Seeing career advice for 3rd year

I hope you get a great job. Sounds like they'll be getting a dedicated driver.

 

try carhaulin it’s about the only thing that u can make money doing anymore

 

Although I agree that more doors could probably open after year two, you can do better than a starter company after year one.

 

Money is good when you keep expenses below income. That should not be too difficult in your case.

Many drivers (Including myself) have vices and sometimes those vices cost more than what income there is.

As long you focus on building a savings off every load delivered, you WILL and ARE successful. Dog Food all the way to Jet Engines etc and beyond. (I ran out of Alpo near Allentown, I think on the west side... always breaking down 48 pallets into 105 plus small wood or something silly.. for free...)

Myself I can do any trucking. Its fun. Except Dry Van. I get lazy and neglectful just slamming a door and winding gear on yet another potato chip load. Bleah. Nothing against dry van. Its me that I need to provide something like Flatbedding or something where I can feast on the details of a load that has to be done right. Medicine is my niche out of Memphis with a reefer, it's dry van at 60 degrees cooled or heated depending on season. But because it's a million dollars plus and there are a awful lot of predators in that City who will slit my throat in a minute if they ever realized what is in that thing.... things become a bit more... exciting for lack of a better word for me.

Back to those potato chips.

Have you seen the herd of small delivery vans pull up behind a grocery store early in the morning? Stood with the people hustling and stressing to get those chips on the shelf RIGHT NOW as if we are passing ammo to fight enemy in war? HA... it's potato chips. They need to slow down and enjoy the morning. All that stress and running about over nothing but money makes em a dead scrooge.

 

How much can a good driver make hauling cars? (working legally)

 

As @Chinatown hasn't asked you yet, where do you live now? Even though you are free to move, where you live now determines your hiring area.

Also, how much money do you want to make?

 

You may want to update your avatar to include your location.

You can easily make 60k hauling tankers. Get your Tanker & Hazmat endorsements. Get a FAST card and a TWIC card.
Even if you don't want to pull tankers, some dry van companies require both endorsements. (Why? Because they haul enough liquids in 55 gallon drums and IBC totes their drivers need the endorsements.)