Not Looking to get rich

If you're not looking to get rich, then you're looking in all the right places!
Your 8 hr/day expectation is a bit unrealistic, though.

 

You'd have to average 70-80 mph to get 500-550 miles per day! Hammer down driver!

 

There are things you haven't accounted for... load and unload time, the 14 hour clock, traffic and weather conditions affecting your average speed, the fact that you're looking at companies which govern their trucks to run slow as ####, shippers who receive by appointment only, etc. There'll be days when you can take it nice and easy, and drive for only eight hours (or even less, sometimes), but don't expect it to be the norm.

 

Pretty funny stuff!

What is an 8 hour day - anyway? Is that like an earth day on Jupiter kind of thing?

Its been 60 hour weeks in 5 days for me - for years. And I thought I had a half decent job.

 

I see where you're approaching this from - but it doesn't always work out like you'd think - or plan.

 

That's some funny stuff right there, I tell ya.

 

Loads dictates the hrs you drive.Sometimes no hrs for the day somedays half a day then other days a full shift.But Werner,if you rather sit more then drive,thats the company for you.

 

Short answer? No.
Think: "meat grinder".