Married couple wanting to team, we have tons of questions

I am not on insulin for my Diabeties, I take Metformin and Mounjaro for it and it is a stable A1C every quarterly checkup (stable being it hovers between 6.5 and 6.8 which my doctor says is fantastic). All of my medical conditions are in control and stable so I should be good from what the consensus is here so far.

My wife's anxiety med is not on the list of meds that are exclusions for a CDL, we looked it up a couple months back. It says she will need a Dr to sign off on it saying she can operate heavy machinery and her Dr has already said he will. She said there are other med options for her anxiety that are not SSI type meds that she can take, she just hasn't yet cause what she is on works great with zero side affects. SSI meds are those that require the DR note, the others she is talking about do not. You think she should switch now, or would doing so make companies think she is not stable?

50WT,
We think we got a good idea of what to expect, as much as one can without being in it and only able to learn about it from what we can read and find online. We have stalked these forums quite a bit and watched tons of youtube videos on some of the popular trucking channels (Mutha Trucker, Trucking with Rex, Simple Livin, Alex the trucking Guy, Trucking Made Successful, Bonehead Truckers - we subscribe to all those). BTW My oldest son recently got his CDL and his first trucking job as OTR and he is in love with it, many of you helped us with that in another thread.

For me and my wife I wont go into too much detail about WHY someone would want to leave a cushy office job that is a set never changing 40 hours a week and home by 4:30 every night for a cramped up cab of a truck spending your days and nights going down the highway, but basically it is about the money. Were all working for money and when the money to be made over on that side of the fence is disproportionately more, to the money to be made on this side of the fence, its time to climb the fence . Even with the trucking industry being what it is right now the money is still quiet a bit better (for teams) compared to where we both work and our current salaries (assuming Glassdoor and the US census can be somewhat trusted for averages).

We chose refrigerated only because it consistently trends higher in pay annually and has the most consistent year-round demand for miles. We are aware of the wait times that are a major problem at shippers and receivers and the needed time management skills for time sensitive loads. Refrigerated is our starting point of companies to look at and answer if a recruiter asks us if we have a preference. In the end we are open to any freight types though cause we have zero experience and no CDL's (whomever hires us will have to help us to get it and train us).

Chinatown,
no need for companies yet, wait till the DOT medical is done and passed and we get closer to June. Who is hiring now may not be by then. I will still be here and come back and ask.

 

We are not doing CDL school first. That didn't work out so well for my son, though he did have a craptastic driving record, ours is pretty good. Not taking the risk anyways. We will both remain in our current jobs until someone has agreed to hire us and and send us to a CDL school of their own or elsewhere. We know it will require signing a contract and becoming their slave for a year but it's the best way for us. When we go to leave our current jobs we have enough accrued PTO to take about 2 months paid leave so if we get there to the school and cant pass we can just go back to work.

We use youtube, and these forums, to get a feel for what the trucking life is like. I am open to other ways that i can accomplish that task if you have some recommendations.

 

We don't have to train together and it don't matter if her trainer is male or female (she agrees to that). So long as we end up together after training we don't mind being apart for it.