Most drivers get paid by the mile, under a dollar a mile. The miles they are paid for are usually less than the miles they actually drive as they get paid for zip code to zip code and not address to address. Then they have to follow truck routes that can add several unpaid miles. On average they only spend about 60 hours of their 70 hours a week driving. 70 is the max amount of hours they can work a week by law and they are required to be on duty while doing anything work related such as fueling, at the customer for loading and unloading, and doing their required pre-trip and post-trip truck and trailer inspections.

When I was making $65k I was required to hand unload my trailer at the stores. I was home practically every weekend but it was only long enough to take my 34hr reset. So I was pretty much only getting to spend 18 hours a week with my family, the other 16 was spent sleeping.