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and you know who takes it in the ass?
the drivers.
A good driver with a couple years experience and decent company will make roughly .30 cents per mile. He's limited by the DOT as to how many hours he can legally log/drive, so it comes out to basically somewhere between $22k and $32k a year depending on how hard he runs.
That's a shitload of responsibility to only make an average of about $27k a year gross.
And if you have a wreck, or get a speeding ticket or two... these things damage you. 2 or 3 speeding tickets and you're no longer a driver. Even one preventable accident (there are no unpreventable accidents.... only preventable or acts of god when you're a pro driver).... you can pretty much kiss your career goodbye because no one will be able to insure you.
There is no separate license for pro drivers. If you lose your license for trucking, you lost your license to drive your car as well.
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