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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by silisili on Saturday March 26, 2022 @01:38PM (#30813714)
Not discounting the author's experience, but it doesn't mirror my own. It's probably highly, highly dependent upon the company you work for. My father drove OTR for a certain brown courier service, and made about 150k a year. This was about 15 years ago. You did have to be gone for a whole week at a time, so certainly not easy or for everyone, but the pay was quite nice.
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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by massysett on Saturday March 26, 2022 @04:42PM (#30815174)
UPS is union. Teamsters. The author is non-union.
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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by selectodude on Saturday March 26, 2022 @01:43PM (#30813757)
OTR pays way, way more. I'd be all over it in my younger days. Once you have a family, as you said, it can be a bit more difficult.

To the author, if you're reading, OTR drivers are in very, very high demand. Get that bread.

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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by alasdair_ on Saturday March 26, 2022 @02:19PM (#30814030)
> To the author, if you're reading, OTR drivers are in very, very high demand. Get that bread.

The article talks about the authors experience with OTR and why it has a 90% attrition rate yearly compared to 12% for local. They already got that bread. The bread was moldy.

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