Highest paid trucker

Ill agree with this guy, I worked food services, you will work your butt off for the big bucks

nowadays I'm a stick hauler, I average $30 an hour and work roughly 45 hrs a week, mon to friday, never work weekends!

But the original poster is asking a loaded question, so many variables, for example would i rather work my ### off 10hrs a day for 30 bucks an hour, or drive 5 hrs out and 5 hrs back for 28 bucks an hour??

 

I personally like tanker. Pay r decent not great but decent. Most time you can off weekend. Shipper and receiver usually more friendly. Most time you don't wait too long for loading and off loading. Most oil field company would paid for most thing you do like cleaning tank, detention, using pump(loading and off load). etc... My company even pay me to hook to trailer. Paid r from $48k to $60k. Would be more if economy r good. The only thing is, they usually require 2 to 3 yrs of experience of driving and tank. Some company would take you without tank experience but must have driving exp. Like every one said here, is what importance what you like to do more importance. Good luck my friend.

 

Steady local work that pays the bills so your home all the time pays the best!

 

I was going to reply his with " YEAH, WELL MY DAD CAN KICK YOUR DADS ### " . . . But you beat me to it!

 

You can make 144k/yr. But it takes experience,skill,attitude and contacts/references.

 

There were times when driving tour bus, I made $1000 a day. But you drove you but off. I was salaried with one entertainer for $110,000 a year. But it's was a 24/7/365 job.

 

DOE pays the best as far as what I'm reading here.

 

Highest paid trucker

1. Overseas in war zones, away from everything familiar, safe and comfortable. Friends who did this in Iraq brought home $200,000/yr plus flights there and back. Added bonuses were the little souvenirs and trinkets nobody talks about. Afghanistan doesn't pay as good, or so I hear.

2. The ND oil patch, away from most things familiar and comfortable, but still fairly safe if you can navigate the Winters. That's where I am. This place bites, but given the country is still deep in recession (despite what the Muslim says), this place pays the best anywhere in America for truckers. This statement has to be broken down into two separate situations:
a. Company drivers: $100,000 take-home (no, that is not what they offer, but it is what can be had).
b. Owner-operators: $300,000-$1,000,000 take-home, depending on how many drivers you hire.

I wouldn't be caught dead as an o/o in the oil patch. Too much risk, too many hours, too many flaky drivers, too much riding on undependable people, too many surprises from the insurance company/DOT/whatever company you're leased onto. Can you tell I used to be one?

3. Owner-operators OTR who stay busy, baby their equipment, do their own servicing/minor repairs and get hourly wait pay.

 

There are no jobs that pay enough. The owners get the real money while the commoners slave their lives away. But if you like it that's all that matters. Someday I'll find greener grass with no poop on it

 

Yes , he is union.