From the road...

How much do team drivers make?

 

Now we're talkin'. Leave enough cargo space for the bikes, roll into the track with your best BJ and the Bear 53' rig.....aaahhhhh yeah.

 

$300 to fill with fuel, $500 each tire. That's what I think when I hear owner/operator. No idea on insurance costs.

But I am sure it could be done.

 

Not sure, but the ads I have seen are talking about $70-80k a year.

That is good money until you remember that is for 70 hour weeks, not 40 hour weeks.

 

Make her ride in the trailer!

 

You see family and friends every day, hot showers when you want one (with no shower shoes!), and sleep in a nice bed. You also have a full kitchen to work with.

 

I didn't realize I was whining. Sorry.

I made what I thought was the best choice to support my family after the shop closed. This has the best potential to make money.

 

I've leraned that after doing anything for a while, most jobs or something about them, will suck after a while. My hardest part now is waking up in the morning and tolerating co-workers. So consider yourself lucky!

 

Give yourself props...you took the initiative to go through a school, flip your life/lifestyle upside down to provide for your family.

Maybe in a few yrs you can find a kickass regional driving job that'll pay the bills?

Companies want drivers to have that OTR experience first, right? It's damn near mandatory i thought.

 

My buddy used to drive tankers, got paid by the load. He now bumps docks and gets paid $24hr, he works 60plus hours a week

 

So which job one paid more? I was working on the road that went right in front of a Marathon refinery/storage yard. Its not actually a refinery, but the gas comes off of barges and put into storage tanks, then tankers are filled up and they go straight to the gas stations. So they are hauling a finished gasonline product. I would see the same tankers come and go all day....Looked like they were making 4-5 loads a day. Figure they get at least $200 load? That's $800-1000 a day. I heard they can make $200k a year.

By the time I'm 62, i'm not looking to make 6 figures. Don't know if i'll physically be able to make 6 figures doing what i do, unless they put me in management in the next few yrs.

 

Let me double check with him and see, he has til me but I forgot

 

Jeez that is awful...where do you work? You should give your boss a piece of your mind...or pie.

 

Whenever I get in an unavoidable traffic jam, I always look for the lane with the most truckers in it. I guess I just ass/u/med that they were all CBing and communicating which lane(s) are blocked ahead. Not true?

 

I know a guy that makes damn near 50K a year scooping dog shit 6-7 hours a day 5 days a week. And he's not the company owner, but a commission employee. Granted, he didn't start at 50K, but after 7 years he's the senior guy with the cherry routes.