Anybody on here currently drive Tankers?

LITTLEB23 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 02:18 AM

Just wondering if anyone on here drives Tankers or any other Hazardous Material Trucks? I heard that some of those guys get paid $35/hr or close to $60,000 to $70,000 a year, like for companies like Kag West, Williams TankLines, etc. Anyway, is this true?

brtecson · #2 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 11:03 PM

60 to 70k sounds about right. 35/hr is a stretch, maybe their time and a half is 35/hr. see this thread:

Anybody deliver fuel?

LITTLEB23 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 01:58 AM

Also i was talking with some guys at my work and they were saying WM transfer drivers(not the Class B Garbage Truck Drivers)make somewhere around $30/hr Regular Time and they get ot after 8 i know that for sure!

LITTLEB23 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 01:59 AM

How much does 60 to 70k come out to per hour?

tramp1155 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by LITTLEB23

How much does 60 to 70k come out to per hour?

If you are talking OTR tankers..Figure 70 hours a week.... So take 70,000 dollars divide that by 52 and divide that by 70 it comes out to $19.23 per hour....
I pulled tanker regionally here in the summer we hauled liquid asphalt it payed pretty good but in the winter we pulled mollasses and that was almost an insult to haul as far as being cheap freight..I was paid a percentage so I felt the glory and defeat of the trucking rates game...

LITTLEB23 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-31-2007, 09:42 PM

No i'm talking local, not otr, Kag West, Williams Tank Lines, etc. I heard the drivers get paid aleast 60 to 70k doing local stuff.