How much does a Lowe's delivery driver make?

Answer 1

Lowes pay greatly depends on location and type of delivery job you are doing.

Salary in Massachusetts is going to be different than in Ohio, and pay in Ohio will be different than in California. The lowest pay for Lowes drivers I know of is around $9.50 an hour for non-CDL drivers, $10-11.00 and hour for Class-B (Box truck) drivers, and $13.00 an hour for Class-A CDL flatbed drivers.

The Highest pay for a Lowes driver I have heard of is $24.00 an hour for Class-A CDL flatbed driver. There may be a Lowes driver paid more, but I have not met them.

To put this in perspective, Swift Transportation pays Over The Road Class-A truck drivers .25 cents per mile to start. The Average mileage new drivers drive is between 2000 and 2500 miles a week and away from home driving for 12 days straight with just 2 days off. Due to Hours of Service laws, 11 hours MAX in a day, no driving after 14 hours of ON DUTY time and a required 10 hour break before driving again. Also, the law prohibits drivers from driving after the have 60 hours on duty in 7 days OR 70 hours on duty in 8 days. The average speed per hour a tractor trailer can SAFELY OPERATE is around 50 mph. That means it is reasonable to only calculate 550 miles per driving day MAX.

Using these calculations puts their wages around 2500 miles X .25 CPM = $625.00 per driving week (7 days) before paying TAXES, showers at truck stops, ALL meals in restaurants, and long distance or roaming fees on their cell phones to keep in touch with family back home. It is easy to see where OTR drivers make much, much less than minimum wage.

Lowes CDL drivers make considerably more than even the best OTR company drivers when starting out.

Even OTR Owner Operators that have bragged for 40 years about making $200,000 a year only take home an industry average of around $40,000 per year. O/O making less than $120,000 a year gross usually fail due to high operating costs of the rigs they own and operate.

The information contained here is from my own personal experience I gained from driving for Swift Transportation, an Owner Operator, and Lowes as a CDL Class-A driver.