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Cluggy619 · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 839 Location: Denton, TX

I know some o/o in the fuel business grossing 200,000 plus...but that's hauling Ethonal. I, myself, haul fuel and ethonal for a local company, and I'm a company driver making about 52,000. Not bad, considering before I worked for them, I was OTR with JB Hunt....glad those days are over, as short as they were. Talk about imposible. :roll:

driverboy · Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 72

Dragging up old threads learning all sorts of info from many in the know, good reading.

That said I am lucky enough to earn well over a 100K a year as a company driver on a dedicated 5 days a week, under 500 miles round trip per day. Surely some will say that's impossible, most likely the sames names that state the excellent living they are making in the industry but you will not if you attempt it. Regardless I consider myself blessed to have my position and it is not typically what the industry pays people to drive a truck.

While not the norm, others I know make the same. Our company has not hired in years and with the influx of new drivers willing to work for peanuts the future may not be as bright, time will tell. Our company is still winning bids on lanes however as others dry up so employment levels have been relatively flat for years.

For the newbies out there reading start turning the wheels to gain some experience and then settle in for more cash once your over the hump!

USMC Vet · Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 113

I think your stretching the truth a bit driverboy.What are you hauling ?

Useless · Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 3177 Location: Canyon Lake, Tx.

dollarshort wrote: The only way you would make anywhere close to that kind of money is to be hauling white powder in the trailer. And I'm not talking about flour.

No, NOT the ONLY way!!! You could make that much money hauling reefers around the country too!!.....ooopps!! diffferent kind of reefer, though!!

tfmotors · Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 419 Location: Oregon

driverboy wrote: Dragging up old threads learning all sorts of info from many in the know, good reading.

That said I am lucky enough to earn well over a 100K a year as a company driver on a dedicated 5 days a week, under 500 miles round trip per day. Surely some will say that's impossible, most likely the sames names that state the excellent living they are making in the industry but you will not if you attempt it. Regardless I consider myself blessed to have my position and it is not typically what the industry pays people to drive a truck.

While not the norm, others I know make the same. Our company has not hired in years and with the influx of new drivers willing to work for peanuts the future may not be as bright, time will tell. Our company is still winning bids on lanes however as others dry up so employment levels have been relatively flat for years.

For the newbies out there reading start turning the wheels to gain some experience and then settle in for more cash once your over the hump!

Thank you for the laugh!!! I needed it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I call BU%#&@*T !!

Ian Williams · Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 705 Location: Northern NV

If you are strictly about the $ you are in the wrong line of work.

Yes you can make good money driving once you get some experience, but barring a working you arse of 80+ hrs/week with zero time off in some profitable niche you are not going to break $100k/ year. Anyone who tells you otherwise is attempting to sell you a bill of goods.

driverboy · Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 72

Short of scanning my weekly paystub and posting it on an internet forum there is no way to prove to the naysayers my wage, nor do I have any desire to.

Regardless to those newbies reading these threads, it is possible to make over a 100K/year as a company driver, I'm doing it. Those that state it's not possible are not making that much, that would be a given. Have to offer some glimmer of hope to new drivers turning to the internet to see what trucking is all about.I do not see the lure of working for peanuts in a dangerous occupation, I would rather work retail/restaurant for similar money and safer worker conditions than 80,000 lbs. rolling down the highway.

Day-cabs, sleep in my own bed, 8-9 hour run depending on how smooth the day goes, minus the blizzard part.

crazyWillie · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 36

BIG JEEP on 44's wrote: This kind of reminds me of the movie with jonh candy ( Armed an dangerous) ....

i love that movie

John candy Wat you haulin here
Truck driver : ROCKET FUEL YEEEEEHHHAAAWWWWW

all this while plowin through traffic

stevedb28 · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 289 Location: nashville, tn

I was talking to a driver for McLane Dist. and he said that he knew of 2 drivers there that were making over 100k a yr. But they have 2 drivers in a truck and they have several drops in one metro area usually. And the work involved in some serious labor. He told me the drivers get commission off of several factors including weight and the price of the delivery. The drop he made at the store I was at was 50.00 and they were there for about 30 minutes and on their way. Thats per driver and they were both unloading even though on their logs one was bunked (whats the use in even having a log book if you lie that bad)? Anyway, I believe that they can make that much as a company driver because I personally dont want to handle that much freight.

blazer · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 118

I know a guy who drives for McLane also, makes good money too but he usually starts work at 10 pm, delivers to fast food joints in all kinds of weather, delivers to New York City regularly, hard physical labor but has a company supplied and paid lumper.

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