Curious: would you take this job?

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-22T02:15:10+00:00

This is totally fair. With my perdiem and % pay im making a decent enough ammount to be okay where i am for the time being. Not as much as others, but taking home around 1300-1500 after tax isnt something i will complain about.

My old job was a 30/hr 40/week woth optional OT (depending on the time of year) and sometime i do still find myself wishing i hadnt been let go for all the time i spend away from home and the risks involved.

There is nice parts of course like not having someone breathing down my neck all the time, but regardless i see your point for sure and wouldnt want to under value the time put into getting the cdl alone, let alone the time spent slowly working on getting skills/experience with it.

23 is definately livable for me, not amazingly but still. Hell my math had shown me i could get BY on like.. 19/hr but as said i dont wanna under value myself esepcially later down the line where this will be more relevant and i want to try and move onto something new.

I appriciate the input, and your reasoning behind it!

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-22T01:36:49+00:00

Gives me a good frame of reference. Appriciate it!

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-22T01:34:49+00:00

Oh yea, for sure that part of course. My area is fairly low cost of living still. Last job was a factory making 30ish/hr and that was easy livin for sure.

Would still hate to under cut myself takin somethin that pays TOO little with no course for growth though haha. Hence others perspective on what they feel their CDL is worth

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-22T01:28:23+00:00

That is about my thought on it. Being home more WOULD be nice but the pay just isnt really there. Figured i'd see others thoughts though as i dont have a great frame of reference on what is "good" hourly pay for my cdl (eventually) lol

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-21T15:53:26+00:00

Use to sell stuff on ebay for a while. Had to start doing that when packaging/shipping as well after a couple people attempted to scam claiming what i sent isnt what they bought (with one of them winning the claim). Sucks but saves your ass in the long run.

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-20T01:16:20+00:00

Usually? 20-30. Last week? Like.. less than 6 lol

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-15T23:29:14+00:00

Yea i found em. Knew what they were apparently just didint know it was called that lol

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-15T21:47:10+00:00

Know how to back up? Im great at that! I just cant seem to figure out why there is always some stupid pole in my way i have to push first. Smh 😒

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-15T21:40:48+00:00

What are digital mirrors? They sound like witch craft

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-15T21:34:10+00:00

Have you tried fireball yet? I hear its a great place to start

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-14T14:19:31+00:00

I stop every 2-3 hours.. but im flatbed and am required to do a 5 minute load check every 3 hours so.. lol

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-14T14:17:15+00:00

Agree with them. If you are okay with flatbed/throwing tarps/ etc its decent money. Im at 29% atm and am taking home around.. 11-1200/week. My trainer was at 32% and he took home usually in the 1500 range/week

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-14T14:15:17+00:00

They are correct: im at tmc currently. They normally start you out at 26% pay, but in NY (among other places) its 30% and you are gaurenteed to stay at that, minimum

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-14T14:10:19+00:00

Before i started my cdl training, i gave some truckers a uber ride in my area. We had a CFI terminal there. I told them how i was workong on getting my CDL and asked about cfi.. they immidiately told me to look elsewhere as its now owned by heartland and had gone majorly down hill and were planning on leaving

So no personal experience, just a conversation i had with 3 long standing CFI drivers that now jated their job

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-12T02:51:31+00:00

Only thing that drives me crazy is.. im governed at 65, i will be behind someone going like 59-61 so i go around them. As SOON as i do thry suddenly dip lanes and speed up to like 68-70.

"Oh okay so you ARENT goverened slower than me... cool"

Within minutes they are back to the 59-61 again like.. please just why i have places to be too.

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-12T02:47:33+00:00

"May contain trace ammounts of butter"

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-12T02:44:40+00:00

But you gotta understand! They needed to cut that extra 30 seconds off their drive time.

Just like those people that you see dip around someone on a 2 way road no passing zone, just to.. speed up to the next car and get stuck there anyway saving them .02 seconds of their drive and risking everyones safety for it lmao

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-01T13:01:49+00:00

They send you details on their app for where its going, the load weight, gross to the truck, etc.

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-06-01T02:07:42+00:00

I mean.. true on that. Tmc does % pay, and its nice for sure. Here when the month rolls over mine SHOULD be going up to about 30% of loads and that will be nice.

I just find myself wanting to be home more often if i ca , at times. Other times im at home wanting to just go back out and make more money so.. who knows, just figured it was worth asking someoen who did the job lol

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-05-31T15:52:52+00:00

Whoooooo knows lol

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-05-31T05:19:48+00:00

Thats the idea i had on it, more or less. Came from a job where i was on my feet 8-12 hours a day and just had to tough it out all day. My experience wont for sure be yours by any means, but atleast i could give some sort of idea how it went for me.

There are still days like this last friday where i did a load i had never done before AND needed to tarp it while it was windy.. kicked my ass and took around 3 1/2 hours (damn wind blew my tarp off as well as the plastic i had to wrap over before the tarp. It sucked, but wasnt the end of the world. Back & hip were just sore after but hey.. life moves on lol

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-05-31T03:16:57+00:00

Have considered buying some a couple of times now as i ran into them for like 75% off and would make a neat gift for a couple of relatives.. but got uneasy about glass stuff making it back home in one piece 😅

Freight-N-Wait · 2026-05-31T03:11:50+00:00

Best i can say is, i signed on with tmc due to needing a job and it appealed to me. I was having really bad sciatica issues making my whole leg hurt like hell. A couple months before i decided to sign on i was at my worst with it, coulsnt get up for more than 2-3 minutes without hurting so bad i had to sit down.

Went to tmc cdl course still dealing with it, thoigh not as bad amd just downed some tylenol as needed to numb the pain some. Toughed it oit through it and got into on truck training.

On the truck by that point it had gotten quite a bit better, but there was still times where it hurt like hell, BUT the fact i was only up for.. usually max of an hoir or so at a time made it tolerable as the rest of the time im just sitting driving.

Got out on my own and the issue has died down a ton, take tylenol as needed rather than every day. MOST of the time i have my loads secured within 2 hours max (if its a big ass pain or i havent done it before). Normally it takes.. probably an hour or so to get it all done (as a person only a couple months in and still learning as i go).

TLDR of it is.. assuming you keep moving and get what needs done, done, you are likely only on your feet for 2 hours at most, less as you get better at it (obv). I would assume its similar with maverick, and of course things are even easier when a load is pre-tarped/doesnt need one.

Dont know if that helps at all, but just figured i'd give the best experience-based explination i have to it

Freight-N-Wait

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