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Thank you to share you first hand insights.

What do you think about this YouTube video that has over 4m views? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQXVgniI-hw

Basically, this guy says take it on the chin for a year or two and keep a clean record. Then you can easily change companies and earn a solid middle class salary. Do you believe it or think his wages are bit "bubbly"? Honestly, I'm not involved in the logistic industry, but his video looks "no-BS" and straight forward. If was looking for solid working class / middle class job, I would be watching this video for tips!

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That's a good video: humorous, informative, interesting.

>If was looking for solid working class / middle class job, I would be watching this video for tips!

You might want to watch more videos, move over to his youtube channel... because he quits trucking earlier this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk8AnMzhZZE

The downsides caught up to him after ~3 years. He also worked his salary out to roughly $8/hr (see video for details) considering time spent "on the job".

So, perhaps this isn't the solid advertisement for the industry you were thinking it is.

Wow, thank you so much to share this follow-up video. I watched it today. My heart goes out to him. He is trying to be emotionally naked in front of an Internet audience about serious quality of life issues for OTR truckers.

He mentioned the intensity was simply too high. It's an "all or nothing" job. Honestly, when I first posted, I wasn't aware how griding the job is. I'm glad I watched this follow-up video.

What if trucking companies offered to allow two truckers to split the schedule? Then, it is up the pair to work it out. I feel the same about people who quit their office careers early for emotional labour -- family care. Many of them could easy return to their old role in 50% capacity, and split with another person. I know it could be done, but management has no interest.

It's hard to speak to anyone's given experience.

It's not impossible that anyone could drive well for a while and land in a good place, but that's not the industry I see. I don't see people suddenly getting paid well after 30 months.

I don't have first hand experience with the Walmart example, but I've heard from others they get their pick of the most experienced drivers / don't pay poorly, but they're not the industry and the idea of just meeting their minimum to be considered and magically getting a job sounds a bit silly.

To me that's a YouTube video that implies a lot, isn't impossible, but doesn't say much about the odds of any of it being true for a given person either ...

The industry I know has demand for drivers, but the outcome of that isn't what you might think. There's "demand" where they demand folks who aren't paid well, and then there's real demand.

“The first thing I do when I wake up is reacclimate my self to the baffling reality of conscious experience”

I felt that. This video makes it seem pretty cool actually, minus the packaged foods and microwaved meals.

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