truck drivers must make some serious money

I was making about $1000 to 1500 a week as a company driver, working
5.5 to 6.5 days every week with most weekends off. Drove a new truck on a dedicated drop and hook hazmat tanker run in a Team truck. True Dedicated with only one customer between plants. Not quite a private company run - but close. It was prolly one of the best jobs I had in along time. Company support was great...co-driver was well (I will be nice)-at least he listened and wanted to learn.


I think that to be successful and keep that money you make: you need to avoid the TS and bring your own food. Find a company that actually cares which maybe few and far between but they do exist. Get all the endorsements and a twic. Make yourself as marketable as a driver as you can- do not company hop, get some decent experience in a wide selection of trailers.

 

the guy next door to my parents is an owner operator, he made over $200,000 last year, paid $40,000 in fuel, has a house worth about 450,000 canadian.
he's been driving 17 years and his run's are from toronto canada to texas and florida mainly

 

The only way I'd make 2 million is if they paid me in pesos or yen.....or Monopoly money...maybe wampum....

 

All I did was read the title of this thread....

Based upon that, all I can say is ....

 

Hey, as a truck driver, you get regular paid travel anywhere in the country.
You even get free three-day weekends here and there -- you just have no input on when or where!

 

Every dollar I make is serious. The fewer I make the more serious each one is!

 

Bingo you hit the nail on the head. In my current job (been doing it for two years) I used to average a little over $1,000 a week. I'm home every night and I rarely work weekends. A few months ago work slowed down for me because of a change in suppliers. These days if I hit $700 a week I'm busy, but lately its been going up a little. But I wouldn't give it up for the world because these days jobs like this are few and far between even though the pay isn't the greatest right now. Just doin what I gotta do. And that's usually what it comes down to in this business.