The pay is still good. New drivers make .28 to .35 cents a mile solo including bonuses. Teams split up to .60 cents a mile including bonus. You have to be careful to read the fine print of any "guaranteed" milage.
It's the cost of living on the road that will eat you up. Unless you set up a kitchen in the truck meals will kill you. It's like trying to live out of Denny's and a 7/11.
It's a lot easier to do now with the big sleepers and all the improvements they have made. There's plenty of appliances made for trucks now including refridgerators, microwaves, broadband connections and satelite tv. There's a reason they call them them "condos".
The job you want to look for is driving regional. It's pretty easy to find if you live east of the Mississippi river. The midwest isn't bad, but try to avoid the "Devil's Triangle" of running Chicago, Atlanta, New York. It will beat you down very quickly.
My favorite was driving the West Coast. I love the mountains and the scenery. The East Coast was more of a grind. Toll roads, toll bridges, bad highway, traffic, bad drivers, tight spaces, low bridges, rude locals, more cops, you name it, the East Coast is a PITA driving a truck unless you live there.
Out west the roads are somewhat better overall and the cops are a bit easier to deal with because the weigh stations are farther apart. There's more space to park and it's friendlier overall to truckers. Don't get me wrong, you can still get your tail in a crack very easy. The mountains are not as steep at those back east, but the grade runs much further. It's a LONG way to the bottom of Cabbage Patch, Truckee, Tehachepe, The Grapevine and Cajone. That's not even including the steep ones off the Interstate if you have to dodge the scales.
If you have any doubt about the dedication of the cops out west, just roll into a California scalehouse with a leaky truck and bad logs. It's an experience you will not soon forget.
As far as comfort and glamour go, watch a few episodes of "Trick My Truck" on CMT. There are far more trucks running down the road in "before" condition than "after".