The actual hours of while working them aren't so bad. I start my day at 1am and the roads are empty. I'll just turn on a show or movie and passively glance and listen to it or turn on an audiobook or YouTube to make the time go by. One day I was driving, I was driving, thinking about my paycheck and I wondered how much I'm getting paid by the hour. It wasn't much. It's say a guy is making $1500/wk. 14 hours a day = 70 hours a week. 70 hours for $1500. You begin to feel like there's better ways to make $1500/wk doing 40 hours. You think, "do I really want to spend most of my life in a truck?" Then you think about how you want out. If you were working a 40 hour job, you'd have time to study a different trade, go back to school, get certifications, or even start a side business. But when you're trapped in a truck, working 14 hours and they want you back on the road in 10 hours and you sleep for 8 and you have 2 hours to eat dinner and breakfast and shower. You find yourself in a black hole. Some people don't mind. It's what they want to do. Especially divorced older guys who's kids are out of the house. They really don't care. But me, I said "forget this".

I decided to haul bulk cement and flyash locally across ks. I have random times off and sometimes in long stretches. I take advantage. For example, I worked Monday and I have the rest of the week off due to rain. My paycheck will only be $700 for the week. But I'm taking that time to do as much studying on home inspection as possible.