antiterror13
Brigadier
Well these stories are definitely outliers. Maybe one welder in a thousand gets paid "couple hundred thousand" for welding railway tracks. Sorry but while this may be a rare and important skill worth paying well for, there probably are other reasons he's paid so much e.g. dangerous work conditions, long hours, worker rights rules that multiply pay over certain hours etc.
Truck drivers rarely make 250K/year. The majority are somewhere between 50K to 100K per year. If you're driving alien spaceship parts between area 51 and some research facility in a city, yeah okay maybe lol.
Highly paid skills (>200K/year) are rarely trade related and usually academically demanding.
During iron ore boom before GFC 2008/09, truck drivers in Australia indeed could get A$200K, the work condition was extremely tough and in the middle of nowhere. My colleague, she was a manager resigned from the position and she took truck driver training (3-6 months) and she was heading to Australia to become a truck driver (iron ore mine). YES, a female
That boom is long gone, unfortunately