Quick Intro And A Few Questions Regarding Roehl

So that's how I have come to the conclusion that new drivers are making minimum wage.

David, I keep having to correct the things you post in here. If you don't know what you are talking about, it might be best for you to just listen for a while. Your math is way off, which means that it doesn't teach you anything. If your conclusions are not accurate, why would you keep sharing them with us as if they were going to teach us something?

You gave three examples of mileage pay and then extrapolated out some equivalence to minimum wage that makes no sense. Do you know any minimum wage workers who are earning anywhere near 50 thousand dollars annually? Any decent rookie driver should be able to come close to that number. Many will exceed that number.

Let me show you where you are missing the mark. In your three examples you used three different mileage numbers as average miles for the driver. Then you divided their working hours by 70. That is some dishonest math. Any OTR driver who is doing 2,100 miles per week should not even be close to burning up his 70 hours. In fact he ought to be embarrassed if he is burning 60 hours. I often turn near 3,400 miles without burning up 70 hours. You really need to stop and try to learn something instead of reading all the nonsense on the internet and believing it like you do.

Actually it's fine if you want to fill your head with all the complaints of the losers and failures at trucking. It's really none of our concern. But what bothers us is when you want to try to teach that same nonsense to a bunch of professionals who freely give their time to help new rookies understand how to excel at this career. We hope we can educate you while we are at it, but you certainly are proving to be a stubborn skull full of misinformation. We honestly want you to succeed at this. At this point in your life, why in the world would we encourage you to pursue a career that only paid minimum wage? Why would we devote ourselves to such a career? We teach people all the time that the world of trucking is like the world of professional sports. The best players earn the most money and get the most time on the field. There are bench warmers in trucking just like there are in sports. You will seldom hear their names, and they will never earn the money the top performers do.

You can be that kind of trucker if you like. It's super easy to be average. We teach people how to excel. There is a tremendous difference between an average truck driver who runs maybe 2,400 miles a week and a really ambitious trucker who understands how to get things done so that he can exceed 3,000 miles each week. One of them is content to be average. The other is driven to exceed his dispatcher's highest expectations. You need to decide which one you want to be. If you keep soaking up all the information you are and keep processing it the way you do, you are headed for a very average trucking career. I hope we can perform some sort of an intervention for you. If we can't you are going to end up a very discontent trucker. Don't worry, you will have a lot of great company. There are hundreds of thousands of them out there. Unfortunately for you, they don't hang around here in this forum.