The highest trucker income by state is max just over 50K. Although there are some that make 80K. So that’s 4-5k take home per month (at best). Now if you were a trucker and you could go to your bank, assuming you had some history there, and get ‘free’ 5k per month to STAY HOME and NOT WORK, would you do it if your only requirement was that you not deliver anything to a dozen cities – and prevent anyone else from doing so?