Dunavant; $200k yearly??

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  1. Zonno

    Zonno Light Load Member

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    https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Dunavant...romjk=f282677109092321&attributionid=mobvjcmp

    Saw this on Indeed, and they claim $200k annually. I’d never heard of them before now, they’re OTR, and they only have 5 reviews, none of them from drivers. What’s the catch? Is this type of pay too good to be true? I prefer staying local (I’m currently driving a tractor-trailer dump), but for this type of pay, I might be willing to go OTR once I got the required exp. (15 months).
     
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  3. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    It's owner operator job.

    Once you pay all your expenses you'll probably earn less than a noob in training at Western Express.
     
  4. Zonno

    Zonno Light Load Member

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    I checked to see if it was O/O, but somehow missed it. That explains it.

    [It says it right at the top. I didn’t see it. :eek: ]
     
  5. Arctic_fox

    Arctic_fox Experienced mx13 execrator

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    Yea thats pretty poor pay no matter how you slice it. Even at 5,500 a week X 52 weeks only gets $286,000. Home daily also likely means your going to be maxing out your hours ever day. Call it 10 hours of driving X 48 hours lets be conservitive and say 500 miles a day 5 days a week. Thats 130k miles. Devide that by lets be nice and say 7mpg call it 18,500 gallons a year at 4.5 a gallon and assumeing low average diesel to account for a fuel surcharge. Then your at $83,250 in fuel

    So 286k is now 203K, remove a truck and trailer payment of say $2800 a month, so 203,000-33600 call it $170,000. Remove 13k more for insurance a year 157K now. Figure a monthly oil change, grease job apu oil change and general truck supplies of $1000 a month. $145,000 now

    Take off $5000 a year for tires $140,000 throw on $25K as a general yearly repairs on the truck, broken lights bad water pumps overheads ect. $120,000.

    Set aside $10,000 a year to build up a new truck payment or for a major "oh ####" like a wreck, medical issue, blown motor ect down to $110,000 now. Put aside another $3000 for yearly fees like tax prep, tags, a couple minor tickets ect $107K.

    And i could keep going but i think you get the point lol id be suprised if an O/O keeps much more then $50-60K after all expenses and taxes on a good year. Could be better with less miles then im assumeing or a way better fuel surcharge and no truck+trailer payment but.....thats a pretty crappy gig at a blush.

    Oh and this is assumeing absolute max pay. If we do that same math at the lower value....heh i could make more at mcdonalds working less hours and none of the stress.
     
  6. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    Never believe the "up to" pay.

    I've seen the lines getting into container yards.
    Go luck being productive dealing with that.
     
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  7. Allow Me.

    Allow Me. Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    $200 grand a year ? Working Mon-Fri ? Working the ports ? Home nightly? Can you say "fantasyland" ?
     
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  8. KaoMinerva

    KaoMinerva Transcendent God

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    Man the way you broke this down really makes being a company driver right now the safe bet. Those big gross numbers really dwindle down after the business is taken care of. Then you factor in the IF it's a "good" year without a MAJOR repair.
     
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  9. Eddiec

    Eddiec Road Train Member

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    This is an owner operator position hauling containers. So $200K breaks down to $3,846 per week minus expenses such as fuel, maintenance, taxes, permitting, etc. The only company driver jobs that are even within a sniff of 200K are UPS, Wal-Mart and maybe specialized haulers and that would be top scale.

    https://www.dunavant.com/drive-for-dunavant
     
  10. Gomer1969

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    Walmart doesn't even come close to $200,000 a year! Good lord Walmart has drivers completely brain washed into thinking it's the best driving job on the road.
     
  11. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    Please see @Arctic_fox post above. $200,000 gross as an OO breaks down to $80,000 (max) as a company driver.
     
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