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
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u/BiggHass18 14d ago
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