Wow thats pretty awesome.
I'm a rookie with Pride Transport out of SLC. We pull reefers. I *always* have a new dispatch prior to completing current trip. All no touch, close to half drop and hook. Grossing over $1,000 weekly.
Best wishes to you.
Dave
So I work at a textile plant and they love being off on holidays or extended amounts of time.
I brought home $754 for two weeks of pay, does trucking pay more than this for a rookie?
Just wanting to know before I make the jump. Been looking at a few companies and doing the course here.
Any information would be helpful.
Thanks
A refrigerated trailer.
Drop and hook means the driver will drop one trailer and hook to another one.
In order to speed up the pickup and delivery process a driver may be instructed to drop their empty trailer and hook to one that is already loaded, or drop their loaded trailer and hook to one that is already empty. That way the driver will not have to wait for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.
I highly recommend applying to prime. Their pay, benefits, and perks are really attractive, and i dont even drive for them.
Ya i was thinking about that. Isnt everyone rushing over to prime for the $700 a week training?
I should have just went cdl after the military, i pulled a 53 foot commo van in the army. With a generator tandem behind that. I'll put in an app tonight gotta work all night anyways.
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
I take home a little over $1000 every week after all deduction. I reset every week too so would say it's good money.
It really depends on how much miles you get and pay..I'm pretty happy with my money :-)
In the 3 months I've been solo at Prime flatbed, my highest net takehome was just under $1400, and my lowest was $900. Decent money is there if you apply yourself.
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I'm a rookie with Pride Transport out of SLC. We pull reefers. I *always* have a new dispatch prior to completing current trip. All no touch, close to half drop and hook. Grossing over $1,000 weekly.
Best wishes to you.
Dave
Reefer:
A refrigerated trailer.
Drop And Hook:
Drop and hook means the driver will drop one trailer and hook to another one.
In order to speed up the pickup and delivery process a driver may be instructed to drop their empty trailer and hook to one that is already loaded, or drop their loaded trailer and hook to one that is already empty. That way the driver will not have to wait for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.