Expected pay????

That sounds pretty good actually, you're grossing around a thousand and home every day.
If you have health insurance too, we'll all be trying to get your job

 

Sound like you're off to a good start. Conway Freight drivers earn high dollar, LTL, work hard for it, home a lot for reset every week.

 

I don't see the point in adding tankers now...and then in a few months going for hazmat. If you want both, just get the background check started and when you get the letter from the TSA, go get them both. Saves you a trip to the DMV, and it'll save you a little money too if your state charges for adding endorsements...usually costs the same whether you're adding 1 or all of them, because you're basically paying for the new license to be printed. I know it isn't much, but I usually try to avoid paying those crooks any more than I have to.

 

You have a pretty good gig. 17.50 plus overtime is decent. The oil fields are slowing ... Make sure you do lots of research before jumping ship ... The stupid good easy money seems to be few and far between now with the drop in the price of oil ...

 

Stay where you are and keep your nose clean. Apply for LTL or private fleets only. If they don't take you the first time then give it some time and try again. If they hire you and the starting pay is lower than what you're making now take take the job anyway. Your pay will go up.

 

If you don't mind the work, stay with carhaul. Get some more experience then get on with one of the big outfits. There's a major shortage on capacity in carhaul right now, and there are few jobs in trucking that pay as much as as a good carhauler can make. If you have a low damage ratio and clean record, you'll have no trouble getting a good gig. $75,000 is easy, six figures is doable, although hard to do being home every night. I'm sure you realize a lot of the freight out of there goes as much as 600 miles out.

 

With out health ben's you still have it much better where you are. You ca always go on line and apply for Obama benefits which here in my state include either choice of BC/BS or United Health Care, and some smaller insurance companies. I have seen (here in my state) that the premiums are actually cheaper than say if I wanted to buy directly from the health insurers.

However, since you asked about higher wages, many LTL companies pay very good. If you can get in with a local LTL union company (as only an example), you may have even a better pay check,. than non0union, but that also depends on the company. I would HIGHLY suggest that you get your tankers, doubles AND hazmat NOW.

You run the risk of all the test fee's jumping due to lack of state budgets. If states raise the fee's at a later time, you'll be sorry you waited.