How much do you earn gross per year?

O/Operator,I gross around 110,00, net low 40's.Truck paid for, 6.5 mpg. Home every night usually by 4 pm, start around 7, work average of 4 days a week in a year, pulling shippers trailer. Can choose loads, work as I want, same loading place every day, usually same receiver. Sometimes haul for shipper, sometimes a receiver.

But I do the customer a good job, and do what they want, when they want, and how they want. No excuses, just do what I am told.And they pay well for it.

 

$60k. Local job. 5 days a week, usually between 8-10 hours per day. Hauling and delivering fuel with a DZ license/Class B CDL. Great benefits. I think that's pretty good for a second year driver. Best paying job I've had thus far. I'm 27 years old.

 

I grossed 68.5k last year CAD.

 

Retired in 2011....but the last full year I worked (2010) I grossed 73,380. Worked for GSF , for 30+ years. I was running a Monday , Tuesday , Thursday schedule when I retired , home every night.

 

Just finishing my 1st year with Swift, doing the "boot camp" for that precious one year recent experience. I grossed $37K. Looking now for upgrading, either within the company or a new company.

 

Grossed ~65K last year, on track to do the same this year. Company driver. Temperature sensitive, haz-mat, medical and high value. 49 US states and all Canadian Provinces.

 

$44k gross.
Full year was Sept '13.
Company.
Not home everyday/weekend, but I don't need to be.

 

To me, the money I make isn't as important as being happy at a driving job. I've been at this for a while I have been all over the income spectrum. From hauling grain locally from fields to elevators or elevator to elevator (very little money while gaining experience) to a regional reefer operation to OTR for 50k/year to a near top tier LTL line haul job, $80k/year. The job I'm at now is with an environmental/industrial services outfit. We run vacuum tankers, roll offs, luggers (those trapezoidal shaped kind of mini dumpsters the truck picks up) and even a few vans. I'm not making the LTL line haul money here, I'm on pace for @$65k my first year here, but..... I do not have the stress that the line haul gig provided, I run only days, I'm paid hourly and we have a very laid back atmosphere here as long as one does his job and in the winter, if the weather is just down right horrible, our company shuts down, we don't go out. This work isn't for everyone, most days I do not drive even 100 miles, I spend more of my time babysitting the truck or moving the hose to different tanks, drums, or machines to pump them out or I spend a fair part of my day getting in and out of the truck hooking up the chains to lift the lugger boxes onto the truck, I sometimes run as many as 6-8 boxes a day to the landfill, scrap yard, or storage site for later disposal but after 1.6 million miles, I'm really good with not driving so much.

The only drawbacks to this kind of work are, we work weekends and being the new guy, I get a lot of weekends unless it's been a slow week for the senior guys, but that also means that I get more overtime pay too and we do plant shut down work, cleaning out paint pits, etc. when factories are on shut down which also happens to be on most holidays, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and even a couple of Christmas's over the years I've been told. That's when we go in and work and that also usually requires being out of town for up to a week. But we are put up in a motel by the company, paid $35/day cash per diem and any holiday work pays doubletime.

I guess the key is to keep your finances in order so you do not have to always be searching for that great paying gig. I was a slave to that money for many years and it was taking it's toll on me. Now I haven't been happier at a job in quite a long time even though the pay isn't what I could be making somewhere else, in fact I turned down a job offer from ABF and UPS Freight for this job and haven't regretted it one bit.

 

I gross right around the 50-51 mark. But that's a guaranteed gross for me bc I'm dedicated. So as long as I work 5 days a week, I'm getting 2500 mile pay per week. So, although its not the best paying position, the fact I can count on knowing exactly how much I make is a great feeling. Plus, I'm home nearly every day, because the shipper I pull out of the most is only 10 miles from my home on the west side of Columbus Ohio. So, I just got lucky geographically lol. I wouldn't be home every day if I didn't live so close.

So, with these three things, home nearly every day, off Friday afternoon to Monday morning, and 51k a year I can count on even if the miles aren't there, makes that a pretty sweet deal in my book.


Oh yea, and last may, they gave me a brand new, all chromed out, 2014 Pererbilt with 70 miles on her! It's been 2 weeks shy of a year since I took delivery, and already have 116k on her.