What's A Reasonable Starting "Salary" For New Regional Drivers?

Posted by neuroticpossum@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 11 comments

"Salary" because I know a lot of trucker(s are paid by the mile or by the load. The ones I've talked to in my area (southeastern US) say to expect no less than $50k or others say $60k.

Aiming for regional instead of OTR because i pay too much in ren(t to only be home once a month.

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Natural_Elk541@reddit

I’m regional (flatbed), about 2 months into running solo and grossing $1800-$2200 per week already. Probably going to end up with $90k-$100k in 2025

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neuroticpossum@reddit (OP)

Okay cool so I could comfortably expect at least $60k for similar work.

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Natural_Elk541@reddit

At minimum… it depends on how hard you want to work with flatbed. What we do is hard work, and dangerous, and I max out my 14hr clock almost every day. I wouldn’t do it for any less money.

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thescartographer@reddit

What company and how long are you out at a time? My company refuses to put APUs on the trucks and our emissions systems are shitting the bed left and right from the idling so I’m looking to switch

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I work for a small private carrier in northern MI hauling new/remanufactured residential propane tanks (driver unload/load with a knuckle boom crane out in the field, but we do drop/hooks at the yard). Only 4 trucks and 4 drivers. I’m out M-F, home weekends, with the exception of sometimes I get back Saturday morning.

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