I have worked for local LTL companies for the last 25 years and can say that you are better staying with computers. You can make decent money, but at the expense of your home life. The trucking companies do not care if you daughter or son has a school function; they need you to deliver freight. If you look at most local Pickup and Delivery drivers you don't see many old ones because the work breaks down your back and knees.
Most local trucking jobs start out at $15-$17 an hour and they top out around $20-$25 an hour. UPS pays the most, but you have to work part time there for a couple of years to get a full time position. You do get OT if you work over 40 locally, but a lot of local companies are getting around the OT law by working you hourly for 8 hours and then sending you on a line run later in the shift which pays mileage.
I got out of the LTL business and work as a driver at a nuclear facility and hope I can retire here as I have never been happier.
Robert Rife
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67 Firebird 467 cubic inches 7.71 @ 92 in the 1/8 and 11.69 @ 115 in the 1/4.
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