US truck driver Pim becomes an Internet sensation

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

You are all wrong.

Yes I am!I was only ever wrong once when I thought I was wrong but I was right!

[overherebc]

18 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Yes I am!I was only ever wrong once when I thought I was wrong but I was right!

Strange the things you can be wrong about. Her indoors run over something and got a puncture. Seems that even although she was 150 kilometres away I was wrong because I didn't check the tyres before she left. Go figure.

[poohy]

Good for her!

Shame it could never happen here for a non thai

But poor reporting much more like 1 million THB a year

Edited November 7, 2019 by poohy

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

No mention of how she managed to find her way from Isaan to the U.S. and presumably obtain lawful status allowing employment there???

 

[Berkshire]

45 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

Sad when a Thai women doing something as ordinary as truck driving is deemed a 'sensation' They are not all dumb hookers, air heads and lazy losers.

It's sensational because she's a young cutie making US$33,000 a month driving a truck.  If she was an old fatty, she wouldn't have 45,000 followers...and I certainly wouldn't be posting on this thread....????

Edited November 7, 2019 by Berkshire

[Orton Rd]

13 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

No mention of how she managed to find her way from Isaan to the U.S. and presumably obtain lawful status allowing employment there???

 

Married and divorced?

[Bullie]

5 hours ago, Barry343 said:

If it said 30000 to 40000 baht the story would be possible believeable, unless she was carrying contraband.

Average income for an American truck driver is 43,680 dollars per year. I very much doubt she owns her own rig, and even then it would be the gross income before costs.

Even outside Thailand the Thai seemingly can not stop lying.

[LennyW]

Jeez, some amount of sad sacks commenting on here!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

12 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

Married and divorced?

 

Enquiring minds want to know!!!  

 

Most of the young, non-student Thais I knew in the U.S. were former student visa holders who stayed on illegally and worked for cash under the table.

 

Edited November 7, 2019 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

28 minutes ago, poohy said:

Good for her!

Shame it could never happen here for a non thai

But poor reporting much more like 1 million THB a year

 

No learn math numbers in Thai scule...   

[Orton Rd]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Enquiring minds want to know!!!  

 

Most of the young, non-student Thais I knew in the U.S. were former student visa holders who stayed on illegally and worked for cash under the table.

 

Same in the UK

[thailand49]

For sure if she is driving a rig in the U.S. she got retrained at a school to learn correctly or trained by someone who has!  She can make that if she is older operator but regardless she would still have to follow the restrains of being a truck driver.  Most likely in general she isn't accounting for the taxes etc she has to pay into the system no way of getting around it if she is a legal.

 

There is a shortage right now for truck drivers she indicated she has been in the U.S. 5 years smart move.  As long as she is certified and licensed being in a Union she would have no problems driving a rig.

[Monomial]

4 hours ago, DrDave said:

A little simple math regarding the 1 million THB per month....

1 million THB = 33,000 USD

 

Average pay for a truck driver is around .33 per mile.

 

Let's see how many miles per day a driver would have to drive to make 33,000 USD per month:

$33,000 / .33 per mile = 100,000 miles per month

100,000 miles / 30 days per month = 3,333 miles/day

 

Average highway speed = 65 miles per hour

3,333 miles per day / 65 miles per hour = 51 hours per day

 

So.... I suppose that if there were 51 hours in a day, she worked every day of the month, and never slept, then she could make 1 million THB per month.

 

I'm not sure where these ridiculous numbers came from in the English language press. My wife actually follows this girl, and says she makes around $8000 USD per month. But it is hard work and lots of overtime.

 

My wife, who is 4 ft. nothing, now says she wants to move to the US and drive an 18 wheel truck.  I asked her if she knew how to double clutch. Her response? "What's a clutch?"  She's only ever driven an automatic. It's almost worth packing up the family and going just for the entertainment value...

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

9 minutes ago, Monomial said:

My wife, who is 4 ft. nothing, now says she wants to move to the US and drive an 18 wheel truck. 

 

Just get her a pile of phone books, and she's good to go!!!   

[BTB1977]

I call BS on that number.  The average trucker makes 32,000 to 60,000 per year.  There are cases where it can be higher.  

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, Orton Rd said:

... They are not all dumb hookers, air heads and lazy losers.

And accordingly all the little Thai bashers heads are fixing to explode.

[Longcut]

44 minutes ago, Bullie said:

Average income for an American truck driver is 43,680 dollars per year. I very much doubt she owns her own rig, and even then it would be the gross income before costs.

Even outside Thailand the Thai seemingly can not stop lying.

Maybe for a driver driving for a low life company like Swift. Or a recent graduate of a Truck Driving School. 

[GinBoy2]

I think this is a great story.

 

Yeah the money that is claimed she earns is ridiculous, but the youtube income is probably pretty decent to add to the trucking income.

 

The truck wont be owned, it's either leased or she works for a trucking company.

 

Either way, interstate truckers earn pretty decent money, Hell of a lot more that driving a sugar truck in Isaan, thats for sure.

 

She's a pretty girl, doing a decent job, and is milking the fan base for ad revenue. Kudos to her.

 

The family should be proud of her.

 

Thankfully, all US States require some pretty rigorous truck driving training before they issue a CDL, so thankfully her sugar truck driving skills are long forgotten!

[JaiLai]

3 hours ago, NanLaew said:

I take it you aren't at all that up to speed on social media? Never mind, neither am I but did you miss that it's the Nation that claims she's 'broadcasting' in her Isaan dialect to her fellow Isaan speaking, Thai fans?

 

A frequent Thai basher's complaint is how pathetically, herd-followingly parochial Thai people can be, keeping themselves to themselves and their introspective and small-world ways are some of the things that allegedly make them the 'laughing stock of the world' to coin an unimaginative and frequently used trope.

 

Now we have an enterprising young Thai making the best of her opportunities overseas and sharing this with her kith and kin back home. Whoa! Can't have that now can we?! A Thai person being a success, showing a bit of gumption and breaking ALL the stereotypes that the Thai bashers hold dear and love to recycle here? That's... that's... HERETICAL!!!

She's a truck driver, she has not invented a cure for cancer...

[JaiLai]

3 hours ago, neeray said:

Not exaggerated at all. I know truckers that are making double and triple that amount.

She's still learning the ropes and should have many green lights ahead of her.

 

Go Pim go.

You know truck drivers that are making 2 or 3M baht a month?

 

Really???

[ourdon]

6 hours ago, DLock said:

 

I'm pretty sure she is making more than USD$1,000 per month.

 

It may not be USD$33,000, but long haul truck drivers do ok, so I would not be surprised if she was pulling decent money.

 

...and good on her. I hope she is.

Got offered long haul once.  It didn't interest me but I would think she could be earning about 300,000 per month.

[Oziex1]

6 hours ago, JaiLai said:

Yeah but why does she need to broadcast it, there's plenty people in every country that come from humble beginings that go on to great success without having to let the world know.

 

45,000 followers......why?

Wannabe's? Happy for one from their country doing well, she's pretty, all sorts of reasons to follow her in the age of social media.

 

Good story, not believing the figure quoted as her monthly income though.

Edited November 7, 2019 by Oziex1

[yellowboat]

There was or is a huge shortage of truck drivers in the US, but USD30K a month sounds outrageous.  Any Thai who leaves Thailand has a chance to break the inertia that holds them back.  Good for her. 

 

https://www.thetruckersreport.com/infographics/cost-of-trucking/

 

USD30K a month could be gross. 

[PETERTHEEATER]

..........I haven’t forgotten my native tongue and I try to use it as often as possible,”.....

 

If she was my girlfriend I would tell her the same thing.......????

 

[Tony125]

7 hours ago, Barry343 said:

30000 baht a month would be nearer the mark.

 

No way , 30,000 baht would be less than a thousand USD a month. No driver anywhere in US drives for that little.

The US Labor Department pegs the median annual salary for all truck drivers at around $40,000.Oct 9, 2015

 

Below  link from CNN states $73,000  ---$100,000

https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/09/news/economy/truck-driver-shortage/index.html

[Don Mega]

Maybe the 1 million is per year, not month.

[Almer]

8 hours ago, DLock said:

Regardless, that a great story...

 

And with that money, she can buy land in her name, doesn't need to report where she is staying every night on the road and enjoys free speech online...

 

If only...

Yes a tad one sided .

[tifino]

but, what does she actually drive??  - a HiAce? 

 

even a little F250 is called a 'truck' 

[moe666]

9 hours ago, JaiLai said:

1M baht a month, think that might be a little bit exageratted........just a bit.

That is only 30,000 a year a bit low for a truck driver but most are only making 40,000 to 45,000 a year a month no

[SteveK]

So she's earning more than the president of the USA by driving a truck? I highly doubt that.