Highest paying driver jobs

Any job were you have to handle freight will pay significantly higher the starting wage for a lazy driver is 63000 a year you will be blindside backing into alleys and then unloading through a regular house sized door with a 53 our highest paid driver made 103000 as a company driver .

 

What about Tanker, that is not mentioned. I am not making any decisions about which direction to take my driving career until I can actually make such a decision. But, I am curious and seem to be drawn toward HazMat, Tanker, long haul stuff. I would think pay for that would be decent and chances are if I keep at it long enough, I might find a decent company to work for with decent treatment, decent pay and decent loads. Just thinking here. But, it seems possible.

Anyway, hazmat tanker trucks? decent pay? (yes I understand the higher risk).

 

tanker stuff...not a friggin clue, sorry. i would imagine they make more than dry van. i never considered it as an option because of they (perhaps mostly imagined) danger of a constantly shifting load. but thats not from a whit of experience, just my sense of what it would be. honestly i have zero experience with flatbed as well. and of course i have no experience as "ice road" or iraq. but i did some research on each as a whim sorta thing. but tanker never interested me, so zero research on that one. sorry again. im sure theres lots of info out there for the properly motivated. theres a section in this forum, if im not mistaken. ask the guys who do it day in day out.

 

In 2008 I was really wanting out of here and looked at everything. The best initial paying driving job I found was with a tv production company that primarily covered sporting events. There was no cpm or hourly rate - it started at a flat $285 per day worked as an apprentice. I went in and interviewed twice and got offered the job but turned it down in the end because of the time away from home and the fact I hate flying.

 

Oil field truck driver vac, cement etc I avg $340( and im new the guys training me make 100k )day but thats 12.5 hours a day 6 days a week. The moneys really good no life but hey did I mention the moneys really good and home everyday/night (rotating shifts). To op if you find a better gig jump on it.

 

Experienced , husband/wife team owner operators make the most money!

 

Car hauler or heavy haulerheavy hauler. Usually top level guys will make 400 k to over a half mil.

 

Yeah, before fuel and other expenses.

 

driving reefer in NE, just started. My trainer had to take 4 months off this year for back surgery & will hit 50k still this year. Needless to say, Im looking forward to the next year.