I was an OTR truck driver for a year for a big company called Prime. This was like a decade ago. I made around 44 grand in a year for around 60 to 80 hours a w

I was an OTR truck driver for a year for a big company called Prime. This was like a decade ago. I made around 44 grand in a year for around 60 to 80 hours a week of work. You get paid 'per mile' but you spend many hours at docks unloading. There were constantly times I would wait in a dock all day to unload and since the truck wasn't moving, that was considered my 'time off'. Then they would finally unload you and you would have been considered to have rested 8 hours and have to drive 10 more hours even though you didn't sleep because you were waiting for your name to be called to unload. On the upside, got to see a lot of cool stuff around the country and driving those big trucks was badass. I was on bad terms with my dispatcher because if I got someplace early I would spend that extra time sightseeing instead of delivering the load early. After a while, being away from home sucked massively because you have such little time off in those big companies. I think that was a 'paying your dues' type job and if I stuck at it there are better trucking jobs out there. Tech hasn't been a walk in the park but it at least pays really well.