Thinking of making the move to tankers.

I haul HazMat waste. There's great money in that. I never get paid mileage. It's percentage pay plus Stand By after 2 hours, and there's always Stand By while the sample is being screened and I wait 3-8 hours to unload. Since incinerators are usually long distances away, I'm gone Monday through Friday. It happens to work out for me where I'm home on weekends. Except for this weekend since I pre loaded Friday to unload Monday. Usual lengths are about 700 miles one way from California to Utah. With the occasional 1400 mile trip to Texas. As of last Friday, I'm at $64k. I'm on track to hit mid to high $80's

What I don't like is since we're sub haulers for a national Hazardous Waste company, we're at their mercy and I get cancelled every so often. When that happens I hook up to an end dump and play with hazmat dirt for a bit. What I like about it is that they load me, they unload me and the do my wash out. Never have a back haul since commodities don't do well in stinky tanks. So I get paid flat percentage to haul it, and return empty as far as 1400 miles sometimes.

 

I did the tanker/hazmat 48 states & Canada, both dry bulk and liquid. Made between $60K - $65K per year. Some of the drivers made much more than me, because I took a month off each year to vacation in the Orient. Not familiar with companies in your area; check Careerbuilder and Indeed websites for that. Bulkmatic is a good dry bulk company to check. For me, I didn't really care if the load was liquid or dry bulk.

Check Clean Harbors and Bulkmatic websites.

 

Just food for thought....I pull dry bulk locally. Last year I grossed 58k and was home daily and off most weekends. This year will probably hit 62k. Ive also ran dry bulk otr, money wasn't as good. I know there's companies that pay a little better than what I make though....

 

How about fuel? I'm on track to make 65-70k this year. One of our drivers made 105k last year but that's bc he uses ALL of his allowed hours. Home every night though...

 

Pull dry bulk for A&R Transport, Inc. Corporate office located in Morris, Il its the nations largest hauler of Bulk plastic pellets. Hard work but if you've done flatbed or food service it's easier than that. Check it out, average driver local, regional, system make $65,000.00 and hundreds more make $70,000.00+ as company drivers. They also hire Owner Ops. 1 (800) 542-8058 ext 0 ask for recuiting or ext 3631 for fleet manager (Kyle)

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Add: Great insurance package for the industry. Vacation package is nice. 2 weeks, but jumps to 3 weeks at 8 years, and 4 weeks at 15 years. On your anniversery date you are paid average weeks salary x weeks vacation. So nice chunk of change. local drivers are home most week nights and every weekend. Regional drivers are home some week nights and every weekend, system drivers go out 10-14 days max unless they prefer to be longer.

 

They were down for a few year (as down as the best in the business could be) but the new management is a breath of fresh air and on par with the great management teams before the last group. Not all trucks are flat tops. The company had an issue earlier this year after it lost a number of drivers to elogs or not wanting to go on them but overall their numbers are equal to last year and they hitorically have very little turnover. I know Morris could use 8-10 drivers right now with all the new business and added rail car spots being put in that I saw when there.

 

Well whattaya know. I am a new member and too dumb to figure out how to enter a "thanks." Guess I will resort to just saying "Thank you" to FueltankHank for the info.