I ' ve only had a CDL for three years now and I could go to a midteir trucking company tomorrow and get a $ 5000 bonus for a one year commitment to work for that company , be put in a brand new company truck likely a KW T 680 , and be grossing $ 92 , 000 . That ' s just mileage pay . So as a new driver to that company I could gross $ 97 , 000 in the first year . How many hours would that come to ? About 70 hours a week . But there ' s tons of audio entertainment . Podcasts , audiobooks , NPR , etc . The pay works out to about $ 26 . 65 hr . Not bad for how easy driving a truck is . <| sep |> This BritishIranian likes to lecture Americans like foreigners often do . No one really expects this trollish creature to comprehend US culture . Instead , we watch hateful hacks like this enemy combatant to see just what sort of crap is flowing from the minds of all those disaffected masses who don ' t like US .