The reason we work so hard as truck drivers is to drive home that serious scratch, the cheddar, the bones, you know…the dead presidents in our pockets—MONEY. But how much money can you actually make behind the wheel? Negotiating rates that are based around mileage cents-per-mile instead of hours can be a smart career move for drivers. These are all normal factors that play into the pay rates of ,ake driving. How do you do it? Well, typically, earning that much in the profession is pretty uncommon. Second, you can do a job tankets no one else CAN. Owner-operators bring home about this .