> Why wouldn’t it be highly paid?
There's many jobs that are probably even worse and paid less. The only reason it's highly paid is because the competition for it is higher: "at the time it was because of a “shortage” of truck drivers."
There's many jobs that are probably even worse and paid less. The only reason it's highly paid is because the competition for it is higher: "at the time it was because of a “shortage” of truck drivers."
To pass the training you need to be a competent driver. It isn't as easy as you make it out to be and the pool of people who can become truck drivers is smaller than you think it is.
Loads of drivers fret parallel parking. Imagine the difficulty of moving a 54' trailer perfectly straight into a bay at the bottom of a narrow ramp and not crushing anything in comparison to regular parallel parking.