I'm a female that just turned 55.

@Daisy2265
One suggestion before doing anything:
Go to a physician who can do DOT physicals, and have a complete physical done on you, just to make sure that you are able to pass a DOT physical.

Good luck to you and your entire family!

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, all year round.

 

Do it! I left my $80K a year job in the casino business at the age of 50 because I wanted to see the country! I went to one of the best schools in the country and it only cost me $2000. It included all the books and 1000 miles of driving. As I have stated elsewhere, I wish I could have done it 20 or 30 years sooner. I would be a retired millionaire today. I just love it. Of course I am single with no kids (none that I know of anyway), and have always been a free spirit. So I fit right in. WANTING to do something, and HAVING to do something is a crucial factor in determining happiness and/or success. In anything in life. A lot of people hate trucking because they have no other outs, so they are FORCED to do it. But if you go into trucking WANTING to do it, my guess is you will love it.

There is something about the road that touches me. Rolling slowly through a small mid-western town on a US highway at 2AM with the windows open is a religious experience for me. The main streets, the small houses...wondering what it would have been like to have grown up there.

You also learn to see the beauty within the ugliness. Most people see an old, decaying industrial city and consider them sewer-holes. Especially along the rust belt. I roll through them, and I see beauty. The history. The halcyon days of traditional Americana. Scranton, PA, Steubenville, OH, Wheeling, WV, Paducah, KY. The rural south. The wild west. Old Florida. Texas.

If you are voluntarily thinking about trucking, then you have already won half the battle. Just DON'T, I repeat DON'T go to a company-sponsored school. Yes, the are usually free, but they come with caveats. You will wish you had never taken the bait. Go to a trade school or college. A lot of times the state will pay for it, especially if you are unemployed. And now with this Covid thing, it might be easier. Good luck.

 

No you are not. There are a large group of middle aged female drivers. My suggestion is go to a company that appreciates female drivers. KLLM is not that company.
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