Modifying a Company Truck?

no, period.

which market?

Right now it is the worst time to enter.

something to go along with that is if someone is fired, then what?

or worst yet getting into an accident with all of that crap in the sleeper, may be a problem for the insurance company.

 

Almost EVERY potential truck driver coming onto this forum vastly overestimates the time available for non-work and non-sleep activities. Whether the off-work activity is fitness or video games many assume there's going to be a varying number of hours available daily. Doing OTR, the actual non-work and non-sleep time may only be minutes per day and almost never even an hour of free time. There is a million types of trucking with a million different schedules. Some have zero room for anything but the legal requirements and some have lots of days or hours to do things you choose. What will matter is where/how you work at the company you choose. Knowing the average day or what most drivers experience isn't really going to help you because what/how you choose may produce very very different schedules than average or common for others. You will not be getting the employer to adjust almost anything, even a little, to get what you need. You will need to find/choose an employer that is already working drivers in a way that is compatible with your needs. Most newbies focus 90% of their effort on getting a "free" CDL and almost randomly picking an employer, when CDL school is hardly important at all.

You have certain requirements, choose the employer that is already accommodating toward them. Nobody else needs to approve of your requirements or your future employer. The clearer you are about all of your requirements the more clear you can be about where o work and how. IT is a lot less necessary for all newbies to spend a year in OTR than it ever was in the past. Maybe the answer is to focus on a job that has you home or off work often enough to accomplish your goals. Plenty of old-timers started when there was no chance of starting anywhere except in OTR and they have not updated their views. Some old-timers think any preference but their preference is almost a war crime. A job fitting you is the goal.

 

It sounds like you have got a pretty great life going already . Why get into trucking?
If you had your own bucket truck and did the tree work as a business you would make a killing

 

Very good question.