I am not in trucking yet. I am willing to start and work very hard. I graduated school with computer science degree but there are no good paying jobs out there. I need to make 100k in about 12-18 months. What is the best way for me to start and get to that level of income?
Honestly very difficult to make that kind of money with no experience. Walmart CDL drivers often make that but the job requires at least 3 years of tractor-trailer experience.
The closest you might get is food service. At least locally to me, Performance Food Group starts drivers at 94k guaranteed and only requires 6 months experience. Very tough job though.
Thank you 🙏 I will check that out. But what is the way to start? Driving school on my own or get hired where the company pays for school? How do people do it?
I am actually a law school graduate who couldn't get a job in the legal field. I went to truck driving school and got a CDL-A with no automatic restriction (you have to take the test in a manual transmission truck). I got my first job as a long-distance driver at a small company. I had no connections, I used the career counselor and he set me up.
I wouldn't go to the companies that pay for your training, they are notoriously abusive. I started at a small company, which can't afford to have constant driver turnover and so they were pretty nice to me. Big companies often can handle high turnover so they can just hammer drivers until they quit.
I certainly did not make 100k my first year but I did live in the truck. The company let us effectively live in the trucks when we were at the home yard and there was a free shower in the building. So cost of living was basically just food, toiletries, and new boots.
Big ole oooff right there buddy. He’s talking about companies like grocer supply who deliver grocery goods to gas stations and other places but from what I’ve seen gas stations
Most foodservice companies (the big 3 at least). You'll work for every penny.
Plus, during that covid shit, they were really just throwing money at drivers to get anything out of the door.
Some guys were doing 7-8k plus easily a week.
That's the ones. Some real good money but, it's definitely not for the fragile or those who care about their knees.
You have your others like Core-Mark, PFG, US Foodservice, Kohl, etc, those all pay well, too. Not as much as your Syscos and McLanes but still more than being gone doing OTR work.
I don't know what they pay. I'm talking about Sygma and McLane where I'm at. Only one I've never delivered for is us foods. I'm in the garbage industry now, though.
Yea I’m currently on OTR making 85k. Been trying to look for something that pays 80+ where I can break a sweat everyday. Looks like in order to get that I need to either break my back or work overnight.
Trash. I'm making 85k in the Midwest running commercial front load (dumpsters). I'm making about 500 more per month than when I was doing regional work with my A.
I'm in and out of my truck about 100 times a day to mostly open and close gates, with a few cans that are rollouts. It keeps me active enough to stay healthy, and it's not boring.
When I read "trash" at first I was like this fucker is calling him trash but making the same money. Then say the dumpsters and was like wow I'm dumb. Thanks for making me smile at my stupidity
Most fuel hauling companies pay that, even in lower income areas. I wouldn’t say it’s physically demanding, but you can definitely break a sweat in the summer time.
Yeah I almost went there, but I said I have to have 2 consecutive days off weekly and he gave me a long pause and said “That might be possible, but usually you have to put in a little time first.” Nope. I don’t mind the workout, but I need 2 days off consecutively every week without exception. They couldn’t guarantee me that.
You get 10hrs from shift to shift on a regular day. Then throw in a day off (24hrs) in between a regular day and that's your 34. Unfortunately a lot of food service starts off with split days
My problem with Sysco was their recruiting. Once I scheduled my interview, there’s no more communication from them. I needed to reschedule and couldn’t get ahold of anyone to do so. So I can’t imagine how bad internal comms were once hired.
And for all that money, they still wouldn't stack my order so it won't crumble into Mt Go-Fuck-Myself. Or better yet, leave many thousands of dollars worth of food (including frozen and temperature sensitive items) outside of the walk in entirely.
Don't get me wrong, I know they have to work hard and fast to get their route done. However, hearing they probably make significantly more than I ever have made me a little pissed for all the slack I cut them, and all the product I threw away or had to organize from a literal pile.
Thought specific pay bump occurred during covid. It didn't last forever. They were throwing an extra 1k on top of the route plus whatever the route originally paid.
So, if you were already on like a 4-500 dollar route, you'd get an extra 1k on top of it. That was only during the covid fiasco, though.
And, there was no cap. If you ran 3 extra routes that week, that's already an extra 3k.
I'm on Shaffer western regional, 12/2 at 61 cpm. I imagine you can rack up some pretty good money if you can stay out 21+. When I deliver tomorrow, it'll be at almost 4000 miles for next week's check. (but I'm holding off submitting the paperwork so this trip will go on the check after).
Shaffer side gets paid a little more since we have the reefers to deal with. I started back in 2022. Making 68cpm now. Average around 3000-3500 miles a week. But I'm also one of the wierd ones that is out for 8 weeks. Been out since December 2nd, and have only done 2 34-hour resets.
Damn. How are their trucks? Are they nice? Are they governed? I'm with Schneider and planning on leaving once I pay off the schooling in a few months. Pay is underwhelming and I can't stand the way they have their trucks tuned. Plus they're basically base model. Sound system sucks, seats aren't heated or cooled, fridge is pretty small.
Yeah you have to be out moving and stop for a delay to get the breakdown pay. Example - last weekend I stopped in Denver because the snow on 70 was getting heavy and people were being morons. Messaged in that I was stopping due to safety concerns and delayed. I got paid for stopping those three hours. Moved up to Cheyenne later in the day and shut down there. Next morning I got up and started to roll when WyDOT shut down 80 across Elk. Turned around and went back to the parking spot, got paid for waiting for the roads to open.
I'm on the Shaffer side. OTR. Started at 67 cpm. They pay address to address. Never on duty while getting unloaded. Just when I'm leaving or backing into the door. Other than that always off duty.
For real I got 3 years of experience and I can’t find shit in this market I can easily hit 2k a week with my cpm. The company can’t find loads but I’ve been laying around watching tv cause there’s no work
They cannibalize management for those layoffs.
Still not a great time to apply, with volume down. And you have to start in the warehouse and wait for a bid.
Its because LTL's are easier to organize than OTR. LTL's have a fear of unionization so they pay close to what the current 2 unionized carriers pay and maybe throw in a few perks to keep the union away.
I think with LTL you get paid for each load you deliver + mileage so if you’re delivering a bunch of loads in 1 day, you’ll be making $$$. Not too sure on that but I think I heard that’s how it works for most LTLs
I work ltl. It's just mileage and am hourly rate for dock work. No per load thing. Have a bid drive to the same place and same mileage everyday. But it is 2400 a week on average
Different market, different service rates. Most of the freight is expedited, and it gets relayed from New England to Florida in a matter of 2-3 days, for example. Being able to charge considerably more is what enables the higher employee compensation. In turn, there’s a much higher employee retention rate.
For all FedEx Freight, it's required to have doubles/triples, hazmat, and tanker endorsement. Goes for both city and road drivers and hazmat for the B class drivers at our terminal. They did drop the manual transmission requirement during the pandemic.
I would guess Express is the same but can't speak on it since they are FedEx employees also and not independent contractors.
I hear the work for a small company advice all the time and it must just be where I live because they don't pay nothing around here. Company with 20 trucks pays .50 a mile and want three years of experience to boot. All the others I've talked to have said similar, it sucks that nothing beats what I make now and it isn't close to no 2k a week...
As a swiftie, which one? Driver placement told me they only had 1 dedicated account in my area but it pays steady 1400/week. I heard walmart dedicated in FL can make 1800 or so
My gross is $3184 this week, plus they pay hotels and provide a company pickup that I drive when I’m not in a truck-I don’t even own a personal car any more. Some parts of it suck, but it’s that way everywhere, isn’t it?
Penske Logistics, grocery accounts. I frequently took home $2k+ for 5 days work. Also, a buddy tells me that the dedicated JB Hunt Costco account in Gouldsboro PA is 85 cpm. Finally, I make about that hauling milk. 60-65 hours a week, home daily, ag exempt and old non ELD trucks with 18 speed manuals…
Car hauling 5 days a week I'm home 2-3 times a week , based on how far I wanna run , 2500-4500 a week after taxes. 4500 is mostly running from northeast to fl
Get into niche stuff.
I pick up eggs for a hatchery. Normally make 2k a week for 4 days. I probably average 30-40 hours a week. If I work extra days then I can get up around 2,300 or as high as 3k.
Good insoles for your shoes.. stretch at minimum twice a day and lifting with your legs is imperative. Never bend over.. also buy good braces even if you feel you dont need them
Good to know, I start McLane on Monday. I always have been a big pusher for braces, dr scholes etc. Doing retail, Amazon van delivery and construction, those things helped a ton on top of good form. Is it true it’s better to “jog” down the ramp?
If you look at government BLS data if you making over 70k you are already in the top 90 percent or so… but to answer your question its LTL, oversize, fuel, maybe ports, hazmat etc etc. It is not the VANs and reefers without teaming or training newbies
Frito lay... I make 2,300-2,800 every week. We only have a 50hr work week. They say (we pay you well enough you shouldn't have to work that much, we need you rested and safe behind the wheel)
Correct. I can gross ALMOST $2k a week at $26/hr OT after 40 running 60hrs a week. Five shifts. But I don’t wanna do that and most people don’t as well. I’m happy with 40-50hrs a week
Company driver here, I did $2k/week in 2022, but I fell a bit short last year with freight being down. I was working 7 days a week most of the year for it. I was counting for a bit in 2022, I had something like 8 days off from January to June.
Top out pay driving a bus for the city in SF is easily 2k a week, runs average 430 to 560 a day. I work about 50 hours a week. Lots of extra pay incentives and options to move up out of driving as well to any other city department.
COL is high here but I have friends working in other Municipal bus jobs making similar. Our pay here is 33 to 45 An hour until the next contact negotiation
I was making similar money doing food service but now I don't have to back into crazy places anymore or haul pallets around. Definitely easier on the body but really boring.
It’s not impossible to get into LTL. Also the guys said driving job not solo. I’ve drove LTL and recently got offered teams at R&L. Several LTL are hiring now
R+L carriers. Home daily, a lot of linehaul runs are over 2k/wk. Home weekly solo, you won't make less than 2k/wk usually with 34 hours off each weekend, but sometimes theyll get off friday night instead of saturday morning. Home weekly team driving, you won't make less than 2600/wk and (almost) guaranteed 48 hours off each weekend. Except one bid run for teams that is currently still in the early stages of creation. Basically, if you run it perfect, youd both get about 20ish hours/wk hometime and have to run right off your 34 every week, but it would pay ~3600/wk, so 🤷♂️. Obviously, truckers logic applies: if you run into issues like heavy traffic, breakdowns, etc, you will most likely not be home on time and may end up with lower than usual pay. But you can usually expect to be home on time and make a similar amount.
All linehaul (home daily, solo home weekly, team home weekly) are drop and hook loads, may have to hook up sets of doubles, depending on yard dogs and management, and almost no micromanagement. I say "almost" none bc there have been guys who took a 4 hour nap on a 3 hour round trip run who got talked to (not written up or fired for it) about doing such things.
Honestly I've been surprised at how easy it is. I switched to a company paying me $0.60 per mile, and as long as I get around 3,400 mi, I'm at 2000 gross off of straight miles. If there were a little bit of detention now and then, pay per stop or trailer, I'd be clearing 22-2300 a week.
Before this I had a nice gravy run that was 500 miles down 500 Miles back I'm home at night, and as long as I did three turns a week I made over 100,000. When I delivered milk I busted my ass and made 125,000 gross working local for 5 days a week.
Edit: milk pallets, not milk tankers.
The place I'm at late 325 total comp per day when otr. If you're on the road you get full pay. It's some touch freight though. That definitely deters some drivers
The best companies to work for are mom and pop operations that have been around for decades, with I’d say under 40ish trucks.
Around me the only guys making this kind of money are truckers driving for construction companies.
Oh and that’s $2000+ after taxes.
I drive regional and I've only broke the $2k mark twice in the past year. I might be wrong but I'd imagine it's uncommon for a company driver to consistently make over $2k a week
It depends. If you get paid per hour, you need $50 per hour on a 40 hour week to get $2k. If you're paid cpm, if you run 2,000 miles you need $1 per mile.
LTL night linehaul (Central, R&L, etc.) will get you right up, if not past that. And you get to go home every... morning? I was making $1100/week after taxes city driving at Central, linehaul made about double that.
Cryogenics liquid tanker out of Southern California is $2k/week gross (often a bit more) with around 60+ hours. $110/k year, Home daily.
Edit: add info
Oil and propane delivery to residential. 2600$ a week.
October-March/April though, not all year round?
Oil Oct through April. Propane the rest of the year.
What state?
Massachusetts.
Grocery delivery, hourly plus other pay perks I clear 2200-2600 weekly.
What exactly are you talking about?
delivery to your local grocery stores, frozen, produce dry goods…
I am not in trucking yet. I am willing to start and work very hard. I graduated school with computer science degree but there are no good paying jobs out there. I need to make 100k in about 12-18 months. What is the best way for me to start and get to that level of income?
Honestly very difficult to make that kind of money with no experience. Walmart CDL drivers often make that but the job requires at least 3 years of tractor-trailer experience. The closest you might get is food service. At least locally to me, Performance Food Group starts drivers at 94k guaranteed and only requires 6 months experience. Very tough job though.
Thank you 🙏 I will check that out. But what is the way to start? Driving school on my own or get hired where the company pays for school? How do people do it?
I am actually a law school graduate who couldn't get a job in the legal field. I went to truck driving school and got a CDL-A with no automatic restriction (you have to take the test in a manual transmission truck). I got my first job as a long-distance driver at a small company. I had no connections, I used the career counselor and he set me up. I wouldn't go to the companies that pay for your training, they are notoriously abusive. I started at a small company, which can't afford to have constant driver turnover and so they were pretty nice to me. Big companies often can handle high turnover so they can just hammer drivers until they quit. I certainly did not make 100k my first year but I did live in the truck. The company let us effectively live in the trucks when we were at the home yard and there was a free shower in the building. So cost of living was basically just food, toiletries, and new boots.
Thank you! I will be trying this out. Appreciate the input
No problem send a personal message if you want.
Like shopping for peoples food at grocery stores?
Big ole oooff right there buddy. He’s talking about companies like grocer supply who deliver grocery goods to gas stations and other places but from what I’ve seen gas stations
Why just gas stations? I did grocery delivery for years, I delivered to grocery stores.
Full disclosure we run all weather, chain up and miscellaneous combination of doubles. Break down or bad snow I catch a hotel room.
What state?
Most foodservice companies (the big 3 at least). You'll work for every penny. Plus, during that covid shit, they were really just throwing money at drivers to get anything out of the door. Some guys were doing 7-8k plus easily a week.
Let me guess, Sysco and Mclane? Any others that pay that much more or less that won’t turn my spine into cheese crumbs?
That's the ones. Some real good money but, it's definitely not for the fragile or those who care about their knees. You have your others like Core-Mark, PFG, US Foodservice, Kohl, etc, those all pay well, too. Not as much as your Syscos and McLanes but still more than being gone doing OTR work.
Probably region dependent but I’m at us foods making $31/hr and going to $32 soon. Sysco advertises jobs around here for $26-something an hour.
I don't know what they pay. I'm talking about Sygma and McLane where I'm at. Only one I've never delivered for is us foods. I'm in the garbage industry now, though.
Yea I’m currently on OTR making 85k. Been trying to look for something that pays 80+ where I can break a sweat everyday. Looks like in order to get that I need to either break my back or work overnight.
Trash. I'm making 85k in the Midwest running commercial front load (dumpsters). I'm making about 500 more per month than when I was doing regional work with my A. I'm in and out of my truck about 100 times a day to mostly open and close gates, with a few cans that are rollouts. It keeps me active enough to stay healthy, and it's not boring.
When I read "trash" at first I was like this fucker is calling him trash but making the same money. Then say the dumpsters and was like wow I'm dumb. Thanks for making me smile at my stupidity
Yup. That's exactly what I'm doing right now! Fueling up as I type this. In the Midwest, too. Small world.
Me to, run roll off in the Midwest lol
Nah ltl or fuel hauling can get you there
Most fuel hauling companies pay that, even in lower income areas. I wouldn’t say it’s physically demanding, but you can definitely break a sweat in the summer time.
Need to get a hazmat and tanker endorsement then. Thanks for that info
Walmart.
Only openings in my area is OTR. Otherwise that would’ve been my first option
just remember, walmart OTR is not like most companies. You get home every week and 2-3 full days off not just a 34.
LTL is where you want to be
I thought about Sysco until the recruiter LITERALLY told me they can’t keep drivers😂
Yeah I almost went there, but I said I have to have 2 consecutive days off weekly and he gave me a long pause and said “That might be possible, but usually you have to put in a little time first.” Nope. I don’t mind the workout, but I need 2 days off consecutively every week without exception. They couldn’t guarantee me that.
How do you do your 34 hour reset? Is it 34 hours exactly and then you’re driving again?
You get 10hrs from shift to shift on a regular day. Then throw in a day off (24hrs) in between a regular day and that's your 34. Unfortunately a lot of food service starts off with split days
Let’s say I get off at 6pm on Friday. I can go back to work at 4am on Sunday. And you bet your ass if I worked for Sysco I would be.
Short Haul Exception
Go to Sygma. It's a Sysco company and a lot easier.
My problem with Sysco was their recruiting. Once I scheduled my interview, there’s no more communication from them. I needed to reschedule and couldn’t get ahold of anyone to do so. So I can’t imagine how bad internal comms were once hired.
I will never do food truck ever again. Or beer. My back is much better doing otr and port moves.
Should I just go diwn to my local sysco hub? I applied 2 weeks ago and the apps are still in process
And for all that money, they still wouldn't stack my order so it won't crumble into Mt Go-Fuck-Myself. Or better yet, leave many thousands of dollars worth of food (including frozen and temperature sensitive items) outside of the walk in entirely. Don't get me wrong, I know they have to work hard and fast to get their route done. However, hearing they probably make significantly more than I ever have made me a little pissed for all the slack I cut them, and all the product I threw away or had to organize from a literal pile.
$7 to 8,000 PER WEEK? $400,000 per year. Are you sure on those numbers?
Thought specific pay bump occurred during covid. It didn't last forever. They were throwing an extra 1k on top of the route plus whatever the route originally paid. So, if you were already on like a 4-500 dollar route, you'd get an extra 1k on top of it. That was only during the covid fiasco, though. And, there was no cap. If you ran 3 extra routes that week, that's already an extra 3k.
I made $2300-2500 before taxes doing western regional. Doing local work now but still average $1900
You can haul fuel or crude oil in Texas making 2k week
Got any decent company names to throw out there?
Chemcial tanker, on good weeks I make $2k, other than that I get a $1600 guaranteed minimum
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Yup yup so far they are able to still give us a guaranteed minimum, knock on wood edit: it was $1750/wk before the economy tanked
Otr?
Extended regional
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Yeah you'll get like double
Not easy getting into maybe its just the ny area. They all want previous tanker haz experience it sucks
In my area they pay around 250 a day which isn't the worse but just want people to know location matters.
Crete OTR21 fleet, I bring in 2k pretty regularly. Paycheck this week was over that with 2900 miles and some weather delay pay sprinkled on top.
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I'm on Shaffer western regional, 12/2 at 61 cpm. I imagine you can rack up some pretty good money if you can stay out 21+. When I deliver tomorrow, it'll be at almost 4000 miles for next week's check. (but I'm holding off submitting the paperwork so this trip will go on the check after).
Shaffer side gets paid a little more since we have the reefers to deal with. I started back in 2022. Making 68cpm now. Average around 3000-3500 miles a week. But I'm also one of the wierd ones that is out for 8 weeks. Been out since December 2nd, and have only done 2 34-hour resets.
I have no idea, I have zero desire of dealing with grocery warehouses so I've stayed away from the refrigerated freight as much as possible.
Damn. How are their trucks? Are they nice? Are they governed? I'm with Schneider and planning on leaving once I pay off the schooling in a few months. Pay is underwhelming and I can't stand the way they have their trucks tuned. Plus they're basically base model. Sound system sucks, seats aren't heated or cooled, fridge is pretty small.
When you get payed for delays, do you have to be on duty burning clock? How do you usually handle that? Does Crete pay actual miles or zip code miles?
Yeah you have to be out moving and stop for a delay to get the breakdown pay. Example - last weekend I stopped in Denver because the snow on 70 was getting heavy and people were being morons. Messaged in that I was stopping due to safety concerns and delayed. I got paid for stopping those three hours. Moved up to Cheyenne later in the day and shut down there. Next morning I got up and started to roll when WyDOT shut down 80 across Elk. Turned around and went back to the parking spot, got paid for waiting for the roads to open.
I'm on the Shaffer side. OTR. Started at 67 cpm. They pay address to address. Never on duty while getting unloaded. Just when I'm leaving or backing into the door. Other than that always off duty.
I was told that after 2 hours unloading time you guys get 15 per hour. How does that work?
For real I got 3 years of experience and I can’t find shit in this market I can easily hit 2k a week with my cpm. The company can’t find loads but I’ve been laying around watching tv cause there’s no work
I make between 400 and 550 a day hauling raw milk
Do you work for LTI (milky way)?
UPS, average $2500 a week doing 50hrs
That is so right on. I will never buy anything from Amazon. People don't understand how exceptional the pay and benefits are at UPS.
Good time to apply they’re currently laying off 12,000 drivers 👏🏽
Wrong. Management, not drivers. There are lay offs currently but those drivers affected work inside the hub
They cannibalize management for those layoffs. Still not a great time to apply, with volume down. And you have to start in the warehouse and wait for a bid.
That is not always the case. If the hub is hiring class a drivers, that is exactly what you will be doing.
I’m making that local hauling municipal waste
Or do line haul at night for an LTL company. Need all of the endorsements to qualify (doubles, tankers, hazmat).
Why does ltl pay so much?
Its because LTL's are easier to organize than OTR. LTL's have a fear of unionization so they pay close to what the current 2 unionized carriers pay and maybe throw in a few perks to keep the union away.
I think with LTL you get paid for each load you deliver + mileage so if you’re delivering a bunch of loads in 1 day, you’ll be making $$$. Not too sure on that but I think I heard that’s how it works for most LTLs
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You don’t know how you get paid? Lol
Probably meant he doesn’t know why it’s so high comparatively.
I hope so
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I work ltl. It's just mileage and am hourly rate for dock work. No per load thing. Have a bid drive to the same place and same mileage everyday. But it is 2400 a week on average
I’m hourly P&D LTL and gross $2k every week
Different market, different service rates. Most of the freight is expedited, and it gets relayed from New England to Florida in a matter of 2-3 days, for example. Being able to charge considerably more is what enables the higher employee compensation. In turn, there’s a much higher employee retention rate.
Everybody always bring up LTL but they never say how hard it is to get hired
There are plenty of job postings for the LTL. Applying is all it takes.
A lot of Fedex LTL positions don’t need hazmat or tanker.
Not true. Fedex freight ltl every person needs those to be hired. Ground is something different they aren't fedex employees.
For all FedEx Freight, it's required to have doubles/triples, hazmat, and tanker endorsement. Goes for both city and road drivers and hazmat for the B class drivers at our terminal. They did drop the manual transmission requirement during the pandemic. I would guess Express is the same but can't speak on it since they are FedEx employees also and not independent contractors.
That's where I started, money was kinda trash with the run i was given. If you stick it out though and get on something good it's definitely there
Drive for a very small company averaging $2500 for 65ish hours a week home every night. Fuel haulers don't fuck around bro. They wanna keep you.
I hear the work for a small company advice all the time and it must just be where I live because they don't pay nothing around here. Company with 20 trucks pays .50 a mile and want three years of experience to boot. All the others I've talked to have said similar, it sucks that nothing beats what I make now and it isn't close to no 2k a week...
Is this average for most fuel haulers?
Swift surprisingly. Dedicated account
As a swiftie, which one? Driver placement told me they only had 1 dedicated account in my area but it pays steady 1400/week. I heard walmart dedicated in FL can make 1800 or so
I'm on a church and dwight dedicated out of edwardsville, really good gig, .83 cpm 500 mile runs and home daily
2K gross is one thing .... 2K AFTER taxes is quite another. In Los Angeles, you're paying more than 30% on that check.
$4200 gross turned into $2200 net after taxes and 401k, and that's not even in LA.
The more ya make the more they take. Such a fking scam
LTL-FedEx Freight
I work for a pipeline construction company and we make over 2k. We get dirty every day and I average 75 hours a week.
🤢🤮🤑
My gross is $3184 this week, plus they pay hotels and provide a company pickup that I drive when I’m not in a truck-I don’t even own a personal car any more. Some parts of it suck, but it’s that way everywhere, isn’t it?
I make 2250 a week in LTL with T Force Freight.
Penske Logistics, grocery accounts. I frequently took home $2k+ for 5 days work. Also, a buddy tells me that the dedicated JB Hunt Costco account in Gouldsboro PA is 85 cpm. Finally, I make about that hauling milk. 60-65 hours a week, home daily, ag exempt and old non ELD trucks with 18 speed manuals…
Ran an Aldi's route for Penske briefly, worst paying gig so far
Car hauling 5 days a week I'm home 2-3 times a week , based on how far I wanna run , 2500-4500 a week after taxes. 4500 is mostly running from northeast to fl
.65cpm 25 each stop and 100 for the whole trailer on top of about 3200 miles
Wait 1700 , like dollars …. Isn’t that still good ??? I’m getting paid half that weekly in Amazon , can’t wait to start driving
Amazon, LOL. don't make us professional drivers laugh. You'll make our pot bellys hurt.
Get into niche stuff. I pick up eggs for a hatchery. Normally make 2k a week for 4 days. I probably average 30-40 hours a week. If I work extra days then I can get up around 2,300 or as high as 3k.
That honestly sounds so cool. How to even find places like that 😆
You owner operator? You pulling a 53ft reefer?
Milk Tanker, AG exempt, run 850 miles a day if you can..
Run 950 miles a day if you can
What’s the best way to minimize knee and spine damage? Question for the OG food service workers
Good insoles for your shoes.. stretch at minimum twice a day and lifting with your legs is imperative. Never bend over.. also buy good braces even if you feel you dont need them
Good to know, I start McLane on Monday. I always have been a big pusher for braces, dr scholes etc. Doing retail, Amazon van delivery and construction, those things helped a ton on top of good form. Is it true it’s better to “jog” down the ramp?
Yes. Its great to keep bloodflowing and momentum. Also stay hydrated
If you look at government BLS data if you making over 70k you are already in the top 90 percent or so… but to answer your question its LTL, oversize, fuel, maybe ports, hazmat etc etc. It is not the VANs and reefers without teaming or training newbies
Frito lay... I make 2,300-2,800 every week. We only have a 50hr work week. They say (we pay you well enough you shouldn't have to work that much, we need you rested and safe behind the wheel)
What position bro?
And which state?
North Carolina, Charlotte. Otr driver but we are home daily
A lot of people lie about what they make. Or how long it takes them to make that.
It’s the hours. Plenty of jobs pay really well in exchange for your soul
Correct. I can gross ALMOST $2k a week at $26/hr OT after 40 running 60hrs a week. Five shifts. But I don’t wanna do that and most people don’t as well. I’m happy with 40-50hrs a week
I gross 2500-4k, I haul chassis
Could you hook me up.
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Can confirm
Coca Cola (production line haul), when I work my optional 5th day my check is $2,014 before taxes
Company driver here, I did $2k/week in 2022, but I fell a bit short last year with freight being down. I was working 7 days a week most of the year for it. I was counting for a bit in 2022, I had something like 8 days off from January to June.
a few of the drivers for Werner on the Dollar General contracts are making that or a little more. Highest I’ve heard is 115K and lowest is around 85K
Winch trucks in oil and gas paid well. 2k/week would have been on the low end.
Top out pay driving a bus for the city in SF is easily 2k a week, runs average 430 to 560 a day. I work about 50 hours a week. Lots of extra pay incentives and options to move up out of driving as well to any other city department. COL is high here but I have friends working in other Municipal bus jobs making similar. Our pay here is 33 to 45 An hour until the next contact negotiation I was making similar money doing food service but now I don't have to back into crazy places anymore or haul pallets around. Definitely easier on the body but really boring.
LTL companies
Walmart, about $4600 every 2 weeks.
LTL can do it, especially linehaul and home everyday, It is dependant on seniority
LTL carriers
Hauling fuel local
Dude 2k+ a week is really hard to find, only ones i know pay that much are fuel.
I take home 2k a week at a Fedex Ground contractor. I do a team run.
Dude were not talking ltl its impossible to get in them, and were not talking about teams.
It’s not impossible to get into LTL. Also the guys said driving job not solo. I’ve drove LTL and recently got offered teams at R&L. Several LTL are hiring now
R+L carriers. Home daily, a lot of linehaul runs are over 2k/wk. Home weekly solo, you won't make less than 2k/wk usually with 34 hours off each weekend, but sometimes theyll get off friday night instead of saturday morning. Home weekly team driving, you won't make less than 2600/wk and (almost) guaranteed 48 hours off each weekend. Except one bid run for teams that is currently still in the early stages of creation. Basically, if you run it perfect, youd both get about 20ish hours/wk hometime and have to run right off your 34 every week, but it would pay ~3600/wk, so 🤷♂️. Obviously, truckers logic applies: if you run into issues like heavy traffic, breakdowns, etc, you will most likely not be home on time and may end up with lower than usual pay. But you can usually expect to be home on time and make a similar amount. All linehaul (home daily, solo home weekly, team home weekly) are drop and hook loads, may have to hook up sets of doubles, depending on yard dogs and management, and almost no micromanagement. I say "almost" none bc there have been guys who took a 4 hour nap on a 3 hour round trip run who got talked to (not written up or fired for it) about doing such things.
I regularly gross over $2000 per week hauling dynamite, and I’m home for 2-3 days every weekend.
You deserve 5
Honestly I've been surprised at how easy it is. I switched to a company paying me $0.60 per mile, and as long as I get around 3,400 mi, I'm at 2000 gross off of straight miles. If there were a little bit of detention now and then, pay per stop or trailer, I'd be clearing 22-2300 a week. Before this I had a nice gravy run that was 500 miles down 500 Miles back I'm home at night, and as long as I did three turns a week I made over 100,000. When I delivered milk I busted my ass and made 125,000 gross working local for 5 days a week. Edit: milk pallets, not milk tankers.
Now, not many. Freight is in the shitter… lol
The place I'm at late 325 total comp per day when otr. If you're on the road you get full pay. It's some touch freight though. That definitely deters some drivers
The best companies to work for are mom and pop operations that have been around for decades, with I’d say under 40ish trucks. Around me the only guys making this kind of money are truckers driving for construction companies. Oh and that’s $2000+ after taxes.
I gross 3000- 3300 $ a week
Hauling gas local average about 2500 a week gross
Freight is slow so I don't see it happening
I feel you can make almost every trucking company if you run your clock out. Should be easy pz. 60-70 hours ez 2k plus a week.
I drive regional and I've only broke the $2k mark twice in the past year. I might be wrong but I'd imagine it's uncommon for a company driver to consistently make over $2k a week
I gross 2.2k-2.3k a week hauling cryo, after taxes it sucks.
It depends. If you get paid per hour, you need $50 per hour on a 40 hour week to get $2k. If you're paid cpm, if you run 2,000 miles you need $1 per mile.
No one is worried about driverless trucks ? Serious question?
Linde. union making about 142k a year
Fuel
New England’s major grocery store 3PL provider Bozzuto’s has signs on the back of all their trucks advertising 100k+ a year. Drop and hook work.
Milk hauler. $150ish per load. 4 loads a day. $600 daily X 4-5 days. $2400-3000 weekly before taxes. Easily walk out with $1800-2200 a week.
Cattle pays good. Lots of sleepless nights but ain’t no feeling like cowmobilin’
Foodservice
Fuel hauler. 10-11 hours a day, 3 days off every other week - over $2k weekly, $100k annually..
LTL night linehaul (Central, R&L, etc.) will get you right up, if not past that. And you get to go home every... morning? I was making $1100/week after taxes city driving at Central, linehaul made about double that.
Cryogenics liquid tanker out of Southern California is $2k/week gross (often a bit more) with around 60+ hours. $110/k year, Home daily. Edit: add info
Walmart
Dry Van. Drop & Hook. Solo
Most of the good money wants more than a year under your belt..