I don't know what it is about trucks but it's something inside a person that makes them want to be around them.
Just remember to be ready to spend some time away from home. Most of the unhappy drivers out here didn't expect to have to spend so much time away from home. They heard you could gross some good money. Some drivers luck out and get an ideal job that gets them by home more, but you usually have to spend a while getting experience out here before that kind of job appears.I am just looking for a decent career. Been checking this out for a while, still haven't made up my mind whether to start driving or not.
Debra,
It's not all that great. You see most of the us from the interstate, you see the wort part of most towns and you find out things about your fellow humans that you probably didn't want to know anyway.
Yes, it can also be great fun.....but you have to take the nasty with the good.
After traveling half the country in a motorhome for a year, I decided to take up truck driving so somebody else can pay my traveling expenses. But its like the previous poster has said, you see most of the country from the interstate. Sometimes, if time allows, I'll find a US hwy to travel and see a bit more. The downside is when you get to a destination or have to take your 10-hour or 34-hour break, you don't have other transportation to explore or go site seeing. I have rented a car, but that can get expensive if you do it too often.
my high school guidance counsler told me i was too stupid to get a real job. he gave me two options, suicide or trucking. unfortunitly i couldn't afford a gun so i took up driving in '91 and have done it ever since. seen the good and seen the bad sides of it. overall a positive expeerience in my life.
I have always loved to travel. When I turned 50 I was single, tired of running my own greenhouse/business, and bored. My son was driving then and I asked him about driving. He responded '"Mom, people aren't nice out there." I told him,"If you act like trash, they will treat you like trash, if you act like a lady they will treat you like a lady, and there are jerks everywhere.
I flunked out of driving school twice, got my license the third time around. Paid my dues with some big companies, who couldn't remember who I was. Found local otr company (and met my husband to be there, we teamed for 6 years before getting married.) We retired from one of the best companies in the US New Century Transportation out of New Jersey. They run you hard - ltl across country-- but they pay good and they get you home when you want for as long as you want. Insurance is Blue Cross/Blue Sheild.
My memoies are both good and bad. But I wouldn't trade the time I spent on the road for anything.
Now that's one shitty guidance counselor. You shoulda bought the gun and shot him (kidding).