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Originally Posted by Anne Marie
can you take home 80,000 to 100,000 per year after taxes driving truck? Some of these companies say you can. I want to know what you all think. 8)
Anne Marie
My team-mate and I haul dedicated freight for "a large retailer" and we earn about 95K per year each. ( They also pay the premium for my family insurance plan... so you can add another 15K to the 95K) We drive 5-6 days a week running routes to locations 400-600 miles from our terminal.
I spend 3-6 hours at home 3-4 days a week - the other couple of days we turn and burn so we don't see home.
We worked our way into the job by consistently saying YES for a couple of years to questions like:
Would you like to work your day off? Would you like to come back a couple of days early from your vacation? You have 3 hrs left to drive, would you run this load across town instead of going to your kid's baseball game?
After we had spent two years building up our "good will" account with the powers that be, we went in and convinced them to give us one of these elite jobs.
My point is that we were very intentional about the whole thing. Nobody is out there handing these type of jobs out to just anybody. Chances are, you are going to have to pay a few dues. Also.. you need a solid work history, clean driving record, and some good solid references.
The jobs are out there. Good Luck.