Why Most New Truck Drivers Don’t Make $100K

Most people get into trucking for the pay. They want to make more money and then what they are making now. They don't get into it because they love trucks or it's a lifelong dream of theirs to drive a truck. Some do, but for the most part they don't. They want better income than what they're doing

now. But then they hear stories about drivers making 80,000 a year, 100,000, 120,000 but that's not the whole story. The reality of this doesn't match the expectations a lot of times. So in this video, I'm going to break down what you can expect to get paid in the trucking world. So you've started doing research

because you're thinking about getting into trucking. Then you see one website says, "Oh, they're 55,000 a year." Another one says 70,000 a year. And then you hear some YouTuber saying, "Oh, I make $100,000 a year plus." And you you're like, "Which one is right?" You don't know which one is right. They're all right, depending on

your level of experience and depending on what you're pulling and all kind of variables. The huge thing I've seen about the difference in pay levels and what they're telling you on the internet one one place versus another place is they don't take into account your experience level. They don't take into account what you're pulling. Say a a dry

van. You're pulling a dry van as a rookie driver. Brand new, you know, you just got finished with your training for your company trainer. Compare that to an experienced driver, say 5 years or more, pulling a tanker. That's total different beast. That's a totally different animal right there. That's why you can't compare it's not apples to apples it's