Can you live comfortably on a truckers salary?

If you're a single guy and your homeless and you need a place to live like a truck then you can live comfortably driving for almost anybody. If you have a family to support it gets a little more complicated.

 

Reminds me of this

 

That depends. How much money do you make now - and do you consider yourself to be living comfortably? If you are making 35 to 40K now, then you'll make about the same your first year. Just like in every business you start at the bottom of the pay scale and work your way up - unless you are a CEO, but then you wouldn;t be considering driving a truck anyways but running the company.

 

Find a company that pays well and work your full 70 hours a week and it's possible to make 100k a year. My Father almost makes 100k a year or does now doing linehaul. Than again that is not OTR.

I make over 60k a year and don't run very hard if I did I would be making over 70k a year but than again I'm rail so that is a difference.

Considering student loan debt is around 4 trillion dollars that's probably a really bad idea unless he or she is going to college for a trade skill.

 

Different parts of the country are different but in my findings local drivers make more than OTR, yes, there are exceptions like specialized stuff. In my area most local guys make $21-$27/hr and get OT after 8hrs a day and 40hrs in a week. Many local driving jobs are Union and have insane (many times free) benefits to go along with it. It adds up REAL fast! For OTR there are some guys in the 6 figure range no question but they also trade their lives for it.

Cops make crap, we've got some retired ones on this board, I'm sure they'll back that up. Not saying they can't take home a lot of money in a year, because they can, I've got cops in my family and a bunch of them are making around $120k+ a year....BUT that's not their salary! That's thanks to overtime when they get it and mainly details which are all done on THEIR time after work! If you do the math on what they make vs the hours they work it's far from impressive. Those guys deal with the scum of the earth for bad pay and if they ever screw up their department may hang them out to dry rather than deal with the politics, screw that. I wanted to be a cop for years but smartened up. Got a 98 on the Mass State Police exam and got called up, It was 2 years after the test at that point and I was making around $80k/year at the time, starting trooper pay was I think $53k, no chance of OT or details for a couple years. No thanks!