making big bucks driving!!

I just read a post by a wanna be driver and made a remark about messing with the logs. I'll be the first to admit(when away from DOT that is)that my logs get a little fine tuning done to them on a regular basis. But I bring home a mighty nice paycheck each week and home every weekend.Mine are never way out of wack like some drivers out here. I'm talking a matter of hours not days.I have known alot of longhaul drivers to be a couple days ahead of thier logbooks.Will pay cash for fuel so the company doesn't get anything with a time or date on it. When a driver starts driving 5000 or more miles as a solo per week, you can bet they can't match things and probably running at least two logs. Alot of companies have a limit as to how many miles a driver can log in one 11 hour period. The one I drive for said we can't average more than 61 mph or 671 miles for 11 hrs of driving. You can drive more than that in one day but the average has to stay below 61 mph.I know very few drivers that don't cheat at least a little on the books. Just so newbies and wannabes know you can log more than 11 hours in one 24 hour period. As long as there's a 10 hour break in there you can legally drive more than 11 hours. I may get some rebuttal on that but it can be done.I know because I have done 12+ hours of driving in one day. It's just mighty hard on the body to put those kind of hours in on a regular basis.
Like I said at the beginning of this post,I bring home a mighty nice check each week and my driver manager and customer service knows what I will and won't do. In other words, I payed my dues and proven to them what I can do. Now I almost never get garbage loads. The drivers that just hired on will get stuck with loads that may require some sitting around.My wife drives regional as well and this year we are looking at a combined gross income over $100,000. Not too shabby for regional company drivers that are home every weekend!!So we don't sit around at all. Many longhaulers don't make over $50,000/year and are out for weeks or months at a time. This business, like any other, is just a matter of what your willing to do to make a living. We are doing pretty good. We own a nice home,a boat, a snowmobile, a Honda Goldwing and looking to get a second bike, a 2001 Chevy Tahoe and a 2002 Monte Carlo. We don't have kids so we spoil our nieces and nephews. Teach them some bad habits,load em up with candy and soda then say here ya go mom and dad. Then jump in the truck and get out of town!!
So you can make some decent money out here,it's just a matter of what your willing to do.

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