3 yrs exp, but left trucking 4 yrs ago making $120K+, where do I pick up?

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  1. Pacific Islander

    Pacific Islander Light Load Member

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    Sorry, but most people won't ever run with 3 ppl on a truck, thus the reason why you don't understand how I made that much (or little depending on how you look at it) running for England. I don't know what to tell you.
     
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  3. jerezxp7

    jerezxp7 Medium Load Member

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    I liked my trainer a lot he was the only thing about England that didn't suck I could train if I wanted to but it's not my thing I don't like people and I don't know how your suppose to rest with someone new behind the wheel no thank you.The reason a England trainer makes so much is because the student is paid 11 cents a mile and starving my trainer at least bought me all my food and was generally a good guy but 5k a week he could afford to be good.
     
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    dca Road Train Member

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    There went that payday.. Managment has it all figured out..
     
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  6. Pacific Islander

    Pacific Islander Light Load Member

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    You my friend, are someone I would associate with. Like minds think alike. I bought and sold about 14 mobile homes when I was in the Navy. People laughed when I got off work, I would drive the mobile home parks with my wife, and looked for distressed or abandoned trailers, or with a for sale sign. I flipped about 8 of those for about $3k each within just a few months. The other 6 I fixed up and rented them out. Netted me about $1400 a month total. I sold all of them to the trailer park owner about a year later for $17000 cash. All from a book I found called billy shruggs "making money with mobile homes" or something like.

    From that, I got my Freight Broker license. Was a freight broker for a short while. My wife did the phone part and I did the paperwork part. Made pretty #### good money for about 7 months and then, we started having marriage issues. My wife left, and that was the end my my brokering business. I was not a phone person. Thats when I lived on credit cards for about 6 months. Then somehow stumbled on England. Why? Because I needed something and they were the first ones to call me and buy me a ticket to come to Dallas, and pay for my hotel get me my CDL.

    Right now, when my fiancee returned back from deployment and we broke up, it hurt. I have been clueless as what to do these past few months. Internet marketing, Teespring, building a few websites, but nothing is making me money.

    So, being that I kept my CDL as a backup. I'm just trying to get back on stable ground. I want to eventually be a computer programming engineer (but work for myself, or a startup)

    Thanks for suggesting the food service industry. I almost forgot about them. I might try getting on with them, maybe even be home everyday and get paid good. I know those Sysco guys get paid pretty good, and I believe they are home every day.

    Then again, I'm also thinking about being a cable/satellite installer as I know they get paid based on performance, or how many jobs they do, and I heard some it pays well too, about $1000-$1500 a week.
     
  7. Salad

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    In a rich area you'll make 1200 a week installing pretty easily. 300 or so in cash tips.

    Sysco guys here (Houston area) claim 70k a year if you are lazy and piddling about. So the money is certainly there
     
  8. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    My view to get a good paying driving job while actually still not having to kill yourself is to do..

    Local tanker work
    Union LTL road driver

    Those I'd say are the best to earn money and get you home.

    I'm leasing with Schneider, picking my own freight on % which is another good place and I do well but it's more of an OTR job.
     
  9. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    nah he was a "trainer" with two students in a truck.
    I guess it's possible if you kill yourself doing it.
     
  10. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    You can do $100k at some LTL type jobs.. maybe car hauling too.
    Having your own truck too but not rolling for no .90 but getting paid percentage.

    No mater those choices you still gotta work pretty hard to still pull off $100k
     
  11. HorseShoe

    HorseShoe Road Train Member

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    This is OP, owner operator

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