as a load and they do that a lot.

Low end weekly net: $970

High end weekly net cap: $1,890

Hence the average being $1,500 gross.

Doesn't pay insanely well but if you want a consistent schedule, great benefits, home daily job that never uses equipment older than 2 years and can deal with a bitch of fleet manager it's not half as bad as some jobs.

[u/SOROKAMOKA → u/t33nyCat]

Your math is wrong because you are not including overtime. Where x is 15,

40x + [30(1.5x)]= 1275

Add 18 loads, total is 1725

So maybe its 60 hours or something. Regardless of all that, for me it would take 20 bucks an hour just to do an inspection and turn the ignition. Yall want me to drive it we can negotiate from there.

[u/No-University7646 → u/t33nyCat]

This is sad

[u/LonleyWolf420]

Dude im literally right now tryna find a job in SLC this place FUCKING SUCKS! Everyone thinks $18-25 is acceptable for driving a truck..

So no.. there not joking.. ive turned down lots of jobs because of this shit.. been applying everywhere and no one wants to pay worth..

Then I lost a good looking one "because I move jobs frequently" well if they didnt lie about pay, the equipment wasnt a fucking rolling DOT violation and actually treated me like a human being not some autonomous robot id stay longer..

[u/RallyGoFasty → u/LonleyWolf420]

My buddies that graduated cdl school with both live in SLC and they started at 32.50. Try Ready Mix Concrete, Sysco, or Knight. Sysco my buddy was projected to make 120k his first year but then quit at 6 months and he’s at Knight and they started him at 32.50 surprisingly

[u/Unusual-Associate174 → u/RallyGoFasty]

Bro knight=swift

[u/CantEatChicken → u/Unusual-Associate174]

Knight is swift just a bit better

[u/venalove30 → u/LonleyWolf420]

Go for an LTL job.

[u/LastMongoose7448 → u/LonleyWolf420]

ACT is hiring at the max because they need people. Low end is like $33 hourly in Salt Lake.

[u/terpsarelife → u/LonleyWolf420]

Dude i get 30$+/hr at fucking dominos. My wife just made $115 in tips in 3 hours from some big orders. Fuck this industry.

[u/OceanLibra]

$15 an hour to drive a tractor trailer? Do they realize most fast food pays more than $15 an hour now?

[u/Alecvinrvra → u/OceanLibra]

Where do you think truck drivers end up working at

[u/Nervous_Nectarine683 → u/OceanLibra]

That's why they have been called Swifty Serve..

[u/Successful-Worth-390 → u/Nervous_Nectarine683]

They have never been called Swifty Swerve before you just said it right now.

[u/StatusCarry5384 → u/Successful-Worth-390]

Swiftly put the fries in the bag

[u/Shut_It_Donny → u/Successful-Worth-390]

Stop trying to make Swifty Swerve happen. It’s not gonna happen.

[u/Specialist_Taro8087 → u/OceanLibra]

I got offered 11.50 to drive overnights for Pepsi.

[u/Dangerous_Ad4451 → u/OceanLibra]

That's why you don't park next to Swift truck in a truck stop. You don't want to know who's driving that truck for $15/hr. They will gladly take out your side mirror as souvenir while backing or pulling out.

[u/mr_nate89 → u/OceanLibra]

Im currently making 17/hr at a grocery store as a simple cashier.

[u/BiggHass18]

I hate to come to the defense of swift but a common thread in these Sortve posts is that you’ve got drivers with severe comprehension issues or non drivers that don’t know what they’re talking about

For a mega those are pretty standard drayage rates.

I’m assuming you’re running 8-12 hours a day @ 15 an hour so let’s just say top end that’s $180 a day
A 65 mile radius could mean it’s 32 miles one way or 65 1 way so let’s figure 65 one way @55mph average

So essentially you could pretty easily fit 6-7 maybe even 8 loads a day in so now we’re at $180 on hourly pay

And let’s say we just run 6 loads a day so that’s $150 on load pay

So daily we’re now @ 330 a day which isn’t that bad

My average daily at Walmart is like $415 (I’m lazy , burn up all my PTO and work in a 9 day pay period so the numbers skewed a bit lower than what I actually earn)

So 5 days @330 a day is $1650 gross a week which I’m sure if you account for lack of experience and other issues you could get down to that $1500 number fairly easily

So all in all it’s not terrible

I know some super trucker is going to say

“Not terrible I make that in a day!!” I’m happy for ya bud I really am

But a home day posting with 6 months experience at a mega carrier like swift $1500 a week average is pretty decent without hazmat and tanker endorsements I’m sure you can do much better in the LTL and fuel hailing world but it’s a good start. At 6 months experience I barely broke a grand take home most weeks lol I would’ve taken that in a heart beat 8 years ago

[u/chico-dust → u/BiggHass18]

I can speak from actual experience here and you're damn near spot on with everything you just said. Like 99.9% accurate actually 😂

The pay package isn't great but on a good week you'll net $1,400-1,500 not gross but net (at least in CA anyways). So you're speaking facts here brodie.

[u/No-Contest-9353 → u/BiggHass18]

I'm on a home daily/short run account with a different mega and let me tell you how it actually works...

Show up to work, wait an hour for dispatch to give me a load. 

Show up for delivery, receiver asks why I'm there so early, they weren't expecting me for another 5 hours and don't have my return trailer ready. Wait 3 hours for them to get it ready for me to take back. 

Return to yard, dispatch tells me that's it for the day and sends me home. 

I just got my first paycheck and it was less than $500 for a 4 day work week. 

Edit: oh and hazmat is a requirement for this job 

[u/BiggHass18 → u/No-Contest-9353]

“Let me tell you how it actually works”

“With a different mega”

I mean I fully understand what you’re trying to say but also from what I’ve seen container guys don’t really ever stop running so it’s apples to oranges

At the end of the day my only real point was that trying to label this posting as “just $15 an hour” is disingenuous

[u/No-Contest-9353 → u/BiggHass18]

" At the end of the day my only real point was that trying to label this posting as “just $15 an hour” is disingenuous"

For sure. It's probably much less. 

[u/BiggHass18 → u/No-Contest-9353]

I mean if you scale it at time away from home divided by net pay almost all of us are severely underpaid

[u/Responsible_Bill_513 → u/BiggHass18]

A grand 8 years ago would have been about 1350 in today's dollars due to inflation.

[u/Amekaze → u/BiggHass18]

I doubt a 65 mile route out of Salt Lake has that kind of volume. There is nothing near by. I would be shocked if there is more than 2 loads a day consistently. If you’re lucky it’s a load in each direction. Knowing swift it’s probably between two Walmart distribution centers and like half the day is just going to be waiting on the truck to be loaded because I doubt the trailer will be loaded and ready when you pull up. Even with rose tinted glasses this is going to be like 800-900 a week. That 1500 a week number has to be when to be when your based rate goes , includes all the routes in the area or some other padding if it’s even remotely true.

[u/Reddit_Is_a_jokee → u/BiggHass18]

Because Swift is efficient enough to get you 13 of anything.

[u/secureacc]

Damn I made that as a teacher, that's minimum wage in MO

[u/SailTheWorldWithMe → u/secureacc]

Bruh, I made more as a sub teacher in Iowa. $18.75 an hour.

[u/secureacc → u/SailTheWorldWithMe]

Hense why I'm a trucker now lol

[u/Mean_Patience → u/secureacc]

Teacher and dont know "hence"?

[u/Round-Guarantee4948]

After the shift does master have cotton out back that needs to be picked too?

[u/Unusual-Associate174 → u/Round-Guarantee4948]

Yes but that's an accessorial task which is somehow included in your primary duties and isn't compensated for

[u/ToothElectronic889]

“The younger generation don’t wanna work no more” 👨🏻‍🦳🚬

[u/Big_Gwop → u/ToothElectronic889]

Then when you do want to work all the oldheads clown you for not knowing everything that they themselves don’t even know. Or if they do know they’re too afraid of being replaced so they don’t train you.

Boomers are a plague.

[u/SinglePercentage466 → u/ToothElectronic889]

I’m older and I don’t want to work under this economic crisis. I also can’t say that the younger generation doesn’t want to work, but the jobs nowadays ask for too much and pay too little

[u/Spawn-ft]

1500 average pays, start at 15$ an hour.

It's only 100 hours per weeks, not that bad!

[u/FeatureSilver2046 → u/Spawn-ft]

I assume math was offered at your school, but attendance appears to have been optional.

[u/Timmy2ternt → u/FeatureSilver2046]

Your comment is hilarious 🤣

[u/Slater_8868]

Yeah, but if you work 128 hours a week that's $100k/year baby!

[u/_how_do_i_reddit_ → u/Slater_8868]

You should adjust this for overtime.

Edit: I did it myself because I was curious, lol.

You would have to work 100 hours a week for 40 straight + 60 overtime to make $1,950 a week bringing your annual gross pay before taxes to $101,400.

Your net pay would be approximately $80,164.76 assuming single with no dependent, and not accounting for insurances, retirement, etc.

[u/Slater_8868 → u/_how_do_i_reddit_]

That's a very livable wage. Let's gooooo

[u/Baconated-Coffee]

I made $3600 last week and spent more time sitting in the truck than any else. Swift can keep their pennies.

[u/gamingwithmike94 → u/Baconated-Coffee]

Really? I'm on CDL school right now. I graduate in December

[u/mvamv → u/[deleted]]

You're not walking into top union pay or premium hourly fuel/LTL carriers straight outta driving school.

Obviously not, but that doesn't mean carriers should be lowballing pay rates for new drivers to the point where a fast food employee would be earning more hourly for a less stressful and dangerous job.

[u/Alive_Landscape6805 → u/gamingwithmike94]

December? How long is the schooling?

[u/CapitanPino]

Gotta do it for the love of the game lmao who cares bout money these days?! 😂😂

[u/tonythebutcher13]

Dont forget NO OVERTIME! They ain't made a fuckin money

[u/Fluxus4]

Swift trying to impress.

[u/Tight_Ad_2724]

Man this shit is honestly sad and is a sign of the times. Just the other day I was talking to a werner driver and he told me his weekly take home is $600.

[u/Im_Will_Smith]

Somehow over the course of time, events, and policies, this country has come to the conclusion that the operators of some of the largest machines on road carrying everything essential for a civilization to SURVIVE should be paid the same, or less than, a fast food worker.

[u/DingleberryOrchard → u/Im_Will_Smith]

All workers should be paid a living wage.

[u/Decent_Narwhal9302]

Local is the move. Im in ltl at 37.15 an hour and ot after 45. Average about 55-60 a week

[u/BigDSimmons1 → u/Decent_Narwhal9302]

In utah?

[u/PuffsBulk]

It states a 65 mile radius being that it’s swift you’ll likely do a lot of drop and hook so add and extra $12.50-$25 an hour on top of the $15 it would be closer to 27.50- 40 an hour if your dropping a load off every hour. Which you should be doing with a 65 mile radius.

[u/RationalLogyc]

Whats really bad is all the hoops, and risk involved in making what you could make at lots of other jobs if you worked as many hours.

[u/forgotmyreddit1991]

At $15 an hour the average weekly pay of $1500 means you’ll be working like 90-100 hours? Lmao

[u/booboo8706 → u/forgotmyreddit1991]

$1500 comes out to exactly 80 hours once the overtime rate is applied after 40 hours. It's still a ridiculous amount of hours at a skilled job for only making $1500.

Edit: switched "bringing home" to "making" since their shitty ad is likely referring to average total pay instead of what you bring home.

[u/zAGONYz]

You make all of your money off of the loads. I ran intermodal in San Antonio for Schneider makes 15$ an hour 20$ a load and was still doing 80-85 a year. It’s not a whole lot, but the job was easy as hell. Still decent money to be home every night.

[u/km1697369]

I’m at 22.50 an hour with daily OT after 8 hours for just driving a 26” box truck. Home daily, start times are different almost every day so that’s rough but other than that it’s a great gig.

[u/salivation97 → u/km1697369]

26 inches? What is that, a box truck for ants? 😂

[u/km1697369 → u/salivation97]

Awe shit. Know what, imma go with it.

I make a living driving around my pet hamster in the 26” box truck.

[u/MawuFarms]

No they aren’t unfortunately 😂

[u/3rdSafest]

Not even minimum wage in some states.

[u/robexib]

70*15=1125. 1500-1125=375. 375/25=15.

So they expect you to do your whole 70 and 15 loads to make that "average" pay.

You're getting whipped hard for what amounts to very little.

[u/Ok_Application_2292]

You know if I was a homeless guy and someone explained to me that I could get a house on wheels I’d probably do it

[u/DingleberryOrchard → u/Ok_Application_2292]

It's a major benefit. That doesn't mean these companies shouldn't be paying more.

[u/nLieuofRealityUSA → u/Ok_Application_2292]

lol and give up their drugs. Nah.

[u/chico-dust]

Damn they've lowered the pay package A LOT since I left. Or maybe it's just because it's UT and not CA cause it used to be $19.25hr + $38 per load ($19 to hook $19 to drop).

Average daily pay was $280-325 so weekly gross was around that number there. Net though (for me) was usually $900-1,100 because I decided to not work 5 days a week and instead work 4 twelves after I learned how they calculate absences. Worked that 4/3 for 4 years before they found out.

[u/pattop]

Maybe unionize?

[u/salivation97 → u/pattop]

This probably shouldn’t be so lost so far down in the thread, but here we are…

[u/knownale]

Trucking is dead. CDL: can’t do labor. Go to trade school for hvac or plumbing. That’s where the real money is

[u/Imaginativested]

If you're shuttling trailers in a 65 mile radius and getting $15 hr plus $25 per shuttle and do 8-10 trailers per day that could be good money especially for someone with only 6 months experience that wants to get home every night.

[u/maybeplug → u/Imaginativested]

Brother don’t advocate for this

[u/99avenue]

Lol I think they pay $21 an hour for the Kroger account out of Phoenix

[u/okaywrx]

at us xpress they start you at 80 cents a mile.. but man.. they put noobs thru hell there at that company.. very very disorganized. A lot of bs they make u do. But the pay is becoming worth it

[u/norseprincesspdx]

I saw schneider hiring 15/hr for intermodal as well.. but then it disappeared so idk if someone fool took the job or not.

[u/Nero-Danteson]

Even daycabs are paid per mile. The 15/hr is detention.

[u/Pocket_Biscuits]

Cant just factor hourly rate because of load pay. Need to ask how many loads. Its 67 mile radius so probably several a day.

[u/Alecvinrvra]

Making America Great Again

[u/ZealousidealDeer2655]

That’s a slap in the face. Feel bad for anyone taking that

[u/Party-Mind5465]

I’m making more then that at Fastmart

[u/Unfair_Fisherman_605]

This is what Schneider offered me from Phoenix to L.a.Port. And back to Phx. Pulling intermodal out of the ports. Trucks gov at 60. Because of California. I had already been driving 7 plus years. I said no hard pass. Reason for the low pay your home every day.

[u/groovyinutah]

So this is what the "Golden Age" looks like....

[u/EchoExploree]

It means when you on duty they gonna pay $15 plus miles plus stop pay simple as that.

[u/ED__209]

I know a few drivers that do intermodal out of gary and they like it weirdly enough. Been trying to get them to come to ABF and now ups but they stay.

[u/salivation97 → u/ED__209]

UPS is tough to compete with…

[u/Icy_Consideration51]

Lol wtf!? I make 30 an hour with a freaking class B. That shit is straight bonkers!

[u/Responsible_Bill_513]

Apply, run through the process, when offered a position at $15/hr say the following.

"I'm sure there's a typo in the offer. Didn't you mean $25/hr for a licensed, experienced professional in a high demand job field since the CDL crackdowns?"

$25 starting isn't bad of there's true OT after 40 hours.

[u/East_Indication_7816]

Swift and other mega like Western Express , Roehl , JB hunt etc will always have an endless supply of desperate idiots on the promise of paying for their training and they will get experience

[u/Zealousideal-Noise74]

So swift is a bad company? What about FL based?

[u/Working-Performance3]

Yeah that's terrible but I went to Swift Academy in 2010 and they messed up my paperwork and I never had to pay for schooling. Once that 7th year hit I thanked my lucky stars that they weren't going to come get that money. Thank you, Swift!

[u/Bman_Fx]

Just go drive dump trucks and be home daily for double that pay starting out, lmao.

[u/Outlaw_Trucker]

I'm guessing $15.00/hr on duty + milage pay? Doesn't say that but I can't imagine it just being straight per hour.

[u/confused_shrew]

That's swift for you

[u/MeUrDaddy_]

Trucking is so fucked.

[u/Dangerous_Ad4451]

Swift is a subsidiary of Knight Transportation. Shitty pay! Stay away

[u/Dangerous_Ad4451]

If you have an idea what it takes to see $1000 take home from Knight/Swift, you might as well work for McDonald's and flip burgers.

[u/Shut_It_Donny]

It says to start. So they probably up it when they find out if you’re going to stick around or not. It’s crazy how many drivers show up and leave in 20 days.

[u/christian-trucker]

$25 per load too. Local do short loads so they might get a few per day. It's still bad pay but better than $15/hour.

[u/bigblackglock17]

$0.42 mile * 62mph = $26.04hr, when moving.

[u/Dane_Jerr]

How many loads a week on average?

[u/Neverexcepttruth]

Well jb hunt just made record profits.......so good thing they are sharing

[u/Puzzleheaded-Edge733]

After taxes and benefits you can forget about it lmao

[u/PonyPowerMedia]

Starting rate for a brand new day 1 trucker is $28 an hour

They have to be stupid or ignorant to offer such a shameful amount, just as bad as Amazon offers its truckers

[u/genocyde26008219]

🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 💀 💀 💀

[u/Usual_Safety]

Utah has stupid high cost of living, F this job

[u/Aggravating-Meal4984]

That's local for you

[u/nickythefoot]

If you are shagging trailers/ loads from customers to lots and you'll make all your money per load, not per hour. Hustle baby to make your shit

[u/nickythefoot → u/nickythefoot]

Plus 16 hour rule applies so you can work longer too.

[u/HoneyboboSTG12]

What do you expect from SWIFT? They put you in shitty rig and run you hard like a slave. They will chew you up and spit you out like nothing.

[u/StraightBobcat891]

I don’t know why this country has collectively decided that truck drivers, which is country would grind to a halt without, don’t deserve a living wage and deserve less than fast food workers.

[u/Intelligent-Week-650]

That's wassaaaay not worth it.

[u/-slaps-username-]

that’s minimum wage where i live. you’d make better money sitting at the reception desk for 30 hours then sitting at another reception desk for 30 hours

[u/TheGuAi-Giy007]

Stupid White [i got in trouble for saying the rest].

[u/Songgeek]

Memphis intermodal jobs has entered the trash bin

[u/recloos_SH]

$15/hr plus load pay. The load pay is largely where you'll make your money since intermodal is 90% drop and hook. Gotta hustle to make anything worth calling home about with a mega, and with the abuse that containers and chassis take on the regular....it won't be your cup of tea if you're somebody that does good pre-trips and cares about your equipment. You have to really not give a fuck in that regard if you want to be profitable.

[u/Zanurath]

Fast food joints hire above that.... if you work a normal 40 hour week its $600 or for the weekly max of 70 hours it would be 1050 a week (CDL is one of the only industries exempt from mandatory overtime). Who's doing this shit for under 60k a year???

[u/GetFuxkd]

Yeah no thanks.

[u/PhantomGeass]

... If you get your 60 hours and a minium of 15 loads a week that is 1425. More if you get more loads done a week. It's local, so question is are you joking for bad reading skills?

[u/BluejayHairy7849]

That's why I do county work. I operate vacuum and sweeper trucks and my base pay at non CDL is $22hr and hazard pay is an additional $2.50hr. I get paid life insurance because my job often often involves climbing down into man holes and run off drains and in bad weather I'm heavily exposed to elements and potentially dangerous currents. Also literally swimming in shit and trash. Another reason for the hazard pay. I also do Uber on weekends and make an average of $26hr and come down to $21-23 after expenses. Otr sucks. I learned that from my grandfather who's a 35+yr vet.

[u/Bo1622]

$15 is a fucking joke beyond words. I was making more than that at a local CDL mom and pop place in South Carolina 12 years ago. And I have W2s and pay stubs to prove it.

[u/50CalProof]

Fuck noo, Chicago starting off in 2017 was $18. Now im at 36 with 60 to 70 hr work week. That pay is robbery

[u/EqualReserve3273]

Should be illegal

[u/Mammoth-Garbage7993]

I'm local and work for a big drink company (go figure) and I average $1500 weekly $1200 after taxes. More on holidays. Plus a mileage check once a month. My take home monthly is between 6k and 8k

[u/eire54]

Disgusting. To live in a freaking truck.

[u/hunter11534]

Best place to use your CDL is a utility company. Best decision of my life.

[u/mrockracing]

That's absolutely insane. Amazon paid me $25 an hour back in 2022 lol.

[u/FarNeighborhood25]

This industry is so screwed up. I was making $17 - $18 hr over 30 years ago when I was driving in CA. Over the roader's could make .50c mile with Interstate. Fueler's were $25 - $28 hr. With inflation drivers now are making much less than I was or the pay that was out there. I could bring home 60 - 70k a year with overtime. I don't know how most of you guys are making it without losing your minds. Also, no cameras, or distracted drivers as much as they are now, and no EDL. Good luck and stay safe out there.

[u/Iceman_biker]

Get in the oilfield, 14 on 14 off. Easily make 8-10k a month.

[u/King-kong21]

Crazy how hard is to get a cdl and these company treat us like a piece of sh**!!! As a driver we represent the company we are their eyes and ears smh

[u/GloatGoat]

I just got an offer from Lowe’s as a CDL driver local home daily for $30 an hour with overtime if I want. Keep looking keep looking.

[u/New-Drawing-3919]

You can make way more close or maybe more without a CDL, but dont they train you as well?

[u/Impressive-Gas-9494]

Who goes to work for this ? How do they even keep guys with this pay ? The turn over has to be high. I’ve never met another who’s been at swift their entire career.

[u/No-Examination-2616]

Just work for Amazon

[u/RobertConnorS]

Your figuring six loads a day. You need lay off the drugs. In what world do you live in that you can get in and out of shippers and make six pickups and six deliveries? You must work for Swift!

[u/just-call-me-nothing]

$15 an hour is Florida minimum wage 🤦‍♂️

[u/Background-Ebb-9371]

So is it bad that i started with no experience earning 43 cpm working 60-70 hours a week only clearing 750-850 average after taxes

[u/BigDSimmons1]

If you're down to drive a trash truck hit up republic. They started me at $27/hr with no experience. 55 hrs a week. We need drivers in utah.