Moving to orlando?

Dude sarcastic ANSWERS NOT COMMENTS cause I lived here 35 years and know what these companies pay! Maybe you can make 1K a week but I'd bet you anything you be working 60+ hours a week to make it. Don't believe everything you read. I can show you over a 100 adds hiring drivers but you call or answer them they say not hiring in the area they do adds. So don't believe everything you read and if you do find 40hours a week that pays 1K or more a week in Florida Driving truck Please come back and rub it in our faces and post a checkstub with hours etc..... I won't be holding my breath. GL tho and stay safe.

 

Your asking about $1,000 a week take home running local in Orlando. No it doesn't happen. There are plenty of Puerto Ricans coming off the island making $8/hr to take those jobs at a lower rate. Energy is ALWAYS hiring drivers, what does that tell you? Average wage I see in Orlando for pulling hazmat tanker is $10-12 an hour. If you don't like our answers, that's fine. Move on down, you won't find what you're looking for and you'll move back up north. Plenty of Yankees have been doing that for 50 years.

 

These people how-ever rough it may be to you, are telling you the truth, I have lived here since 1997, and to get that type of job here in Fl, that every-other driver may be trying to get, is very tuff. Now that being said if you lived somewhere else in the country, and your driving record and history are great, I could turn you in the direction of making around $100,000 a year and home on weekends for a restart. But not in Fl.

I work for Ashley Distribution, they make furniture you have seen the stores, they are expanding, they are a good company and pay very well, but I am gone 5-6 days and home for at least 34-38. I do the drop and hook no touch.

If any one needs more info just reply.

Good luck, I really mean it.

 

P.M. Me info. I'd relocate for that kinda job.

 

And O/P, please feel free to take a handful of northern transplants back north with you when you do come here and fail. And I've been here since 1961.

 

AMEN!!!! Just some people don't like hearing the truth. Only jobs like that in Fl UPS,USPS and if he qualified for that he wouldn't be asking for help right?,

 

Forgive me for being frank. There are two trucking jobs that I know of that are home daily in Orlando, and pay what you are looking to make. Publix and UPS. Both of them only hire those positions from within, so you have to work the warehouse for about a decade before you're offered a truck. UPS it will be the little truck without a/c and you bust your butt. Going in for 2-3 hours a night to unload or sort for a decade takes a lot of patience. Publix at least you get to pull orders and ride around on jack or forklift. I did the third shift unloader at the UPS hub for two weeks in college. #### that. Good luck.

 

FYI, I relocated to PA when I first started out as that was where trucking paid decent. After starting my company, I moved back to FL because I could at least make enough to do OK in Cowtown.

 

When I asked someone in Fleet Management at Energy Dispatch headquarters if $1000 / week for a driver was possible in Orlando this is the response I got:

[FONT=&quot]I just spoke to ............. and she told me yes the drivers can pull in that much a week, there is a few that are making a little less and some that are making more.[/FONT]

Now someone did make a good point as to how many hours it takes to get that $1000 but obviously it is possible. I believe a few drivers were let go for stealing fuel.

Hope this helps and good luck with the search!

 

The O/P said: He NEEDS to make ATLEAST $1,000 a week TAKE HOME.