What company & where can a driver earn 80K+ a year???

T AND T flatbed and crane service, Bakersfield, ca. You will work for it, it's certainly not free money. Long hours, hard work,.

 

Which ones?

 

Senior line haul drivers at ltl company's pull down 90k+. Top seniority guys make right at 100k or a tad over. You have to want to run though and take the good bids. I know some guys that would rather take a night off sick than take a 400 mile run.Some bids are 500 plus miles then add in wait time, hook time, triples pay it is easy to get there.
By the way this is running a day cab too.

I bought a new truck just off of penalty pay a few years back. Penalty pay was paid at $20 an hour for every hour over 14 hours I was laid over at a non home terminal. Say I got to Phoenix Az at 5am and went to the hotel. At 7pm (14 hours) I went on penalty pay. Loads are never ready before 10-10:30 pm quite most often I would leave at midnight. 5 hours pay sitting at the hotel!

low senority guys are making 65-70k with ease.

 

LTL's as a line driver. Old D starts at .54cpm pulling LCV's off the bat. Red fleet (red trucks)Cast as a radioactive hauler heard they up their pay and if you never take home time. Cast whip fleet (white trucks) Teams high rad hauler heard their salary 90k.

 

I worked at many car dealerships, spoke with many haulers, if you're willing to bust your hump they were making 120 k but that was before the economy tanked, don't know what they make now.

 

I think he means drug running. Retirement plan is dead or jail.

 

You can though. You can make over a grand + a week right out of CDL school. First, get all the endorsements, passport, TWIC. Then most important, ignore "experience required" and submit online applications before any phone calls or visits. Give the company time to look at the application; it's easy to say "no" over the phone. As I've preached before, many companies bend their own hiring rules when they have freight sitting there with no drivers and they're looking at your application. Won't mention any names, but I know a new CDL grad that was just hired by a heavy haul company that "requires 2 years experience", and he got the job because he ignored that and submitted an application anyway.

 

We all make 60-75k hauling dirt where I'm at. Depends how hard you wanna run and how many weekends you do wanna work for OT. Home every night too

 

Lots of LTL linehaul guys make 80k, easy. I tend to look at the total compensation package - pay, insurances, vacation time, retirement plan, work week, etc..

 

The was good money in hauling cars ...but as a newbie the lessons learned in Opps I just damaged a car would be very $$ expensive