Will Donald Trump Save Jobs? Future Of Truck Driving Shows How Hard Governing Might Be

Fourteen hour days sitting in the cab of a truck has given Bryan Peters nearly everything he wanted from life. His trucker's salary helped him raise his now-adult daughter, build his dream home and carve out a few hours on weekends to hit the golf course. It's a version of the American dream, Peters, a lifelong self-described Republican, has faith President-elect Donald Trump will protect for future generations of truck drivers and other working-class Americans like him. "He understands the working class man out here, he worked his ass of to get where he is today," Peters, 48, said in a phone interview with International Business Times. "It doesn't matter if it's a driver, factory worker, whoever, [Trump is] going to put more jobs on the table... Truck driving, one of the most common working-class job in Trump's economy, brings good pay and doesn't require a college degree. But like many of the blue-collar jobs the president-elect regularly promised to save during his campaign, its ...