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Apparently, America has a shortage of truck drivers.\u00a0 To such a degree that at least for private fleets,\u00a0the average trucker salary<\/a>is\u00a0$73,000<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to specify what exactly I make a year, but it\u2019s not $73,000, and I have to imagine driving long distances is vastly less prone to dealing with office bullshit than my job is.<\/span><\/p>\n The amazing thing is the allegation that the reasoning for such a shortage is simply the fact that there aren\u2019t enough people qualified to be truck drivers actually applying for these jobs.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to assume it\u2019s as simple as driving a Honda Civic for 12 hours straight, because I know that at least there\u2019s the double clutch to consider and the sheer knowledge of physics that comes into play when traversing varying elevations.\u00a0 But it still boils down to the fact that when all the training and preparation is done, it\u2019s basically sitting in a gigantic car, driving things from point A to point B.<\/span><\/p>\n Just how much qualifications are required to be truck drivers?\u00a0 They certainly can\u2019t be that much, if the people driving all these trucks are the same people I see getting lost on the country backroads in the areas surrounding my home, or the litany of dumbasses who are crashing their cargo of food stuffs all over Metro Atlanta highways.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seriously, $73,000 is some pretty decent scratch, for getting to drive around all day and night.\u00a0 Sure, the hours can be long, it might suck to be away from home for long stretches of time, and there\u2019s always anxiety and rage whenever it comes to stupid traffic, but at least the compensation is more fairly respectable.<\/span><\/p>\n I wish I could be a truck driver for like a year.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what the qualifications are, but I\u2019m decently educated, have a clean driving record, and have the stamina to drive long distances.\u00a0 I\u2019d pocket $73,000, and I would use all that time sitting in my big rig to try and do something like Rosetta Stone teach myself some new languages, or be read a litany of audio books.\u00a0 All while driving through the highways of America, seeing some sights, eating some new foods, and not worrying about shit like meetings, work emails and people who think they can do my job better than I can.\u00a0 A year gives me enough time to see what it\u2019s like, try and enlighten myself in the process, and not feel like I\u2019m away from home that much.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently, America has a shortage of truck drivers.\u00a0 To such a degree that at least for private fleets,\u00a0the average trucker salaryis\u00a0$73,000.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to specify what exactly I make a year, but it\u2019s not $73,000, and I have to imagine driving long distances is vastly less prone to dealing with office bullshit than my … Continue reading Truck drivers make how much?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,37,15],"class_list":["post-41459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-job","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41461,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions\/41461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}