show me 1000.00$ a week net guaranteed....and I will work for youWhat

Drive a paid off truck and take home $3K to $4K a week.

 

There are 9 states with no personal income tax; pick one that's not too hot and go for it.

 

You can net $1000.00 a week pulling dry bulk or hazmat liquid tankers. I usually netted more, but that's a good average. I preferred the OTR, but you can do the same local or regional.

 

Yes, I'm relocating to Las Vegas/Henderson. Love that hot weather.

 

FWIW, I averaged $1181 a week for 2012 and according to Drivers Daily Log was out 271 days. Now that was what was deposited into my checking account, actual cash to the home. I take usually $150 to $250 a week I advances so that's not figured into my average going home. Not pulling doubles, not in a collective bargaining agreement (union) just pulling mostly oversize and/or highly specialized loads. No I'm not home every week or off every weekend but I do get home about every 10 days and usually take 2 to 3 days off each time. This week I'm taking the entire week off because over the past 24 days I have made 3 round trips from Wichita, KS to Everett, WA with 14' wide loads both directions and only 2 days off between each load.

Are you going to come out of school and make $1000 a week net? I doubt it but its not impossible, just improbable. As for the gap in your employment years ago, nothing there to prevent you from driving, the regulations call for 3 years previous employment plus any DOT driving jobs in the past 10 years not 10 years of continuous employment. Most trucking companies won't even look past the last three years, only verify that the past 10 years are included but I seriously doubt they would even give more than a passing glance to the gap and maybe ask you to explain it.

 

Agreed, however most of the companies that pay this well tend to be union. Finding this type of pay at a large, non-union mega company is extremely rare. In fact, most large carriers pay well below this rate. Some would even say that these large companies are grossly underpaying and overworking their drivers. Since the drivers have no representation, their only recourse is to "take it or leave it". The current 98% new driver turnover rate suggests that most drivers are "leaving it", as it well should be. I suppose that the theory of self regulation works itself into the equation; eventually, that pool of prospective new drivers will dry up, as is what's finally beginning to occur. As a result, that driver shortage that we have been told about for the last couple of years will truly materialize. Then, and only then, will the big megas begin to increase driver pay. Up until now, the only incentives offered were "trinkets", such as satellite radios or APU's or a free decal with your "handle" on your company truck. Anything but higher pay. And all the while, these companies have been raking in record profits for both their investors and the company executives. For example, Conway Truckload top execs are making millions of dollars for... one man, while the drivers risk their lives for around 600 bucks a week. The same goes for the other large carriers. Hopefully, things are about to change.

 

Many new drivers don't realize they can make that right out of school, but they can. Most don't realize that can be made with Schneider tanker divisions. Get those endorsements and the money jobs are there with tankers. Quality Carriers hires new drivers & it's tanker/hazmat. I worked with 2 drivers that the company hired right out of CDL school & both made over $60K their first 12 months with OTR tanker/hazmat.

 

A truck payment is 2k - 3k per week?

 

Absolutely, endorsements are key. There is money to be made. Heck once you get your experience up you can make that and more pulling van.

 

To make top dollar as a non union company driver, you must be willing to do what others do not want to do. All drivers can drive a truck and bump a dock. To make more money you must do more.

Local P&D, tanker, tanker/hazmat, oilfield, parking lot, food service, lowboy construction, oversized. The more critical what you do (other than driving) and the fewer drivers that want to do what you do, is what makes you the extra money.