I want to be a trucker!!!

I have had all A's this entire year besides an 89 or so here and there. I do my schooling online so i have lots of free time to do internet research and what not. If i were to choose a career such as being a surgeon, I would borrow money from the government and get scholarships. I figure after my schooling, I'd be making enough to pay everything back eventually. The military is also an option, free schooling. But i highly doubt i'd be able to study to become a doctor in the military unless i joined the reserves or something. Even still, I don't know how realistic that is. I'd much rather go to college and learn as much about business management and stocks as possible so that I can apply that to trucking and be highly successful one day.

 

To be honest.. I'm not too sure how I'd get the money that would allow me to start a business that makes that much...Any ideas? I'm sure it's certainly possible. There's also still the option of borrowing money from the government. I hear that many new businesses borrow money from the government or something, basically the government invests in your business. I'm not too sure if what I'm saying is correct, but that's an idea.

 

There's also the fact that i'll be living cheaply. All i'll need for the road is a 4g mifi from a cell phone company, which would run me perhaps $50 a month, a cheap flip phone, and a nice simple laptop. Using that $50 internet hotspot, I'll be able to watch tv and what not on my laptop. I could use baby wipes when a shower isn't easily accessible, get a gym membership that lets me shower at any particular gym around the country (such as any planet fitness). Basically, once starting off with trucking I'll look for any way to save up money and add those savings to a bank account and let it build up over time. I figure that this would help me greatly. I'm not too sure what other costs would be factored into all of this. Would i need to pay for my own gas? Would i need to pay a car note for the truck? etc. I'm a pretty cheap guy so I'm sure I wouldn't have any problems saving money. Once i get the basic savings down and get another truck, I would thus be making more money so it should be easier to get the third truck and so on right? Make money right off the bat, save it, purchase a truck, make even more money than you did the first time, than purchase another truck since you'd be able to afford it at that point. And at some point during that time, when my business is doing pretty well, I'll began to purchase stocks and invest, hoping that I start getting a lot more money from the investments. This is perhaps not as simple as I'm making it out to be lol.

 

But to be honest, getting rich was only an idea, not entirely a goal in itself. I would rather be living comfortably, than spending half my life chasing that first million. I would be perfectly happy if i made 80k+ a year trucking at some point. Is this realistic assuming i eventually purchase my own truck?
I hear that the starting salaries for new truckers is usually around $40k. Sometimes i've even seen it less than that in some places. I hear it depends on your location.