Pays $680 a week, he's home every 2 weeks, and as a bonus he gets to unload the truck.
Not a terrible job, but not many people want to work that schedule, and a life on the road isn't probably ideal.
Literally unload? Does this mean something else? I wouldn't see this as a bonus.
This would be more likely for smaller-format discount retail like, e.g., the Dollar Store or a restaurant supply chain.
If you assume he's driving the FMCSA limit of 60 hours in 7 consecutive days, the hourly wage is lower. And if you count all the time he's away from home, it's lower still. And he's paying for truck stop food and sleeping in his cab to boot.
And a far cry from the reports of $73,000 reported in some sources [1]
[1] https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/09/news/economy/truck-driver-s...