Fastest Way To $6 Figures In Trucking?

Fastest way to 6 figures in trucking? Start with 7.

 

There are a few who see those numbers, but the list will be short. When the oilfield was booming, it was very possible there. It can be done, but 100k net is a pretty high mark for a truck driver.

Do your research and look for the O/O's grossing $200k on 100k miles. That will be the numbers you'll have to produce to have a chance at your goal. Expect to spend a LOT of time in that truck to do it, especially in the beginning stages. Once you are with a good carrier and learn their system, lanes, etc, you might be able to back off some, but to net 100k year after year, will still be a tall order.

 

Get married, have your wife get her CDL, go to work for a company that pays top wages and has primarily team freight, live in the truck with your wife for 50 weeks out of the year.

 

just keep you nose clean and get the time and experience in, the money wil follow. Highly recommend starting an IRA and also putting some money away in Certificates of Deposit. Some people recommend Annuities and LIfe Insurance. But you can put away $5500 a year right now for your IRA.

Anything left over put in a 1 year CD and when it matures, take what you saved and double it into another 1 year CD and keep doing that with extreme discipline, in just a few years you could pay cash for houses and cars without having to owe the man for 30 years.

 

Best way to make 6 figures in trucking is to start with 7.

You beat me to it broski

 

Id hate to make that much as an owner op. Don't like diamond swift drives make that make lmao.

If you're not making over 100k as an owner op with ur own authority truck and trailer you need to stop hauling for cheap or sell out.

 

Yep, very easy

 

I'm an O/O bull hauler in my first year I will far exceed 100 net.

You want that money get into a niche field as a company driver for a small company and hone your craft. Then go buy a truck spec'd out for the work you want to do and you'll break 6 figs no problem. If you do good by the owner of that small company odds are he will help you out with getting that first rig if you lease onto him with it. I started at 21 in your situation and now at 23 I'm where you want to be.

 

You'll have to give up the getting home stuff if you want to net 100k in trucking. Will it be possible at some point in the future? Maybe. But you better plan on it not happening until you can prove otherwise.

That 72k at A&R is what they advertise? You may or may not make that. I e looked at their o/o pay...and it sucks imo. You would be very lucky to net more than a company driver.

Whatever you do, be very, very careful going into a lease purchase. I'm sure Knight has one and I know nothing about it, but my guess would be that it sucks...lol.