Trucking Is A Waste Of Life | OTR Trucking | Trucker Life
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I’m a lawyer, dude and this feels like a waste of life. Trust me, you’ll feel this way in any job.
hi...I thought being a lawyer is one of the best things ever
What case did handle ?
So true…ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS GO A LONG WAY!
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Your so right
I am an OTR team driver. Driving 5 days a week and 2 days at home, when I am home I packed all lunch, dinner , fruits and snacks + 4 time laundry + cleaning so no time to rest or getting my nails done lol. Yes it’s difficult so we will do only 4 years. After 4 years, house will be paid off and have some cash +hopefully a rental property too.
It’s very difficult for me as a women but I will and I can do it 🙏🏼 Cheers for all hard workers 💫
Hi, if you don’t mind me asking, what company are you doing team driving . I would like to do team too. 5 year of experience . Thank you.
@@franciscoalmonte6953 I work for the FedEx contractor . We get $.95 per mile. We make $230k an year. I am not sure how long this transportation pays good but we try our best to save $$$.
I think solo pays good too like $.80 per miles these days.
I am a new driver ( I was a hairstylist before ) so I need my bf’s help so we need to do team drive.
Team drive is very challenging bc you are not able to have quality sleeps. Feel like sleeping on a washing machine.
Driving solo and have a wise woman so she doesn’t waste your money is also a winning game !!
@@EllieTheTrucker thanks 🙏🏼 I’m in the look for a good company to do team driving for at least 2 years.
@@franciscoalmonte6953 You are welcome 🤗 you are a hard worker and you can do it 👍🏼
Ellie can I talk to you please
its all about individual situations. Trucking really aint for everyone. but for me? Best decision i've ever made. Never married, no kids, i'm an introvert and a gamer. I have a laptop and a ps4 in the truck. Whenever im stuck at a shipper for 4 hours I work on writing code, take spanish lessons, or just play games on the ps4. On my 34's I get rental cars, go to casinos, and just explore where I just happen to be. Being a nomad works well for me, and I always have money in my pocket. I'll never go back to a 9to 5 man.
sold
Is online multiplayer gaming possible in a truck with the new consoles like Series X or Ps5 ??
@@CensorTube84yea it’s possible, just make sure you have like a hotspot or something to get you connected online
Sounds like what I'll be doing after Winter passes, I'll be going to Prime Inc driving school.
@@TLACY606I'm thinking of going to Wilson Logistics next year
I started out as a over the road driver. Did over the road for over 8 years gone for weeks and months at a time. I enjoyed it when I started trucking. After a while I met my fiance as a over the road driver she lived in Kansas and I lived in Massachusetts. After things got serious between us I bought my own truck got married to my fiance and we moved to myrtle Beach south Carolina together and we started a life together and I started doing regional work close to home and take weekends off. My point is being over the road can bring things to your life. If I was never over the road I would have never met my wife and changed my life for something better. However after a while I did get tired of being over the road. I like doing regional better because I'm home often and enjoy my life now and actually have a life outside the truck and the road.
Wow good story bro
This is what I am talking about ! Happy for you guys 👍🏼
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How much where you making per month regional?
Same thing happen to me but i was a bus driver and met my wife after everything change for a better ....
DO NOT get into this career without some major longterm goal whether that's a house, financial freedom, investing, family, or something tangible that will make all the hardtimes worth it. I've been OTR comming up on 2 years and I've been back and forth on quitting. What keeps me going is my long term goals of paying off my debt and having more control over my time money and overall freedom. Great topic
My son going to turn 5 this year my long term goal is to sell product on amazon invented my product that way I can spend more time with my kids
Basically folks have to walk into it with a plan
Only thing I can say is if your a new driver get your experience for a year or two and get the hell out !! And get a local driving job. Because you will be just living in a truck and hardy at home not growing with your family and otr.money isn't all that either.
@@TJray623 After 5 years. I left the industry. I got sick of the lifestyle. Now I’m home with family everyday. I’m in my best physical shape ever. I don’t make what I used to make as a trucker with 5 years experience in the industry. But I don’t care. It’s not worth it.
OTR is not for everyone. And I haven't been home in months but I don't really have a reason to be home. And 9 to 5 jobs just didn't cut it for me. I make more money in 1 to 2 days then I made in a week or even 2 weeks with my old jobs. I really love to drive and see the country. I also meet my lots of cool people and my girlfriend out on the road. I love otr I don't want to do anything else
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I used to be OTR as well starting driving for Maverick. I loved being OTR mainly because I'm a loner. It was so peaceful but it's definitely not for everybody. Took a toll on my marriage being gone 2-3 weeks at a time so I gave it up now I'm with the Teamsters Local 519 Union and home everyday. I actually make more money now. If I was single though I definitely would've stayed OTR only job I ever actually enjoyed. Stay safe out there!
@@shirrellnorton6533 I’m with you. I’m home every day…and crave the road pretty much every day…But my wife hates me being gone at night and threatens divorce. It’s a struggle for sure.
@@dominickjustave3558 What is that supposed to mean, exactly?
howd you meet a gf on the road? How did that come about? Just curious when that would be possible with time and all that. pretty cool
OTR is a waste of life if you have a wife and kids at home, but that's just my opinion
I have a wife and 3 boys been otr for almost 8years now. Im home every weekend now but i want out. Im 30, missing my kids growing up. But what else am i going to do? We live in northern Michigan not many other decent paying jobs.
@@ktanner11 I'm in Holland michigan, 1 Option is you can get your own truck and dot numbers get you a customer and set your own schedule .
@@ktanner11 Hey what part of Michigan are you in their Is a company call Melkan express llc and they have a dedicated runs I use to run one from Holland to Kansas home ever other day gross 1500 a week take home 1200
@@truckerran1974 i work for Tulgestka Transport, im in millersburg MI 45 min south of the bridge.
It’s a waste of life period, but I’m glad the suckers who do it keep doing it. Better them than me.
Sitting on your butt not working being broke is a waste of life! I respect anyone that is working getting their bag, supporting their family n racing goals whether it’s as a cashier, soldier, warehouse worker trucker or entrepreneur.. great video !
I agree! Thanks for watching!
Amen! I don’t care if they’re shoveling horse crap.. it’s a job.
Big fucking facts cc
Lol I’ll be broke wen my peace an sanity then be living to paid off old greedy Uncle Sam bills
Facts!
Hanging out with friends at a bar is not important.
This is something my brother who did OTR told me.
He regretted doing OTR, he missed his kids growing up, he missed family events and his wife grew apart.
He regrets being away for a few extra hundred dollars a week. He doesn't know his kids, and is divorced.
He advised me not to do it and do a local driving job.
I stayed local, I make over 1k a week and come to my wife every night.
OTR might be good money but time with family is priceless.
You can comment what you want, it won't change my opinion.
I’m OTR right now and my son tells me all the time how much he misses me. I just started back driving in October of last year, I’m on indeed looking for local jobs right now just so I can be with my son more.
Im thinking of going into business for myself $800 a wk is cool (as a subcontractor) but 1k sounds alot better..got any tips for a guy looking to branch out on his own
I feel the same as your brother. This happened to many of us
Bj Morris Look up these guys. If you’re looking for how to properly set yourself up as an owner operator, then you need to listen to this podcast
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Hey man whatever is good and works for u. No hate here. We're all sacrificing something
Truth is it's pretty much "working" 24/7. B/c when your not home, but instead "living" in/at your work (truck)- and not being paid for more or less half the time- I completely agree that it is what you describe as a "waste of life."
That's because you've been brainwashed and conditioned to accept a limited employee mindset.
As if there is no other way to make money except by trading time in exchange.
no one should have to work so much that you require to sacrifice actually having a life.
For many the trucking IS the life. Nothing wrong with that.
Depends what you personally determine as having a life.
I agree. It's a sad world. I work so much I haven't had a girlfriend in 10 years. I am trying to date again eventually but it's hard when I don't have any time. I hope I can find a girl again. I really miss having a girl to be with.
Sounds like you were depressed long before the tucking bro, go home to your family bro. You have a new born
Awesome points. Generational wealth. Worked same job for 22 years . 50 years old and starting CDL school this week. I have the drive to make money and I believe that this will take me to the next level. Nice video. Very informative and motivating for people with drive.
That’s awesome man good luck to you! Thanks for watching!
No money in trucking bro....best you will do would be 75,000 - 80,000 and that's after you get your stripes ( 3 plus years experience ). Its possible to get to 100k working for a private carrier, but still that's no money.
@@Gamble_On Lol ok buddy.
@@Gamble_On what do you do? And if 80k is not money, wtf is it?
@@Gamble_On if you're 3 years in and making under 90k a year, you're doing it wrong.
Everyday you just so happen to wake up, and actually have breathing lungs, is a blessing of each amd every single day or minute or even every second... thank the good LORD man! Nothing in life is ever wasted, when you alive bro! Forreal! Believe that all day, everyday! Bro seriously! Much love tho fam! Be safe and hold it down man ! Take care! ! !
Amen🙏🏾
Gold words
Yes, life is a gift. After almost dying yesterday, I'd rather be traveling right now than be behind the same walls every day. It all depends on the lifestyle you want. It's not for everyone.
I Love living in my families life, it's an amazing experience that I wouldn't trade for anything.
Dude, you have a point, but let's face the harsh reality: other jobs don't pay as well as trucking. I'm an engineer, and I had to become a trucker, so that's enough to say as an example.
What? No way
@@time2chill121 sounds like you need a different company, i haven't even started truckinga nd wouldn't take less than 1300 a week pulling 60-70
Heck yes, this is what makes OTR worth it. Having a plan, investing and biding time to see your life BLOOM into something you wouldnt have thought possible. Live like no one else to live like no one else
I watched the world go by through a windshield for over 35 years. The driving part was always fun. The rest of it is a pain in the ass.
I'm single, no children, & no desire to get married or have children and I still say it's a waste of life! You only get so many good years to be around the people you WANT TO BE AROUND but instead you are living in a box, eating undesirable food, & dealing with people you would never associate with if you could get avoid them. Hygiene, bathrooms, healthy living, spending time with those you care about, etc... goes out the window. You wake up one day & all you have done is get money. If you can accept that go ahead & drive.
I’ve been stripping for 23 years. I started driving OTR last year. I fuckin love it. The years on the road dancing taught me how to thrive. Obviously wknds mean nothing to me plus I’m untraditional with respects to holidays. This life suits me so well. It really depends on your lifestyle. I practice polyamory as well so being away doesn’t prevent me from experiencing romantic relationships. I’ve mastered sleeping with silicone ear plugs a black out eye mask n binaural beats. Great video for people considering trucking👏
How do you stay awake driving down long stretches of road?
It's a wasted life if you live through the ego and believe your life is outside of you instead of inside of you.
Hello Jeffrey I'm Jeffrey
Thats right. The kingdom of heaven is at hand, within
Well said
ayoo facts
You've got the right mindset for sure. I'm obviously not privy to your background but from the way that you talk about the poverty mindset tells me that you've had some struggle in your life that was out of your hands. You have the right attitude for sure. My dad worked 16 hour days, seven days a week, for three months at a time. Ninety mile commute one way to the nuclear plant that he worked at. It brought him from extreme poverty as a child and teen to being independently wealthy. He weathered two divorces, four kids, and untold hours of shaking his head and wondering what the hell he was doing. He pushed forward and that mindset stuck with me.
The way that you're thinking of being OTR is that it's a paid internship into the shipping industry and that's a damn stellar thing to do. Ten years from now you're going to enjoy the fruits of everything that you're doing today.
3 years on the road 4 weeks on 4 days off. It's easy to get burned out. I went from making 20k to 90k/yr in that short time, and it served its purpose for me. I'm going to learn how to do something else, but keep my CDL as a back up
What else are you going to learn to do? I read your comment and want to do exactly the same. Keep cdl hp, but do something different
Be single, own nothing, eat cheap, bank the bucks...no alimony no losing the house to the ex wife, no child support...go otr
What your describing is the same as regional dedicated trucking. Your on 5 days off for two or 6 days off for one. Unfortunately, no amount of money is worth sacrificing family time or your life. Most drivers aren’t paid enough money to be miserable, lonely or sacrifice their efforts. You can’t put a price tag on your happiness. Getting paid low wages in your first year, it’s hard to build wealth, but easy to build debt. I appreciate your video and your perspective. Congratulations on becoming a dad, good luck to you!
True.
I’m in trucking school right now and you’re a breath of fresh air to listen to after all the negative Nacys out there making trucking videos. Thanks
I've made an extremely good living as an otr driver. But, I'm an owner operator too. I've been in this industry over 30 year's. I usually work a month, then take a month off. Go on a lot of vacations. Ride motorcycles a lot. I have a retirement plan that I pay into every year, thankfully I don't need it yet. But, if you can see the big picture, and where you want to go with your life, this isn't that bad.
After 36 years of living behind the wheel I feel the same way.
Friends and family are at home for Christmas, Thanks Giving, birthdays, anniversary's, weddings. I missed so much of my daughters growing up for the simple fact I was trucking. While you are packing up your truck and heading out on a 3500 mile rounder. The sacrifices you make to be a driver are not worth the return.
I don't do 3500 Miles a week anymore ....
Agreed. If u have a family and want to go big rigging u just may pay dearly. I found out don't do it
Everyone has a different situation. I became an owner operator so I could be home more. I leased on to a tanker company hauling gas. Home on weekends and every night. Made a good living. Then the kids grew up, wife and I decided to divorce, so I went otr. Still see my kids, and grandbabies now. Sometimes it's about quality time, not quantity time.
@@grumpy4577 why did you guys divorce?
I go to baseball, hockey and football games while on the road grab a uber or walk if youre close enough and plan the trip you can make good money while still doing things. Why sit in a truck stop alone in Atlanta when you can catch a Braves games or see the Falcons
Very true
This is one reason I want to become an OTR driver. I want to see this great country and all it has to offer.
Thats easier said then done...especially when your a company driver and there on you about getting back on the road and/or making that pick up/delivery.....I have worked for 2 companies running otr.....that wanted you running the second your break was over.......and I got one day off for every 2 weeks on the road......its an good career but sometimes it fuckin sucks
@@mindlessamusement7095 I found a position that has you out 3 weeks and home 7 days, with 2 days of travel. Looks like I'll be doing pretty well. Thanks.
Otr is best as a single person with high financial goals or who plans to own trucking equipment. It also good for saving money in general. And let's be honest the job that you will have at home now a days will have you working 5-6 days a week with 50+hours anyway... so what are you really holding on 2? ( the weekend) --- (also otr you can do a 34 in dam near any city if you pick the right company which is basically the equivalent to a weekend) also if you make it through 2 yrs otr your set for life going home and going local.
Six months in, most lol companies pay well and they will pick this young strapper up.
OTR. Truck driving is sweat shop on wheels..😳😳
Basically.
Absolutely,
Truck drivers these days to make any of the 80 90 100 thousand a year because of the shortage of truck drivers you can work out for a few years puts a lot of money away and then decide where to go from there
Every job is a waste of a life.
For the past 6 year's I've been otr yeah it sucks but my bills are getting paid got a new car my wife understands my line of work my kids are getting taken care of that all that matters in life not friends or concerts don't get me wrong I like going to concerts but bills and my home comes first
There's plenty of local work paying more than OTR. Almost any LTL company is an example. Home everyday, hourly for the P&D drivers and usually mileage or paid by the run for the Linehaul drivers.
Try to see about a regional position. Kinda between local and otr. Still make decent/good money.
Me 2 , I run out florida to Texas and back 3 days flat or less, 4 days off. So I only work 12 days a month, have money and time for my family.
@@cd4917 sounds like an amazing run ! I live In Florida love the I 10 what company do you drive for if you don't mind me asking
@@cd4917is this considered Regional?
Try local. I run local for a produce wholesaler bring home about 75k my first year. Get to see my wife and kids every night. And I make good money
that's why I like OTR in a sprinter van. I don't have to stay at truck stops and rest stops. I can pretty much park anywhere. I have to drive more than a trucker but I still pull in 2500 a week after gas.
Nice
Do you work for a company? If so which one? Does it have competitors?
Subtract the rest and quit lying to people. Tell them how many hours, miles, ect. Sick of you bullcrap expediters charging low prices then lying about how much you make.
@@geneparmesan7699 I have to drive 80 hrs a week to make that. I am a driver so that is all I subtract. All I said was I enjoy not having to live at rest stops and truck stops. Lol get mad much? I actually explain exactly how hard I work how many hrs etc on my channel. But okay mr. Judge of others. Sheesh lol
@@UtubemeNohomo I drive for a owner of a van. He just bought his second and it’s my 7th month doing it. Lots of competition and it’s a game of averages. I run 3-5k miles a week to make that money but the money is there and the lifestyle to me is a lot easier (less restrictions, headaches, etc) than a truck driver
I’m doing OTR to get experience. Walmart and frito lay pays truck drivers good once they have years of experience. too me driving is awesome I get fresh air and I’ve been in trucking all my life since my father was a trucker I don’t get bored at all with trucking.
Walmart is hard to get on. I used to do contract work for them making good money then they gave it all to swift 🤣
@@Az56818 That won't last long. OTR companies are killing the truckdriving brand for new drivers. Many new drivers quit because of the low pay and the way they're treated, never returning to the industry. It will continue to get worse. Generation Y is smaller than the millennials population-wise and they detest the industry. The industry unfortunately is getting a very bad rap because living wages aren't being paid from the beginning. It's a very profitable job long-term, but most drivers discouraged by low pay don't stick around that long.
Good paying jobs feel like a waste of life because there's so many of them that require so much time out of you. Missing important events and milestones, especially with your kids, absolutely sucks. You can't ever get that back. But at the same time, if you wanna live comfortably the USA, and you want your family living comfortably, you gotta have a decent income.
OTR is great if you need healing and getting to know yourself.Two years OTR is perfect ,after go local or regional.Doing it 6 months a year OTR and 6 months off is another way of doing it.
OTR is best if you drive 2 weeks in a month and other 2 weeks you stay at home completely (if you are owner operator and truck is paid off and you making 8,000 - 12000 a week) or do some other part time job for rest of the 2 weeks so you can spend time with family.
Facts
That's what my buddy does. He made his money while he was younger as an O/O and now takes every other two weeks off. Sometimes he takes an entire month off.
That's what I do, I work 2 weeks otr then I'm home 2weeks. I also go city to city seeing family friends so most times it really doesn't seem like work. 1 week I may be in Dallas at a cowboys game the next week I'm visiting family in Denver and I go to a Nuggets game, leave Denver stop on Indy visit family go to Colts game leave Indy headed south to my Georgia home for 2/3weeks. Then load myself back west home to Phoenix. It's literally what u make off it...
@@evanburnett2887 That's what I've been thinking O/O is a huge responsibility but if you're doing the right things to make the right kind of money you can afford to do what you do. Traveling making money and still having fun.
@@evanburnett2887do you own your truck?
Very well said my brother...I drive OTR and I love it and enjoy it . I'm single and my Son and Daughter are grown and doing very for themselves so me being gone 2-3 weeks at a time isn't too hard on us not seeing each other everyday. OTR isn't something you want to do if you don't have a man or woman at home that's willing to only see you 2-4 days a month.
In trucking you have to balance work/life. You can't let companies dictate your life. Otherwise they'll run you into a mental disorder. You have to just take the time off. Don't worry what they think. They're about greed. You gotta be about you. 1 day for every week out is not enough
Trucking is definitely a waste of life. Anxiety and stress catches up with you. The risk and level of stress absolutely not worth the pay. Not to mention all the other inhumane aspects. Yeah, call me lazy or call me a complainer, but in trucking, beng a workaholic and over doing it causes accidents, death, and losing your mind. We weren't made to be driving every day all day and messing up our sleep schedule. It's supposed to be driver focused but it's most definitely company and customer focused.
How about having to deal with drivers that are on their phone all the time distracted drivers are a problem my brother drove a truck for over 40 years he said it's a problem
Was 23 driving 5yrs total when I figured this out. Rather have 2 or 3 jobs in one place and SLEEP IN MY OWN BED AND ENJOY MY OWN HOUSE 🏠 .
I turned 25 last week. Been driving for 2.5 years. Just bought a truck. It can be done. Now I make the decisions.
It's not a job. It's a lifestyle.
OTR truck driving is a huge rip off I discourage anyone from considering it
Go to a trade school and learn a job that at least qualifies for time and a half pay after 40 hours
@@lonewolftrucker3955 That's because you are clueless!!! Laughable.
@@lonewolftrucker3955 I'm a joker but unlike you not a moron!! I've made over $100,000.00 every year for the past 10 years as a company driver. See ya.
@@lonewolftrucker3955 I made 10800 last year all my meals are paid I stay in holiday inns 4 nights a week and I'm off weekend's u just hafta find the wright job their out their
@@penntuckeybackwoods8201B.S.
I think OTR is for the single person, perhaps just starting out with no family trying to get experience. But there are plenty of married folks out there that have made it work, and have done very well for themselves.
OTR is not a wast of life but a way of life its not for a lot of people
Be honest if it's a waste of you life you should just quit and do something else to gain life experiences
Any Mid-level income blue collar job gets overtime for their time spent working over 40hrs. If you compare any blue collar trade job carpenter , plumber , painter , iron worker , police officer and have them work 70 hrs a week , that would be 30hrs multiplied by average $40 hr overtime , all of those jobs would be $1200 in overtime alone plus the $1000 for their 1st 40 hours . The average company driver is earning $1200 for 70 hrs of work in week , some more some less trucking is a very underpaid industry
Not really I make percentage so I make 25 percent gross been doing it for 2 years and making 2500 to 3000 a week it would take double the time for another trade to make that money
@@mr.nuticus7821 save your bullshit , I've been driving trucks for 14 years , if your getting 25 % of gross earnings you are getting not even close to $2500 a week as a company driver , as a company driver At 25 % of gross you'd be topping off at $1500 to $1600 25% is a low percentage guy , your a bullshitter
@@mr.nuticus7821 you might make $2500 or $3000 for 2 weeks.
@@seanburdelik5216 nope every week a truck gross is 13 to 15k a week trucking is profitable when you get a percentage before fuel
@@mr.nuticus7821 there is no way one driver is making 13to 15k a week to a truck impossible , if your doing drop n hooks your company is only getting $2.50 a mile haul preloaded freight , and if your doing live load unload there is not enough hours is the day to gross that much to a truck with one driver in it , I know companies who let their drivers drive illegally and their only grossing $8000 to $9000 your a bullshitter I know the trucking game inside and out , you can't even gross that money with paper logs , stop bullshittin there's no need to try to impress people on TH-cam it takes drivers 4 and 5 hrs to get loaded or unloaded youzzzz a bullshitter
It's a Lifestyle and isn't for everyone. I was in your shoes 25 years ago. I asked that question. I got off the road because I wanted more. I went local and even Line haul where I got off every weekend. I would make it home every other days as well. It still wasn't enough so I went into Law Enforcement. Yes, I am home daily but the amount of time is still like when I was trucking.
Back when I did OTR, we didn't have FaceTime. We had phone cards and pay phones and it cost a lot of money to make that 10 minute phone call too.
Now days, yeah, it might be easier on that note but you are still gone and TV, Internet, yeah, we didn't have that either.
Good Luck and get home to see your wife & kids as often as possible.
What is your short & long plan ?
I'm 49 years old I can tell you I use to party on the weekends for a long time trust me young guy keep doing what your doing. Your on the right path im trying to get my CDL now trucking looks fun I have no family left this would be perfect for me now.
Please Don’t go OTR. Hazmat Tanker. Trust me it’s worth it. Home daily if I want to go home, and off every weekend. Work 4 days a week sometimes 5 if I want to make more $. $2000-$2500 a week (before taxes) as a company driver. Great benefits, vacation, PTO, 401K w/ match… etc. get your 2 years experience and then go hazmat tanker.
Been driving for over 30 yrs. Trucking for me has never been a waste of my life. Been otr all of it. I love driving. Made a great living while doing it. Stay safe.
Steve ===like the saying goes if you love what you do it's not a job
It's amazing how many family photos you are not in because your on the road.
I just started and I'm ready to get out of it already lol this is good for single people. If you try to juggle a family with this it ain't gonna work.
Compared to a normal 9 to 5 job, OTR trucking is slavery.
Anytime you trade your time for money doing something you wouldn't do for free...it's a waste of life.
You can get a Ph.D. worth of audiobooks in each year man. You can pinch pennies, invest in land, save up for your own truck, do online school just for fun and personal growth. It's a waste if you waste it.
My advice to single men, stay single. Why sacrifice your life just to make a better life for others, that you aren’t going to see very often. Doesn’t make any sense to me.
I'm otr but 70 hrs a week for $700 a week that's 10 an hr...... maybe 15 including taxes and crap... not worth giving up your life. I need to find a better paying job
I’m an OTR driver and most days are good and uneventful. Certain weather conditions can be challenging and stressful like winter weather and wind. Roads can be a nail biter sometimes. The time away from family can be depressing and really affect your attitude. Eating on the road is hard to maintain healthy diet. It’s a pain dragging your stuff to and from truck stop showers, Doing laundry, etc. Yeah it has its challenges but I’m always working and making a decent living.
We’re all grown now. Hanging with friends every weekend is overrated. You have a family to take care. Real friends will be there. This is very objective
Hello, I feel what you are saying. I drove OTR for around 10 years and after I got children I started to think about ways to stay at home with them. I knew trucking so I started my own company and now I have had my own trucks for almost 8 years. Good look to you.
Sir a a fellow truck driver, everything you said is on point!! Very well said too. You want to know what a dead end job is? Retail. Specifically working at home depot. Did that for 13 years, left there no savings. Got into trucking I'm not mega bucks but I can afford things that I couldn't before. Inherited a home with a $30k mortgage, paid it off in 18 months. That was not easy, many 4000+ miles per week. I been OTR the majority of my career, right now been doing local for almost 2 years....it sucks. Not a lot of money in it for me. My company just offered me a otr lane, Michigan to texas $ 2k per week plus a brand new truck. I have to try this. Never made that much in a week. Just not too excited about going back out. What you said about losing contact with friends is true. I have 1 very good friend I hardly see her now due to our lifestyles, just afraid of losing her totally. Were just friends but she is important to me. I'm also worried about diet. I gained a ton of weight otr. Man is it hard to lose. Getting a fridge and microwave before I go out.
To the newbies just a few suggestions: do not buy a truck at least for a couple of years. Get to know your profession try to learn as much as you can. Stay away from leases that is a dead end. Try to pay off as much debit as you can and if you did try to live simple build your savings. Thanks again sir for posting this, very good info for people wondering what trucking is like. ( I love it)
I am also a OTR driver and I live in Grand Rapids and I do the Michigan to Texas route about 5 times a month. It’s a very easy route in both directions and you should absolutely give it a shot, that is some good weekly pay and you won’t see that doing regional. Do your meal prep at home before you hit the road, your truck will have a fridge and buy a small 700W microwave, and stay away from the truckstop food and fast food. I take my crockpot and hot plate with me everywhere and cook in the truck, especially on my resets…that makes a huge difference on keeping the weight down and the bank account up. I hope you give it another shot, good luck 👍🏻
I pay no rent is an OTR driver and for the first time in my life I make over 2,000 bucks a week with only one year experience that computer programmer money dog. I'm wasting my life so much that I'm going to retire a millionaire😂
Do you mind telling me what company you work for? I'm 39 and going to get my CDL soon I've been working in Steel plants and shit forever and I'm tired of it lol. I'm just trying to soak up as much knowledge as possible before going in.
@@bigdog5880 small outfit out of Nampa Idaho called cool Mountain. I rode a little soon because I'm not really making 2000 a week now more like averaging 1750 a week sometimes as low as 1500 still I'm pretty happy all things considered
These truck drivers are delusional, must be lack of sleep. If you do a serious break down on hours and miles to make "2,000" a week is getting paid minimum wage. Please truck drivers stop glamorizing trucking!
@heatherjones3773 I went from being homeless to now I'm almost about to hit a 100k in the stock market in two years.Tell me another job I can do that? No rent.
@@aaronburns9538 yes because you aren't not paying rent . Instead in a what? 8x8 truck no shower , no sink
Absolutely, otr is for the bird's! Get your own rig and be your own Boss
That's is also for the birds.
I think what you're describing goes for any career. You have to sacrifice some of your "personal" life to work towards the larger goal. You cannot party every weekend, eat out all the time and not be on a budget if you want to achieve your financial goals. At the end of the day it's all about balance
I couldn’t agree more with you, I’m on the same boat, working really hard now so I can make an impact on my family’s life, already making the dream happen of becoming owner op, already got the truck, waiting 2 months to have my 2 years CDL so I can get a decent insurance, I’ll work even harder in my truck so I can keep going to the next level, best of luck to you brother, that’s the right mindset !!
That’s awesome man! Thanks for watching!
Completely depends on how you approach trucking if you're under a company they control when you go and where you go. If you're independent it's a completely different lifestyle. I never saw trucking as a career to retire from. Have to go in with a exit plan. But anything worth having will always come with a sacrifice.
This new breed of drivers are whiners and crybabies whaah i can't get home to my momma whaaah my gps can't get ad signal I'm lost
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OTR isnt just a "job". Few are meant for it most are not. You have to love it.
I agree 38 years I love it
@@penntuckeybackwoods8201 im only a little over 3 years now and love it too. I took a about a year break to give the 9-5 thing a try and the whole time i wanted back in a truck. 2nd week back on the road and i couldnt be happier.
Trucking isn't for everyone, that's for sure. In year's past, we had a trucking family out on the road, you ran in to people you knew at every truck stop, other driver's, waitresses, etc, and you knew a lot of the shipper's & receiver's. Now day's driver's don't even speak to each other.
That's why it called driving your life away.i did 20 years otr and 15 years local.pretty much.
When I’m down, I think of others who have it worse than me.
Truck driving is very stressfull ,and there is no way to work off the stress.To do it you have to live at work.The average trucker dies at 61 years of age.The money is just not worth the cost,in terms of health and well being.
A 24 hour job deserves 24 hour pay.
After 5 years of call center job, i had it. I'm almost 30 and i feel like i havent done much at all
I left the corporate world for trucking. Never been happier.
After 43 years of wasting my life seeing the country through a windshield the worst thing of it all being in the truck so long by myself I can't be around people very long now happy to say I'm glad to be away from all of the headache
You know what is hilarious is that I spend so much time inside my home that being a driver would actually be a substantial increase in the amount of people I see. 43 years where did all that money go?
To each their own I’m an OTR driver for 15 years now over 2million safe miles and still going strong and loving it
Thats the new generation B.S. you can make a great living in trucking ! Definitely not OTR but you can do great things being local home everyday
As a former manufacturing welder who actually did waste most of their life working a dead end line of work, I disagree that trucking is a waste of yours or anyones life. Currently, I am in CDL school now and from my point of view as someone who worked in a field where the top end pay was maybe 25 a hour if your are lucky, driving trucks is a far better “waste of time” if you want to call it that!! Over the road is simply not the only route to take in order to make a very good living with in the world of having a CDL.. As tons of people are and will say on here, OTR is a Lifestyle and that is 100% true!!! If you don’t like being out on the road simply get a trucking job that is local or regional. There plenty of those jobs that can net you a good living and have you home nightly wit weekends off or regional ones that have you overnighting once a week, but home way more frequently vs out right OTR driving.
I agree with you 💯 I’ve been driving for 20 years and all of it OTR and I fight with it all the time because I feel like I’ve given my life to this job
facts! I got off that road first chance I got. Sucks to drive otr man
I'm a gynecologist and I feel like I am wasting my life
Trucking change my life and enabled me to live out my goals plus more. This is definitely not for everyone.
It's a tough life as a trucker. I have been there.
💯💯💯 get in and get out, that’s how I see trucking. Have a plan, before you get in. Invest that money that you make, instead of believing that trucking is the only route. Good video homie
Anyone that does OTR knows that its a waste of life if you got wife and kids, other than than that your stacking up saving $$
Truck driver out of the road is a job just for no more than 5 years ,,my opinion as a truck driver
Coming from a ex otr get in to the operators union I went from making under 100k a year to making 100-130k a year and I'm home everyday with my wife and kids. Time is more important then money
Operators union? As I’m running heavy equipment? I want to do that bad. Actually been thinking about going to mobile crane school.
Stop chasing miles, hit up bowerman trucking out of Arkansas . 1 year experience, 1500$ a week salary, home every week. Currently employed with them, went from 43cents per mile at Schneider to 73k a year. Tell them Alan sent you
This is why I said OTR drivers should get paid the minimum 100 to 125 grand...
Lol, this industry is ran by top tier criminals. Bunch of fucking idiots that bully people that aren't as stupid as they are.
i really feel like this really only applies to company drivers...i mean being a owner operator allows you to really control your schedule unlike working for a company, they'd want you in that damn truck 365 days if they could...and you become easily replaceable but to each their own.
True, corporations try to skim as much as that can off driver's pay and livelihood. I'm amazed at the amount of greed in this industry. They make billions in profits and still want you to buy your equipment like kingpin pullers, tire thumpers, windshield scrapers, gloves, even oil funnels. Whenever I worked in another industry, my tools were already there. It's like asking an office worker to buy their own monitor, keyboard and mouse.
that is why I ran away right after going thru their 6 weeks of training. lol
Thinking of doing the same right now
If your a family person and a social person, then get a local job, it's that simple.
I have been at it 30 years and I designed my life around my job
Talk about a waste of life. Do drywall for 30 years. I still have a class a considering going back but I know the money won't be as good at first. For those thinking about it trucking is this traveling seeing things feels like you're camping out, meeting a lot of new people. Just doing you if you're a loner. I loved it but I had kids. They all grown and gone now. Kind of missing it. Trucking could be a lot more fun if
dot would lighten up some it could be a lot more fun.
I’ve worked in factories where you have to work 30 to 40 hours of overtime . Plus you’re working at pretty low pay.
I felt like I was wasting my life when I was truck driving. But I think if you’re an owner operator you have a lot more freedom to work and live your life how you want .
All the things you've been saying I feel the same way ,keep trucking 💛
One thing that stood out about what you said, your'e sacrificing now for the future. Many don't understand that concept. I tell my young adult kids now that you need to bust your ass while you're young so you can enjoy the future. Honestly, fuq the friends, the hanging out, the partying and all of that social bullshit. Work. Get used to doing beneficial things that are hard because they eventually become easy with repetition. And when you're in your 40s and 50s you'll see how far you've made it compared to your friends who thought the social scene was that important. I'm 50, retired and living in a foreign country without a care in the world right now. Sure, I sacrificed a lot to get to where I am but the friends I do have wish they were me.