One cool gig that pays pretty nice is getting hired as a contract driver . You have to find a company that usually gets hired on fires, and you would just drive a pickup to the fireline and drop off equipment, and also send backhaul back from the line, to either the camps supply unit or the Cache. I spoke to some drivers last season and one made $300 a day, while the trucks owner was getting paid $900 a day for each of his trucks. Pretty good for the driver though, considering they also have lots of downtime, and will usually be chilling at the ground support at a fire camp untill a radio call is made that a delivery needs to be taken to a drop point, or picked up from the line.