Where's the money?

Try your hand hauling fuel. I’m making $82k this year and am home every night.

 

I pull food grade tankers otr and gross 1500 - 1800 a week consistently. 17 months of experience overall and 22 years old.

Just gotta get into to something specialized.

 

Uh huh.

 

i never thought of using the CB radio that way, i never used CB radios, but if I use it to interview other drivers while i'm on the road i think CB could be cool.

 

my first three months out of truck driving school when I was working for USA truck and starving to death I spent the entire time on the CB radio talking to drivers working for other companies trying to figure out who had the good jobs and who had the bad jobs.

 

Or to a lesser extent,Joisey!! I just did an intermodal dropoff at the Norfolk Southern Croxton railyard in Newark. 30 minutes after I had scanned in my paperwork I was given a PO for an extra $100 for intermodal/drayage.

 

This is just my opinion but no person with 37 years of experience should be at a mega carrier just starting with them. Does that make sense?

 

After 37 years of trucking an average driver will be so damaged in his body and mind so even without major issues with his driving records etc. he'll be lucky to drive somewhere without drooling on himself. Exceptions are few, I've met just 2 more or less intact 30+ career drivers, career trucking is extremely damaging to ones health and sanity I must say. But no matter what you think of yourself remember you can land at the bottom of employment pile in a blink of an eye regardless of your experience.

There is a simple formula of trucking wages

Trucker wage= Modest Base of 40k or so + no life bonus + health deterioration bonus + early grave bonus.

As a rule combined bonus is much smaller than the base, so effectively one has to have no life while slowly killing himself for the extra 10-20k on average.

 

I guess" good money" Is all relative honestly.
I have no house payment, no car payment. The only really bills I have Is the normal ones.
Cell phone,Electric, Water, etc.

Even with out my Military retirement. I could live off 25k a year still take a month off and vacation anywhere in world.

In my experience good money always comes when you're not trying to Chase it. And are relatively debt free ... OK I'll get off my dave Ramsey soap box