I'd Like To Hear From Some LP Drivers...

Hi Klutch. Thanks for your advice. I know I need to concentrate on my training. It's just that I'll never have a life if I'm slapped with an alimony payment for 9+ years. I'll figure it out. Thanks again!

You need to focus on finishing your training and getting accident/injury free experience under your belt. I’ve read through your other post without commenting but you have to keep your eye on the prize. Look at this first year as an investment in your future and learn as much as you can. You’re not going to get rich your first year, period. There are plenty of really good paying jobs available to drivers with a good/safe track record. If you don’t stay focused at the task at hand you’re never going to succeed. Get your year of safe driving and then find something that fits better.

FYI I make a lot more than the lease driver you mention… as a company driver that’s home daily and weekends off.. so yeah. Focus on your training, good drivers will always be in demand so become one and your have the opportunity to make plenty of money.

Doesn’t seem like your focused on what’s really important right now.

So are you divorced or separated? Made me wonder HOW you could get slapped with alimony?? This is what you DON'T need rolling around in your head, distracting you buddy !......Why are YOU responsible for her craps storage anyways? You sure she ain't just got you thinking she knows her (legality)stuff? lol

Point is putting in the time and driving the miles, you CAN make more $ and get ahead keeping your eyes on the prize....Keep the negative crap out of your head, like the ex etc. And like I learned here years ago about L/O, L/P's, when they tryin' to blow smoke up your skirt on how great they're doin', ASK em to see their tax returns and prove it! hahaha

You're still a newb and it's gunna take awhile to get where you want/need to be financially. Learn the craft as good as ya can, adjust as needed along the way. Cut out the useless overhead and ex's crap especially...You CAN DO THIS !! Just gunna take some time, patience is the key to everything in life. In a year or so, this will all be but a memory...And you can look back and think, 'damnnnn that went by fast!'

James, one, the 40 cpm may just be during training, it may go up after completion. Notwithstanding, consider it being paid to learn. Your first year is where you lay the foundation for your career. At your age, this is going to be your last career, so make it last.

Two, your effective pay is a combination of a lot of small components. It's more than just CPM. Hang in there and soldier through it.

James, I honestly think she is using the alimony card as a scare tactic. You are, at this very moment, bankrupt. You do not have enough money to hold on to an apartment just to keep her 💩

Repeat after me: Let. The. Apartment. Go.

Alimony in NC is dependant on a multitude of factors. One being income disparity. Another being marital contributions.

Alimony has to be requested from the judge in the court with jurisdiction. What is she going to do, if you lose that apartment and everything in it? Sue you? Good luck to her. You cant get blood from a turnip. If you are truly looking to divorce, call a divorce attorney, and do not speak to your wife/ex in any manner other than between the lawyer.

You saw how quickly a person can end their career already. You have been given another chance, at a last chance company. You do not have the mental space to mess around with her stuff. You are one bad phone call from being distracted and emotional enough to destroy your career. Tell her She gets it out in 30 days, or it's abandoned property, and you throw it all away.

Or, you let the apartment evict you, and let them deal with dumping your and her 💩. Again, this is not ideal, but you need to protect your job, and your ability to come through this storm. Stop trying to make her happy if you are really splitting.

I agree with pretty much everything here, focus 100% on getting a safe year under your belt. Then you can reevaluate your position then.

You already had 1 hiccup, with the way the economy and hiring are there probably won't be a 3rd chance. You need to be 100% focused right now.

Hey all. Yeah, I hear all of you. Keep my eye on the prize and just concentrate on driving and nothing else. 10-4.

I'm on my 34 off now. I had a pretty good week of driving, mainly bouncing from Georgia to either NC or SC then back again. We went as far north as Syracuse, NY from Connecticut and now we're heading back to Georgia again.

I figured out something that remote IT and trucking have in common, but is vastly different at the same time. With IT and trucking you sit in a chair. With IT you don't go anywhere, but in trucking you go everywhere....lol.

Once again, thanks for all your advice and suggestions. I really do greatly appreciate them.

Drive safely and I'll TTYL 👋.

Glad you had a good week, keep it up. 👍

"Keep my eye on the prize and just concentrate on driving and nothing else."

Yes sir. Do that and your first year will fly by.

Hi Bobcat Bob. Will do. My trainer Robert has been saying the same thing. I'm just hoping that things will get a little better later on down the road.

Glad you had a good week, keep it up. 👍

"Keep my eye on the prize and just concentrate on driving and nothing else."

Yes sir. Do that and your first year will fly by.

We had a member here years ago who the whole time in training, he kept posting about leasing.. conserving MPGs.... fuel tax etc. The first day out, he didnt swing wide enough and had an accident. Two weeks later, same thing. On his 30th day another accident.

At that point the company offered to put him back into training which he declined and was fired.

Two years later, he wrote me and stated that he finally learned. He should have used his training time concentrating on how to drive better, then later concentrate on a career. You cannot do the career if you cannot do the job.

He never made it back into trucking.

We had a member here years ago who the whole time in training, he kept posting about leasing.. conserving MPGs.... fuel tax etc. The first day out, he didnt swing wide enough and had an accident. Two weeks later, same thing. On his 30th day another accident.

At that point the company offered to put him back into training which he declined and was fired.

Two years later, he wrote me and stated that he finally learned. He should have used his training time concentrating on how to drive better, then later concentrate on a career. You cannot do the career if you cannot do the job.

He never made it back into trucking.

I skimmed through the replies here and Kearsey hit the nail on the head here.

I’m never going to tell you not to start your own business, but just to give you some perspective…if those numbers your trainer gave you were accurate then he’s getting screwed.

I don’t even make top pay as a company driver (in fact, I am at the LOWEST pay rate my company offers due to having less than a year of flatbed experience when I started here), I’m a single guy and I claim nothing on my taxes and I pay for benefits and supplemental insurance, and I take home the same as your trainer does, about 1300-1500 a week. My gross pay (if you include per diem which doesn’t count towards my gross taxable income obviously) averages about $2k a week or so. There are company drivers in other segments of trucking making substantially more than I am.

Idk the pay structure at WE but I figured I’d just throw some numbers your way to help give perspective. I’ve very seriously considered buying my own truck and probably would if I were going to stay OTR long term but I wouldn’t be doing a lease purchase at WE most likely if I did. Just my 2 cents