3 months in otr and I like.......

If you were making along the lines $90K a year, would that help with the stress?

 

I just want to truck sir.

 

That’s what I just told someone the other day. Every load gives you kind of a sense of adventure. If you have adventure in your blood you’re one leg up in taking on this career. I get excited when I hear the QUALCOMM go off and I know it’s my next preplanned load. How will I have to drive this one, where will I need to stop, etc. etc. Some people either eat that stuff up or drives them crazy. If you enjoy it, then over the road might be for you.

It’s OK if it’s not, the industry is used to it. As I posted before, only 2% of truck drivers who go in to CDL school are driving a semi truck five years later. That’s kind of ridiculous statistic when you think about it.

 

2% is nuts I do however know that all the guys I went to school with that wanted local quit . The guys that wanted to do otr are still at it

 

I liked construction a lot better than doing linehaul for a very good ltl company. There was just too much ‘off-time’ in the construction business in the upper Midwest thru the year.
I would rather work when the weather was crappy, and have vacation during the summer.

 

I am the same way. In my mind variety is trucking

 

Propane tanker.

 

"hanging out in truck stops"?

I take my 10 hour breaks there as well as fuel and scale. Other than bathroom, showers and maybe buying a bag of ice I spend almost no time hanging out in truck stops.