Taylor Swift Reportedly Thanks Her ‘Eras Tour’ Truck Drivers With $100,000 Bonuses
01.08.2023 - 18:19
/ usmagazine.com
Taylor Swift is quite the “Lover” after gifting truck drivers on The Eras Tour with $100,000 bonuses.
Swift, 33, reportedly thanked her for transporting the tour’s equipment across the country throughout the U.S. leg before her second performance in Santa Clara, California, on Saturday, July 29, per TMZ. With around 50 drivers in her tour crew, Swift reportedly dished out $5 million in monetary gifts.
The outlet also reported that Swift gave her Eras Tour band, dancers, caterers, lighting and sound technicians and other staff members bonuses, though the amount they received is unknown.
Swift showed her gratitude days before she is set to play her final Eras shows in the U.S. at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. Following her six-show stay at the California venue, Swift will head to South America with opener Sabrina Carpenter for a slew of shows through November 26.
Swift will later take her tour across the pond beginning in February 2024, playing over 60 shows across Japan, Australia, Singapore, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Austria and the U.K.
The Eras Tour kicked off in Glendale, Arizona, on March 17. Since then, Swift has performed her three-hour setlist in dozens of cities across the U.S. The tour, however, got off to a rocky start as fans had trouble securing tickets via Ticketmaster due to high demand late last year.
“There are a multitude of reasons why people had such a hard time trying to get tickets and I’m trying to figure out how this situation can be improved moving forward,” Swift wrote in a lengthy November 2022 Instagram Story. “We asked [Ticketmaster], multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could. It’s truly