When I started in 80's it was the easiest thing evah. 2500 promissary note to school. Sign. Show up weekends and learn enough to pass Class A (Pre CDL) at the DMV. Done. My first trucking employer greeted me at door, showed me company driver room, put me with driver for a 20 mile drive (Road Test) and I was hired when we got back based on his say so. Records were not much, just high school diploma, Driving school location and Class A thats it. I had my first load with trainer due 300 AM start time the following morning. Done. Employed. Paid that friday.
Payroll that week came out to 540 dollars net after deductions. That was average each week working 17 hour days including driving locally. Home just long enough to sleep a little, clean up, eat and drive back before sunrise and do it again. And again and again. Three months I had made net 7000 dollars and was on track net 35 to 40K that first year if not more. It rained money that year in my life. My bank people were elbowing each other looking at my deposits and carefree happy attitude compared to my 3.35 a hour minimum wage friends trapped in ::
::jobs crying about the rent or whatever.
Thats trucking. No computers, no nothing. If the Mack stayed traction on that ice and snow? Great. Three feet deep No problem get going.
Fast foward to today. Computer crap trucks that spin drives on the dew inside a flat dock. Bosses micromanging the :::
::: out of you. Clearing house on your ass, enforcement with star war