Back in the 1980s and 1990s, being a truck driver used to be a high paid job. We all knew that truck drivers were the best drivers on the road. Truck drivers who were road warriors (cross country) could make 2x to 3x the average income. In 2024, it paid 88% of average earnings. They got rid of the experienced American truck drivers and replaced them with unskilled foreigners who can't speak English and don't know the rules of the road.(Wall Street Mav)