I don't know about a lot of OTR companies but I believe most of them start you out around 2x cents a mile and if you stick around a few years you work up to 3x cpm. In expediting you'll get a 60/40 split from most fleet owners. With $1.20 being a common D rate that means 48cpm or about double the OTR rate, if you take the lower paying split. If you take the 60% plus fsc side of things and pay for the fuel you'll probably net anywhere from a few to a lot more per mile on almost every run.
With OTR, at least during my short stint, you did drop and hook runs every day and used up most of your hours every day. As already mentioned, with paperwork etc. that leaves about enough time for eating/sleeping and gym time would compete with those necessities.
With expediting you'll probably drive about half as much, except for periodic busy times. You can set your status to "out of truck on pager" while you go in the gym or wherever. You may get in and just get through with your stretching and get beeped for a run or you may get a full workout and then sit some more. There are no guarantees but you'll have much more opportunity time if expediting. Some weeks you'd be able to make 4-5 stops and some you may be lucky to go twice.
You'll probably do well to look into options for using the load bars for pushups, pullups and whatever you can figure out for times when you can't get to a gym. Even then you'll need to set your status to on pager and have your cell handy. You wouldn't hear the qc from back at the cargo box.
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With OTR, at least during my short stint, you did drop and hook runs every day and used up most of your hours every day. As already mentioned, with paperwork etc. that leaves about enough time for eating/sleeping and gym time would compete with those necessities.
With expediting you'll probably drive about half as much, except for periodic busy times. You can set your status to "out of truck on pager" while you go in the gym or wherever. You may get in and just get through with your stretching and get beeped for a run or you may get a full workout and then sit some more. There are no guarantees but you'll have much more opportunity time if expediting. Some weeks you'd be able to make 4-5 stops and some you may be lucky to go twice.
You'll probably do well to look into options for using the load bars for pushups, pullups and whatever you can figure out for times when you can't get to a gym. Even then you'll need to set your status to on pager and have your cell handy. You wouldn't hear the qc from back at the cargo box.
Leo Bricker, 73's K5LDB
OOIDA Life Member 677319, JOIN NOW
Owner, Panther trucks 5508, 5509, 5641
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Support the entire Constitution, not just the parts you like.
