Looking Both Ways Truck Drivers Expect to be Paid

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How Much Money Should Owner Operators Expect to Make? How Much Money Should Drivers Expect to Make? Some tips to help you make more.

The main factor in pay is the type of product the trucking company hauls. The Expedited Freight Industry is a specialty niche of the Trucking Industry. It operates very differently in many aspects from typical truckload freight. Flatbed trucking may pay more than Dry Van freight. Household goods movers may make more.

Having a great understanding of the segment of the trucking industry you work in affects pay. Would you go to an LTL company and question how many miles are you going to get a week? Do you think that Expediters work Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm? If you do not understand how the business segment actually works (not how you think it should work) than you most likely won't make good money. Did you know that semi-drivers hauling Refrigerated (Reefer) trailers may have to pay "lumpers" to unload their trailers? Most refer drivers understand their industry segment is not "no touch" freight. Expedited freight usually pays very well but experiences fluctuations in business levels due to supply and demand variances from other industries outside of trucking.

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[Greg]

Great article JohnMueller . Someone should post this in the newbie section.

 

[FlyingVan]

Very good article.

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[Moot]

If you want to make very good money, paid vacations, full health insurance and no truck payments or maintenance worries, go into LTL as a company driver.

If hernias, sore backs and crippled knees is your thing, get into HHG.

If you like heights and flying with a tarp, flatbedding would be an excellent career choice.

If you are into torturing animals, like the smell of manure and drive a truck with lots of lights and 10" straight pipes try livestock hauling.

When you have done some or all of the above and saved some money, buy a van and go expediting.