Profile For Matthew S.

Hi, my name is Matt I started the L/O with Western on June 18, 2015. So far not bad and as always things could be better. I had over 1 yr experience so I started with my own truck, 2011 Cascadia with little over 500k. Truck has been running pretty well so far. Now I have read the post from beginning, and yes, stay as a company driver if you are happy with safe steady pay but realize your earning potential is limited. I took this opportunity to be able to own my own truck but also the ability to control my earning potential and home time I looked into financing my own truck but with my credit, they were looking for 20 to 25percent down. I am making truck payments with no down payment and no financing interest. Now my pay, my first week was short week cause I started my first delivery on Thursday and was only able to make 2 loads before the pay week which ends on midnight every Monday. So I direct deposit pay was $177, after the deductions, I thought they should have pro rated my deductions for that week but they didn't. Second week, my settlement was not registered in the system but I was able to get a $900 cash advance. So when it was corrected, my third week pay was $1700. If you add the cash advance with what I got on the third week, I made about $2600 week 2 and 3 combined. I just got my settlement for my fourth week and it is $976. My truck payment started coming out at week 3. I am finishing my 5th week and this will be my best week, finishing up with about 2800 miles.

I have not gotten to all the details but little snap shot of whats it's like.

Little background about me, 49yr old army vet, was 88M in the military and I was making good money with my last company before I broke my leg during work last November, last October which had 5 pay weeks for me, I took home 5k that month.

So why not stay as a company driver, if no one ever took chances, we would all be company drivers lol.

So when does the pay between company driver and L/P operator dramatically change, when the truck is payed off.

I will be on here to answer any questions as best I can.

Good luck to all