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Nah. Most drivers can't make close to that.
But truck driving is not the place for someone with an hourly mentality. The lines between working and not working are often blurry, even though NTSB has defined them in their own way.
I drove for 5 years, 750,000 miles. Let me just comment - it's not a talent, it's a skill. No one is born knowing how to fly through Atlanta traffic at 70MPH while staying in all the right lanes and changing lanes when prudent. You have to practice all that to make it happen.
Yeah but what year did you drive?
I used to work for $3.15 an hour when it was minimum wage too. Obviously its gone up!
I'm curious if the Walmart trucks are automatic & governed.
That likely depends on the carrier. My ex-wife used to drive for Schneider National and they often pulled WalMart trailers. Her cabs were governed. I know some of the carriers are not. And of course WalMart pulls some of their own trailers.
Local Community Colleges around here dropped their CDL training courses years ago, and I remember just before, the academic advisors stopped recommending trucking as a career, (mainly due to self drive trucks taking over eventually), this was years ago, they have still not brought back the CDL training courses.
I guess they figure its one of those things that there is still a need for temporarily, but not a good idea to start someone young in it right now as a life long career.
Not to mention that an at fault accident can end your job AND you have people on the road who are TRYING to get into an accident with you for insurance fraud... You have DoT regulations to adhere to so far as log books and all that.. You have DoT regulations so far as health.. If you're diabetic, on insulin.. You're out. Drug testing is strict.
Most truck drives nowadays are.. Dare I say.. Professionals. The days of the 70's and pep pills and the like are pretty much in the past.
There's.. Actually a.. "niche market" of married folks who tandem drive. It's not highly common, but it's not unheard of, either.
I need this 70K lbs transformer currently in Spokane to be in Miami 8AM Thursday... It can be done by truck but it is going to cost you.
Had a load of pallet rack the mfg screwed up on big time. They paid an arm and a leg to get it to me "only" 3 days late.
Kind of funny when you think about it though. Perhaps a city with a median income of a truck driver at WalMart isn't the market. I mean, I don't disagree. I hate shopping at WalMart but maybe I shouldn't.
WalMart has always paid generous salaries though. There's this whole narrative about how awful WalMart is for coming in and burying the mom and pop stores. Which is true, it tends to do that. But for the average employee it's better. WalMart pays better than the mom and pop stores do. The only employers I've had who have tried to make me come in off the clock and work for them unpaid have all been mom and pop, either retail or restaurants. Fortunately I've never needed to keep those jobs for long and I probably wouldn't last long there anyway. I know a couple people I went to college with who went to WalMart on the corporate side and are still there. It's good money, stable job, good company to work for. That doesn't mean stocking shelves at WalMart or working warehouse is anyone's dream job. It's still stocking shelves and warehousing, just there's worse places to do that and better ones. WalMart is far from the worst.
Salaries for part time are not same as for full time
Salaries for floor people not same as white collar
Lot of WalMart depends on the store manager
Some are really overworking their employees to shine to area supervisors and get bonuses and promotions
There's.. Actually a.. "niche market" of married folks who tandem drive. It's not highly common, but it's not unheard of, either.
One of my supervisors at TX Dept of Health and Human Services in the 90’s had done that with her husband—and when she retired from the state she thought she might go back to it
But it is a hard way to make a living and you basically have two people splitting a job so your pay is less
110K is 2100 a week/ over $52 an hour but not an easy job. The hours/work schedule are likely very grueling and oh yeah you have to have the talent to drive a 75 ft long tractor trailer!
I bet if you are a good truck driver 110k is an insult.
Truck drivers do not drive 40 hours a week. They drive 70 hours a week. Which is $30 an hour, not $52.
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