Just sayin', in case some enterprising young reader is looking for a direction to try.
I think you either love it or hate it. I worked for a while where I was talking to drivers all the time and I think you have to be a certain type who enjoys driving because you drive more in a month than the average person does in a year. I had one cousin who died very young, just past forty, with brain cancer and his casket was carried on the back of a road tractor in the funeral procession. He had absolutely loved the job, wouldn’t have done anything else once he tried it. As for myself I don’t think there is any way I could ever have been a long haul driver, I get groggy after two or three days of driving all day long. I drove a switch tractor for a while just backing the trailers into the dock and pulling them back out, so I can say I have pulled loads but I never got off the company property. I averaged about one hundred yards between hook and drop.
My son tried it last year. He was bringing in about $200/week working full time going cross country. Said people treated drivers like dog poop, and there was no way he would continue working as a truck driver.