Why would they say such a thing if it's not even close.
Well, gee, I don't know. I don't know who "they" is, what carrier they work for, if "they" is the recruiter or the fleet owner, and I don't know everything that Leo posted in Post #5, followed up by Wolfeman in Post #6. Are you getting 40% on a 60/40 split, or is it 50/50, or 70/30? Is the line haul a flat rate or a percentage? Are you going to be out 3 weeks and then home 1 (working 39 weeks and off 13 weeks), or are you going to be out 3 months and then home 1 week (working working roughly 48 weeks and then off 4 weeks)? The difference can be significant over the course of 6 months, and then averaged per week.
It's pretty simple, if you tell a man he'll make xxx amount and gets out there and only makes x amount, my 3rd week will be spent headed homeward
In that case, it's even simpler than you think - you aren't ready to be an expediter, as you don't have the temperament, patience or attitude to be successful. You want a guarantee, and there's no such thing out here. You could come out and the first week pay to the truck could be $750, then $1000 the next week, then the third week $900, where you've already given up and are heading home. But the 4th week could be $3000 and then $2500 the next, but you would have given up already.
It's not about what you make week to week, it's what you average over a month, a quarter, a year. And the bulk of that depends directly on how many weeks over the course of a year that you are out on the road, in-service and available for loads. If you stay in-service 48-50 weeks a year and turn down few loads, yeah, you can make $1000 per.
Based on the mountain of information you have provided, I have no friggin' clue what you can make, and neither does anyone else, which is why you got the answer you got. I put numbers out there to (a) get your reaction, (b) get some more information out of you, and (c) to get others to throw some numbers that out there, too.
