Truth About Truck Driver Pay in 2024

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No wonder so many drivers wear flip flops. They can’t afford real shoes.

Made 78k last year mon-fri dry van home daily working avg of 45 hours a week. Beats the road and dealing with scumbags everyday

I made a living but it cost me more than it was worth.

Thanks for putting that out there Ike, because we have so many YouTubers telling nothing but lies about how much you can make in trucking, and that's why we're getting all these "steering wheel holders" getting into the industry thinking they're gonna get rich 😂😂

Union concrete truck driver. In n out all day, humping chutes, cleaning chutes ,drums, dealing with people n crazy city traffic.Home every nite. Work March thru December about 75k / 9 months. Full insurance, benefits & pension.

Something we're all forgetting about today vs. the good old days is that there's a limit on how many hours you can drive and the insurance companies limit the number of miles you can drive in an hour. Way back when, if you wanted to make more money, you just drove more hours. You can't do that anymore.

Hey, how many of you guys remember this pay in the 70's ? .10 per mile . We actually made a living on that. Different times.... different pay,of course

Ike, you're half right. My 34 years in this industry. Drivers forget to mention about this. For example, let's say a company driver makes $80,000-$100,000 gross a year. Truckers forget to mention first round of detuctions; Social Security, Life, Health, Dental, Vision and Disability Insurances and 401K/ Company Profit Sharing (optional), Individual Retirement Accounts ( Mutual Funds, Roth IRAs and other types of Investments) Second round is Taxable Income, Federal & State. Third round is Net Pay a.k.a Take Home Income. I can't give you an answer to State Tax, because each State has their own percentage, depending where your home twenty is. Depending if your single (Live out of the Truck and Hotel rooms (That's Me) ) or married with children ( Family, House, Bills, Bills, Bills). Not to mention about Child Support, Alimony or unexpected Bills. I've heard 10s of thousands of my fellow truckers and their good or sad stories. After 2015, I stopped communicating with my fellow truckers, because each driver puts themselves in a good or bad situation and I get tired listening to stupid stories that don't make sense. So get your sh*t straight or get the hell out of the trucking industry, before you destroy yourself. I'm retiring in August 2025, thanks to an early retirement called Walmart Shares, Smartphones Shares and Petroleum Companies Shares. Good Luck, God Bless and Drive Safe Everyone in the trucking industry.

I just thought I'd let you know that I work for CR England on a dedicated route. I make 63 cents mile plus 3% of everything and I'm like anywhere from 1900 and 2000 dollars a week so I feel very fortunate, but I can tell you that you're saying you know, we should be okay with $80000 a year, not when you sleep in your trunk 7. Days a week, months on the end. You gotta keep that in mind. You know, you're giving up a lot. You're never home and so yeah, I think go to our people should make regardless of how easy the job may be. They should make 9200 and a 100 and a bare minimum. Because you're always on the road you're on. Always in possession of the truck and you're always sleeping and eating and s***** in the truck.And that's gotta count for something not just the work you do but the time that you're committing to it

I pull a tanker hauling Nitrogen and get paided by the hour. And make roughly 100k a year

When I started with Schneider I was getting 26 cents a mile for the first 90 days. Because they were so screwed up in dispatch, they starved me out. I became a tanker yanker and was making 75 cents a mile until my son insisted I leave the industry because he was afraid of human trafficking and didn’t want me to become a victim, as a local woman driver disappeared. I did enjoy what I did, it was a great opportunity. I still have my CDL, and now have begun to drive a school bus. Thank you Ike for all the education you have given me, as I learn a lot watching you, and proudly display your sticker on the side of my tiny car, as well as wear your T-shirts. You make me laugh on a bad day! Thanks again! You got my vote!

As a flatbed driver, coast to coast, Cali to Florida, im getting roughly 60 cpm, but, on average after taxes and deductions, im earning roughly 40-42 cpm.. I can average about 600 miles/ day.. but I still struggle on bills for a 3 person family..

The problem is the added 15% convenience upcharge at truckstops. You cant walkout with dropping $20/visit (coffee,water and a juice)

100,000 a year seems reasonable considering you have to be away from your family at least 5 days a week.

You nailed it perfect Ike

Love the videos! Puts me in a better mood at the end of a rough day.

I grossed over $200K last year, after fuel and expenses I brought home about $68K. I have my wife with me amd she doesnt drive, i get 70% of the shipping cost on each load, there are times i wosh i could get more, but we have lived on the truck since Covid and take a vacation at least every 3 months, but you have to save up for that. Im a lease purchase and sometimes it seems like a scam if you run less than 2000 miles a week you make a negative paycheck.

80k today is 58k 4 years ago

No less than 1.800 a week after taxes. Whoever sleeps in their truck worth many thousands of dollar's in cargo. Their life is at risk on and off duty they are in the front regarding that cargo.