Newbie truck drivers are out here making $1500 a week

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I haven't seen any numbers that say truck drivers are increasing. But if they are, what I imagine is happening is an increase in parcel delivery like UPS or Fedex.
I doubt that your typical truck driver (that is, the guys who haul large loads across state lines and such) are increasing.

But let me know tho.
Breh, these mega companies are literally hiring like 200 drivers a week.

A company may hold orientation twice a week, each orientation has around 20 people.

And they hold orientation in dozens of cities across the country. And thats just one company
 

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You take out 401k and health insurance that's about 2k bi weekly. If your not living in your moms basement or in the middle of no where there's rent. So let's do some math. 4k take home each month - 1400 rent for a tiny ass apartment that's 2600- insurance and car payment that's 2k. You take out living expenses for the month like food, cable, electric bills your looking at 1k left to play with. And I don't even have kids my nikka. If you want a comfortable lifestyle that aint shyt in most cities.
:picard: 7200 a year on car and insurance? Yall killing yourselves to keep up with the Joneses. Go to the junk yard or auction and find you an older Honda or Toyota and ride it out until you stack hella bread.
 

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:picard: 7200 a year on car and insurance? Yall killing yourselves to keep up with the Jones'. Go to the junk yard or auction and find you a Honda or Toyota and ride it out until you stack hella bread.

Car payment is 350 and insurance is 160 so about 500 a month. Car is only worth 18k but I'm tryna pay it off in 3-4 years.
 

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Car payment is 350 and insurance is 160 so about 500 a month. Car is only worth 18k but I'm tryna pay it off in 3-4 years.
The richest black folks I personally know had me fooled for a long time driving cheap used Japanese cars for the first 10 years I knew them. Now, they live in a custom built multi million dollar home and get multiple top of the line Europeans every 3 years. They were being frugal and stacking the whole time. Mind you, they both have great careers, but it showed me the rewards of delayed gratification. Totally changed my perspective on everything. Not saying you're splurging or telling you how to spend your money just thought I would share that to show you where I'm coming from
 

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Like I said again the the the coli

1,500 a week before taxes is 40 a hour

78,000 a year before taxes

Only on th coli is this ain't anything and there's a billion jobs out there paying that

1,500 after taxes is like 53 bucks a hour which is 103,000 a year


Your basing your cost of living on a wide figure salary as nothing

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You take out 401k and health insurance that's about 2k bi weekly. If your not living in your moms basement or in the middle of no where there's rent. So let's do some math. 4k take home each month - 1400 rent for a tiny ass apartment that's 2600- insurance and car payment that's 2k. You take out living expenses for the month like food, cable, electric bills your looking at 1k left to play with. And I don't even have kids my nikka. If you want a comfortable lifestyle that aint shyt in most cities.
 

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1100-1500 a week is not really bank. I'm at a entry level job right now and get 2500 every two weeks and that still isn't really enough for me to live comfortably. I pay 1400 in rent right now and i cant see myself being stuck at 4-5k a month forever. A dude i know who works in my field told me he makes 9k+ a month. Your better off going to school there's a lot of expenses on the road and truck driving ain't good for your long term health.

9k doing what
 
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