>>806472I'm normally in a KW
>>806479I do local.
>>806545Depends what you do and what company you work for. I do local and deliver dat Pepsi. Kinda a bust-ass job, but I have been there a couple years and have a lot of it figured out so it isn't quite as bad most days. When I started I didn't have much trucking experience and if I wanted to sleep in my own bed at night and still make some money, I had to do something like that.
"Over The Road" or OTR, that's the cross country guys who sleep in their trucks. The job is pretty easy but can be frustrating. Just read the truckerfag threads on /o/ and you will hear horror stories. A lot of that depends on the company you work for. As a company driver, driving their trucks an everything, you can expect to make ~$30k-$40k the first year, maybe a little more as you get the hang of it and get on the dispatcher's good side. If you do flatbed or tank work with some experience, you could do a little better. But the best way to make money OTR is to buy your own truck and become an "owner-operator" and make $100k+ easy if you know what you are doing.
Staying local as a new driver, you could drive for a shitty garbage company and make $30k-$35k or drive a straight truck delivering liquor or whatever for the same, if not a little more. Or you could get a job like mine and make $40k-$60k depending on what company you work for and what your route is like. I do a little over $50k, but there are newer guys and slower guys who are probably at $40k-$45k, and then dudes who have routes with a ton of cases (commission) and work some Saturdays can be getting close to $60k.
Overall, the money isn't great and the industry has gotten a little fucked up in recent years with the economy. But if you aren't in a position where you can spend 4yrs+ and lots of $$$ on college, trucking is better than retail or food service 90% of the time.
