Is my plan viable?

One thing I am not sure you understand about our industry , is that our hourly pay is miserable. We make up for this by working very long hours. If you are going to be local and making 90k a year, you are only going to be home long enough to sleep and shower.
I enjoy this kind of work because I do not work year round. When I am a trucker, I am only a trucker. You are never really a guy with hobbies or a social life of any kind. You are not the same kind of person as a guy with a 40 hour work week.
Since this is the case, I feel its better to be over the road and not pay for housing. You can actually get a bit more time to relax on the road because there is no commute . When you wake up you are already at your workplace.
Trucking no matter what part you get into , is not a normal job at all.

 

I mean this with absolutely no disrespect to the OP but, to quote my Dad who had every license there was, "there's nothing more useless than a pilot if there's nothing to fly."
The airlines are suffering right now and cutting labor costs is one way for them to delay the inevitable collapse or takeover by another line.
An airline pilot's job isn't what it used to be. Kinda like trucking, no?

 

I'm making this reply out of courtesy. I no longer wish to be a part of this discussion any longer.

 

Yeah, it's a rough deal. I have no idea what it costs now to start from O time and get the ATP but I'd hate to be doing it. The job stability just isn't there and I don't think it will ever be again.
Look at the last twenty or so years with all the mergers and bankruptcies.
I had an uncle who flew for Braniff. He'd just finished 747 ground school when they folded up. There just weren't any jobs then and he wound up flying a Beech 18 hauling freight at night for lousy wages. He wound up going back to school for his A&P and never did really make the mental adjustment from flying them to fixing them.

 

Put in a year or two and become the captain of your own truck, you'll be happy you did.