Not to put a spoiler on things but I moved here 16 years ago, married an American and have a daughter with her, I love what I have but knowing what I do I can’t understand why anyone would really want to move here ?
Drivers are treated in a disgusting way by almost every company, there is virtually no vacation pay until you have been working for any company for a year, then you usually get 5 days, there are only 6 national holidays recognized by trucking companies, there is no real healthcare system, you can be fired at a minutes notice without pay, if you do anything wrong you can be suspended on the spot with no pay, you have no employee rights whatsoever, taxes are disgustingly high despite what you may think, true … you may pay less from your pay check but town taxes, village taxes, school taxes (you don’t need to have kids to pay this, it’s the law), my property taxes alone come to $600.00 a month and we live in a poorer rural area. Our healthcare insurance costs $150.00 a week and if you are sick for over 6 weeks it is cancelled and you loose every cent of your premiums and are left to go bankrupt because you can’t afford the treatments. If you have dental insurance you go to the dentist only to be told your insurance only covers a tiny bit of the costs so your ridiculously high dental charge of $10k means you will still have to pay 3/4 of it. In all you need to make a great deal of money to survive, each doctor visit that you think is covered by your insurance involves a co pay of about $25 to $50.
Now for the truck driving bit…
You will be treated like a slave. You will only be paid for the miles you cover and mostly then it will be from zip code to zip code so you loose a far bit of actual milage, you can sit around for days in a truck stop for hours or days unpaid waiting for an assigned load, you will not be paid overtime and get days off if you actually do work a holiday and as said earlier you will not get vacation pay or very little anyway.
As others mentioned, unless you are married to a US citizen you don’t have a chance anyway.
Sorry to be a spoil sport but you need to know the truth.