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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by alasdair_ on Saturday March 26, 2022 @02:21PM (#30814039)
The problem is that it isn’t really $20/hr. That’s the claimed rate but they don’t pay you for the many hours a day spent waiting or unloading or doing anything other than moving.
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Re:I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are... by olyjohn on Saturday March 26, 2022 @02:29PM (#30814095)
Right and you're not at home every night sleeping in your own bed. So you're effectively working 24 hour shifts. Your hobbies are limited, you can't really exercise, your diet is shit, you have to shower at a truck stop... You can't really even take your truck and go exploring the area you're in. No place to take a shit, pissing in bottles.
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