Truck driving is not "BIG MONEY"

Cuz they're a troll. All 3 threads she started were troll posts and people bit.

 

Sorry......the guy down the road from your son. Had to go back and re-read your post.

 

No problem.

 

It was just a run of luck.

 

I went to college and have a bachelors of math and science from Rutgers. Never did anything with it. I been driving for over 20yrs now. I made $202k gross last year and I'm not an owner operator.

 

The only time I've made decent money driving a truck ($65K-$75K a year) was doing really crappy and dangerous manual labor working type driving jobs and working 60+ hours a week like a servant. Too tired to do anything after work and too tired to do anything on the weekend.

Jobs were: backbreaking unloading and delivering food, cleaningrancid smelly ### grease traps, dangerous, dirty and health harming oilfield work. Over the road is not worth it for someone who likes to have a life when they tell me I'll make 80K a year, working 2 weeks straight with a few days off in between.. I make basically national average annual salary now doing a line haul run. Easy work, but financially the salary just allows one to stand still.

I feel like those that have the good driving jobs and make good money just stumbled upon it. It's not like I can move jobs every 1 month to find that 'dream' driving job. For 5 years one time I tried to find that dream job, I jumped a job every 6 months. At the end, I started getting turned down because I had too many jobs on my resume. I've been at my place for over 2 years now getting my resume stable, but I need to get out of trucking, its just such a underpaid, unrespected "career", its no wonder there is a driver shortage.

Sucks when someone ask what you do and you say your a truck driver and they look around and say weirdly "oh...ok...thats cool......" Shouldn't they say "thats awesome! thank you for your valuable and irreplaceable service of which not a single person in this country can do without". Now when someone just ask what I do, I just say I'm an entrepreneur and doing web marketing and sales, I get much more positive interactions with people now. Sad.

 

I've never seen any job opening (non owner op) that pays that in the 8 years I've been driving. Are you heavy hauling, special hauling? Thats the owner type of stuff I've heard that does pay pretty handsomely, but hard to break into

 

Specialized. TV/Movie business. Very localized also, only couple a areas of the country it can be done. NY, CA, GA. It sucks that it's so tied to these area. Lots of hours too. 60-80/wk is normal.

Music concert guys make some good cash too. They travel all over the country. Look up RoadShow - DRIVE WITH US - Roadshow Services

 

Hmmm, I never even thought about that type of stuff. I live in San Diego right now, wouldn't mind working in LA. Sure as heck beats the pay I'm at now. They haven't even given me a raise in over 2 years, excuses every time. This time the excuse was "Covid", but yet their business is booming...