UPS Freight Diary:

Not a clue as to why. Glad they are the K/W sleeper I had was the worst truck I've ever been in here.

 

Our kenworth's are rattletraps, glad we are going to the Cascadias.

 

Considering i use to run around 2800 miles pulling Oversize to reach that kind of pay. Your doing just fine. Lol

 

Right. It's only lame compared to 100k+ drivers. There are still drivers out there who sleep in a truck for weeks at a time who take a whole year to make what he has in a little over 6 months.

 

Here's another way to illustrate my point: my wife has a PhD (roughly 10 years of post-secondary education) and is called "Doctor _____" at work by her colleagues and clients, and she has earned just a couple grand more than @Russian Rabbit has so far this year. Maybe some perspective is in order.

Those of us who make really good money tend to forget where we came from, forget how much better we have it than most other truck drivers, and not realize we are actually in the top tier of earners in this country. I make more than most college graduates I know, including many master's degree holders and some PhDs. I'm pretty grateful that despite dropping out of college myself, I've been able to do very well with this career.

 

Removing most liberal arts degree holders that I know I’m far behind I think I make the least of all my close peers and im at 46k so far this year. Now I am light years ahead of all the guys I decided to dropout of college with. But shockingly all my hs diploma only no college whatsoever are killing it one realtor does about 170k, one is a finance manager at a ford dealer does almost 300k and he was by far the dumbest, and another in commercial plumbing sales does close to 200k also.

 

I’d love to use my college degree and have “normal” hours being a teacher but then we wouldn’t have the house in the area we are in. I make almost double what a high school teacher brings in. But having summers off would be sweet.

 

Well said. My wife has a masters and I made more than her when I worked for UPS and I make about the same now as a welder. There are some very good options out there that people often don't consider.