Is it possible to make good money hauling containers (intermodal)?

Yes...thats my POINT. Intermodal work sucks. There isnt an intermodal company im aware of, as driver you can earn squat...very hard as O/O too.

Who wants to do Intermodal work? It blows. Stand in line...hurry up and wait!

I know MANY guys making 6 figures and are doing nothing out of the ordinary, dry van or linehaul work as a COMPANY driver, full benefits, company match 401k or retirement pensions, and are home every day, don't have a tenth of the BS to put up with intermodal drivers do.

 

Well if you are crazy enough to do long loads using paperlogs yes. .. example Newark,NJ to buffalo-Akron area in ny I know a guy that has loads daily there, it's almost 700 miles but he pays his driver's 600 per trip do that trip daily for 40 weeks 5 times a week and you will gross 120k after uncle Sam takes his share you will be looking in the mid 70k take home

 

That is a ton of miles every day...long days...but, not bad pay.

Some of the guys I know at FedEx are driving darn close to that, daily...there doing it legal, been on e-logs for a while, so, I think there going about 635, maybe 650 mi a day making about that $. Sucks in bad weather. They run linehaul, hook a set of doubles, meet same guy everyday, switch sets and bring them back. We call them professional steering-wheel holders! but again, pay me that, give me a comfy truck and not a lot of bs, I'll run it 5 days a week too!

 

That's better than netting $1,400-$2,200 wk as an O/O...

 

I would sell my truck before I ever did that load for that kind of pay.

 

That's what he pays his company drivers

 

82,000 is the heaviest I've hauled
Most of the time anywhere between 70,000 and 80,000. Occasionally you get a light load

 

Yes that's net

 

Whew...still, at the end of the year, doesn't leave you a lot of "bones". Of course, everyone is different...for some, making $50-$60K is HUGE money...for me, if your going to risk being in business for yourself, take a chance a customer might go bankrupt so, you might not get paid, well, it needs to pay off a hell of a lot more than what I can make working for someone else. And, as I have stated here, drivers I know with relatively the same experience as me make 6 figures + driving a company truck. Not all do...I get it...but, to each there own.

 

Hi John! Yes, what Rucki was talking about was a company driver making that kind of dough. Not bad, BUT...it's east coast too! I don't know how gnarly that drive is out of NJ every day...but, 700 miles a day 5 days a week is a LONG, hard week.