How much can I save up as a 22 year old trucker if I live on the road?

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  1. insipidtoast

    insipidtoast Heavy Load Member

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    Also, just to add a hunch: I don't think many millenials are attracted to trucking to begin with.
     
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  3. RedRover

    RedRover Road Train Member

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    "Actually we own it." - Sincerely, The Tax Assessor
     
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  4. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Trucking is absolutely a young man's ball game. You young ones will do things I will be reluctant to do at my age. (I'll still do it, but it's not pretty and should really not be expose to society with that sweating and all... ugh)

    By the same token, it's not too difficult to scrub the shine off the cherubs and break em in properly and professionally so that they will raise up trucking companies and employ ten thousand people 30 years from now. Those are the ones I want in the industry. Aint America awesome?
     
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  5. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    You are right. Fail to pay the revenuer and it's sold with the Law coming to kick your homeless ### out.

    Ive always been digging around that particular part of our Laws, someone put that in and we are not free because of that. I have a lot of learning to do.
     
  6. DustMyBroom

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    I had a nine year long black hole on my work history due to my fathers terminal illness. I was his arms and legs and my physically handicapped mother was his memory. I had some semesters at the local university sprinkled in, and I supplied them with a couple of numbers to call to verify what I was doing. They pulled me out of orientation to question me on it, but I was on the truck a couple of hours later.
     
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  7. milehunter43

    milehunter43 Heavy Load Member

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    Melton has driver-facing cameras.
     
  8. RedRover

    RedRover Road Train Member

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    Only operational when in operation. I don't mind them. Bet your ### they would be in my own personal cmv if I was an o/o. Litigious society we live in, odds are better to have at least one accident than not have at least one, and the burden is on you to save your career by proving that you didn't even go 6 seconds without checking your mirrors, let alone that you're not smoking and eating a sandwich, while shifting and surfing fb.
     
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  9. RedRover

    RedRover Road Train Member

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    They should be, they're lazy as #### and love to sit on their ### with a controller in their hand lol
     
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    Be it far from me to say anything trite. I have respect and love for what you have done these 9 years. We are cancer survivors ourselves. Two times over actually. One in remission and another ongoing.

    Im glad they put you into work. 9 years is something not to be thrown away. My ex is dealing with a sick mother. And it's tearing her apart. Im literally her rock besides God and I don't know if she can hold it together. The state wont help and mom made a mistake filing on her ex husband's income instead of accepting medicaid and normal social security that would have absolutely paid for everything at her age approaching 90. I just don't want to deal with it, but be that it may the cards don't go that way sometimes. On dark days I get mean because battle is a terrible thing when you are trying to help someone live a little bit better sometimes.
     
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  11. milehunter43

    milehunter43 Heavy Load Member

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    To each his own; only way I would drive for a company with one is if I were driving a bus...to show if somebody assaulted me, etc.
     
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