Profile For Sam T.

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Transport Craigslist you should be able to find something maybe not $20 to start but $16 then move up after you prove yourself. Good Luck I am doing the same as I type, Mom was sick last 5 months, Now all is good and ready to join the workforce again. OTR is not for me, But just may have to for experience.

Yup, been seeing a lot along those lines so that's my fallback. I simply can't make it on $16/hr 40 hours a week though. With ample OT, possibly.

Anyone able to give an idea what I would make at .xx cpm? I see a lot of companies hiring with little recent experience for around .35 cpm. Trouble is, I can't tell for myself if their promises of 1,800 miles/week are good, or average per diems, or out of pocket expenses. Local hourly I can get a feelfor better. .35cpm seems (to me) to mean roughly $15/hr, no overtime. Which sure doesn't sound good. Anyone able to explain/guestimate that better? Like with a company like Melton or Stevens?

So I'm 25, have a Colorado class A CDL with TX (doubles/triples, tanker, Hazmat).

I got my cdl through Halliburton 5 years ago, where I worked for 14 months as an operator before becoming a field engineer (still had the cdl, but never used it). We did a 2 week drive school that included a a lot of city and mountain driving. I drove pretty much everything Halliburton had, albeit mostly in the country with no one around. Tractor trailer, flatbed, overweight loads, tanker, but mostly straight truck in the form of mobile cranes and box trucks (~50,000lbs). Hazmat of all kinds, including explosives and radioactive sources (little ones).

Then a lot of things happened and now I need a job (lets skip my story and just blame the damn Arabs and their cheap oil).

My goal is to take home over $3,500/month, work days Mon-Fri or similar (Sun-Fri, Mon-Sat, etc) 40-60 hours a week. Be home 5+ nights a week, and get as much experience as possible. I have those endorsements, might as well use them. My MVR is clean-one 1pt ticket for faulty headlamp last year is all. No history of drugs or alcohol anything.

Also, I'm not saying I'm a badass (because if I were why would I ask on here?) but Halliburton kind of taught me to believe I can do anything with a little practice if I try hard enough. If a scared kid could learn to drive a mobile crane with an unfamiliar shift pattern (and the knob broken off) after working 19 hours on 2 hours of sleep*, panicking trying to keep up with his crew, I had better be able to learn city driving, etc.

I appreciate any advice. I want to try for the best slots I can ($22/hr local LTL sounds great but I've only driven maybe 15,000 actual CDL miles) but don't want to waste anyone's time, least of all my own. So far, sounds like Vac trucks or Fuel Hauling** is the closest I'll get, wanting to stay relatively local and make $20+/hr. On the job, I really don't care what I do so long as it's not Halliburton crazy again.

Again, Thank you very much for replies :)

-Sam

*I realize this was very stupid. We were all 18-23 and thought it was fantastic to just frac like crazy being "badasses". Until people got hurt, anyway.

**Blasters also make good money, but seem to all be based 3 hours away from where I live.