63-Year-Old Iowa Truck Driver Killed After Tractor-Trailer Catches Fire in I-64 Bridge Crash in West Virginia; Dog Pulled Alive From Cab as Truck and Car Dangle Off Bridge; Dog Returned to Family

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I’m 30 pretty much gotten nowhere in life. Feel like trucking may be my last resort for a career. Right now I’m a line cook making 28k per year but looking to make more as this isn’t sustainable long term.

I was thinking of trucking but came to the realization even if you make 30k for example you still have to pay for showers so say 15x365=5,475 so now you’re at $24,525. Then you also have to pay for parking as I assume the company doesn’t reimburse you so what that’s another 4-5k per year? So now you’re at 20k, I’m sorta feeling defeated after learning about the showers and parking not being paid.

Plus I also assume you need to buy your own tools and equipment etc so I don’t know. Trucking seems good to me on paper since I’m extremely introverted and don’t mind my own company but the pay for new drivers doesn’t seem ok.

I want to do OTR starting off I want to do tanker or hazmat but since I’m new I don’t think I can do that off the rip so was going to try flatbed and try moving up from that, but I don’t know anymore.

Could use some advice

New Song: Driver Night (Country Trucker Anthem)

Tractor-trailer driver rescued from cab hanging off US 35 bridge

Rescue teams work to secure the cab. (Courtesy of the Teays Valley Fire Department)

Driver dies after rolling semi truck off Wolf Creek Pass

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Tractor trailer filmed falling apart in North Carolina intersection

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Truck crash cleared after closing I-40/I-24 in downtown Nashville
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Tractor-trailer dangling off bridge over I-270 spur after crash in Montgomery County

Photo: (Timothy Corley/DC News Now)

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