Btw. 80K? More than I make, and I’m an attorney.
While it is possible to nominally make $80k a year driving, a big chunk of that gets eaten up by expenses and taxes, so 80k minus taxes puts it down to around 55k, then expenses chop a bunch more off that. The net I think ends up being something just over 40k a year, for the privilege of only seeing your family once every 2 weeks for a couple of days. And that’s driving for one of the really big companies; the Owner-operator route pays a higher gross, but you pay your own fuel which really eats into your profit.
All those oil related jobs pay good in North Dakota.
I have friends making $100,000k working in fracking here in SW PA. Long hours, hard work but it's there.
why don’t you go drive a truck in idaho? I make about that as well and I am seriously questioning why I work so many hours for that same money while others get more wealthy...
Then you're obviously either spending too much time on FR or working part time........
Don't take offense to my comment Darren, I abhore attorneys regardless what side of the fence they are on............
The legal profession is the most profitable, artifically created industry in America whose sole purpose is to either take from those who have or represent those who are fighting to keep what they have.......
Either way, the attorney always ends up the financial winner.....Nice Gig!