is the $150K-300K a year income for truckers legitimate?

I have this same problem, making too much money. My fuel mileage at 33 or 34 miles per gallon, I just can't help but make too much money with freight paying 3.50 to 4.00 a mile.

 

Heck I have been paying the CUSTOMERS to haul their freight just to get a TAX loss.

 

As others have posted 150k-300k is very realistic~Gross money. That don't mean squat untill you know the costs involved.

 

Maybe owner operator, team before taxes. As far as $300,000 that is totally possible! If you have a winning lotto ticket in your truck! I guess they failed to mention that in the ad! There's trucking companies that don't make that much in a year!

 

I know teams that will beat that $300k gross easy. I know solo drivers who gross $300k. I've done $178k solo pulling a flatbed 10 years ago.

 

Why of course it is. Thats why everyone is rushing into it.

These internet cowboys wouldn't lie about their pay. What would they have to gain?

If you aren't making this much, you just haven't found the right company yet.

 

What do I have to gain by lying? If you think I need to lie~Put your money where your mouth is. I'll show ya the 1099~you show me the cash. Put up or zip it up.

 

I can certainly say that the "gross" amounts of all O/O's have declined too much in the last 10 years,and while I have been a "bedbugger" my entire 21 yrs.,I can not say that I am in any way an expert regarding freight rates,nor how to run as a freight O/O in any way. In the HHG,a O/O can still do $300,000 gross,but he #### sure has to sacrifice most,if not all home time,and be with a top notch company,and just like freight...those are a dying type nowadays. Even with a really good company,it is tough to gross $250,000,but is still common for a seasoned mover. It is alot of hard,back-breaking work,and true 1 on 1 dealings with people,and families,and many sacrifices,yet I typically have averaged no more than 60,000 miles a year for the last 12-15 yrs,and have had a few of less than 50,000 miles,with very decent home time. In all honesty...I could care less about my gross...it is my bottom line that I focus on. Hell...my best years in the industry have been the yrs which I grossed the least amount.

 

that is something i always wished an o/o would really do....

and that is actually prove he earned so much money, without someone else having to do it first.......why can't a person that SAYS he can prove it, just "do it".....?? without some sort of challenge...????

seems to me, someone else ought to "put their money where their mouth is", or "zip it".....