I have the same dream, but I try to remind myself that I probably have a very romanticized and idealized view of what it really means to be a trucker. I'm sure it's a grueling job.
My dad drove trucks and he also made it very clear - the job can be enjoyable when things are going as planned, you're sitting behind the wheel and there's nothing but empty road in front of you. But things don't always go as planned - something breaks down and you're in a middle of nowhere at 3am lying in mud underneath the axle trying to figure out how the hell you're going to fix it with your employer ringing you every 5 minutes asking for an update.
My grandfather drove oil trucks all over West Texas and I worshipped the ground he walked on. Once when I was a child I told him I wanted to be a trucker too. He sat me down and made it very clear that I did not want to be a trucker hah. Driving trucks is a hard life which is probably why there’s lots of country songs about it.
