How much do container haulers make? Would like real numbers.

$3000 a week after taxes and all operating expenses?.

I drive by long lines of container haulers nearly everyday in Newark and if they are bringing home even half that, I swear I will stop feeling sorry for them.

Well, maybe I will still feel sorry for that guy in the clapped out FLD patched with HVAC metal foil tape I saw yesterday.

 

And probably a couple of brakes not working or out of adjustment.

 

80 to 100k average for company drivers? That's awfully generous. Maybe the upper 5 percent. That's really a selling tactic to get people to get a CDL. They only quote stats from top 5 percent or less.

 

Driver shortage is politician speak for

1.18 year old interstate driver age
2.Allowing Mexican and Canadian drivers to pick up and deliver in the US.
3. Pushing self driving truck agenda
4. We need more immigration

 

THIS^^^^^

 

Well, maybe I will still feel sorry for that guy in the clapped out FLD patched with HVAC metal foil tape I saw yesterday.[/QUOTE]

Are you sure that's a patch and not a chrome job?
It seems strange to me that the largest container problem is in Los Angeles and no one ever mentions the fact that a large percentage of the trucks in America can't run there. I have taken advantage of the emission laws and helped them get a couple of those horrible polluting truck out of their state.

 

There may be some 18 year olds they would want to drive but that's going to be few and far between. There are some mature kids but the kids they want to hang out and get high and go to concerts.

I agree the turnover in a lot of ways is because of Lies. Probably the schools lie to you to get your money and the megas will lie to you to get you as slave labor.

And no I do not believe the container hauler is making $3,000 a week net. Gross yes, net no.