Newbie

first off,you aint going home for along time, the truck will be home. getting paid, chump change, when they take all your muney for the training school. good luck

 

I mean no disrespect, young grasshopper, but there's a wealth of knowledge and experience in every thread here at TTR. Get some coffee and start reading--it's a good investment. No one can say that you will or won't like trucking. Only time will tell. Few of us knew what we'd find on the road. That is why we went.

 

Some are cut out for this lifestyle (note that I said lifestyle, not JOB) and some are not. There is no way to know unless you make the leap. I recently made the leap myself, and am very pleased that I did. Listen to the advice given to you by the experienced drivers on TTR, and do your own research here and elsewhere.

 

where is it that your from? what state?

Schneider = a 60mph truck.....




American Trucker

 

go to the best school you can find, then call roxy in recruiting at Watkins Shepard Trucking.




American Trucker

 

OTR is very unique to each driver. In that I mean each driver gets and takes something completely different than all others from there experiences driving OTR. You may fit the bill perfectly for OTR and hate it as soon as you start driving, and visa versa. You could have personal qualities that make you a predictable failer in every aspect, and you could do very well at it and love it. There is no way to figure out weather you will like it ahead of time.

This job does take your life away from you as you now know it and replaces it with a completly different life. Hence the repeated saying its a lifestyle not a job. Your life now exist of a home, friends, family, acquaintances, pets ets. Your life OTR consist of living an extremely solitary lifestyle away from your friends and family, with very little psychological stimulus. Mostly driving which at first will be a challenge and quite stimulating, then you become good at driving so you let your eyes wonder a second here and there and start looking at the scenery, that takes a while to loose its appeal, never really does, just hard to run a truck mentally if scenerie is all you have for me at least. You dont get paid very well, and you live in a steal box, use only public restrooms, showers, sometimes have to without restrooms or showers. Food is nothing but fast food. Grease and meet morning evening and night. If you dont force yourself to exercise and always show restraint when eating, you will become grotesquely obese in a very short amount of time, then comes heart problems, clogged arteries, stroke risk, just falling down. When you get obese just walking to the truck stop a few hundred feet from your truck is a workout, so you become lazy and start pooping in your truck (pooping in a 8X8 foot steel box, thats gona smell real bad for a very long time, especially if you eat 10 pounds of food every day, which equals 10 pounds of poop.) I pretty sure fat people cant wipe there behinds, so that will make you smell bad. Maby you get so lazy you stop showering. Eventually you will get used to those nasty smells, and learn to like them. You will seek out a women who smells the same and has simular qualities, and start driving team. Switch company's for one that has automatics because you are soooo lazy pushing in the clutch is just to much work for you. I dont know where this is going or how I got here, forget so Im gona end it here, dont have to but still gona.

 

yea............thats why i work there. lol



American Trucker