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Household goods. I'm a household goods driver.

 

Yeah but it's hard finding anything that makes near as much. Last year my take home was 140k. This year I am on track for 150

 

It makes me feel good knowing I can buy some shoes and a jacket without feeling like I robbed my kids. I remember when I was a hhg laborer and didn't come close to 30k for 4 years. It's a whole new world still

 

The truck and my body made 300k. I paid taxes on about 140000. Remember hhg drivers only drive about 60000 miles a year and we have to hire labor and buy material for every move. I shoot for 1000$ a day that a job takes. Cut it in half. I take half and spend the other to operate. So if a job takes 8 days it better pay at least 8000. A job that holds me up 2 days needs 2000 minimum.l

 

I got into hhg when I was 16 because my father had been in it since before I was born and I just picked up the trade. Ive never seen an hhg team. I get my loads through the van line I'm contracted/leased to. They pay me a large percentage of the total job cost and im 1099d. I manage expenses and pay from there. I pack people's #### pad wrap their furniture and load it like 3D Tetris into my truck floor to ceiling. I protect the doors jambs railings and flooring with specialized pads and plastic wrap.