If you want to drive a truck the best paying jobs are either heavy haul or tankers. It takes a lot of experience to do heavy haul, so, you may want to look into hazardous material, tanker work.Tanker drivers are well respected as are heavy haul drivers. I drove big rigs for years but left the industry and went into construction, but I was still young and was a good choice at the time. But I’ll tell ya, driving gets old quick, driving the same roads over and over gets to be quite boring, but, it pays well if you get in with the right outfit.
I went with him on a run one summer, and we started by picking up enough lead to be about 500lbs short of max load. That was two small pallets in the middle of the trailer. Then we went a couple of hundred miles down the road to a Dixie Cup plant and filled the rest of the trailer with Styrofoam cups. He'd get paid for almost 2 full loads in one trip.