I still love trucking it is actually a very easy job for me

been doing this along time now, still actually enjoy the driving part. lol. was a quality control dept. manager ,before and construction before that.

the stress in an office job can be bad !! don't miss it a bit. went to driving and saw my kids MORE ! I worked alot of weekends to get stuff done, when no one was about. I have been home on weekends almost the whole time driving.

the only stress part is the city or holiday traffic. maybe I'm getting old ,lol.

 

I love trucking! Its the pick ups and delivering I don't like lol

 

i love my days off, my weekends off, my short work hours, my DD iced tea, my paycheck

everything else, sucks, and i hate it.

 

going to driving school at the end of the month. i, too, have worked many types of jobs like you posted. currently working in IT and am giving it up to chase a dream (ie, truck driving). I just wanted to say your post is refreshing to hear. I've been lurking these forums quite a lot lately and you hear a lot of negativity. The fact you have the same type of employment background as me and still enjoy driving makes me very optimistic about my new career choice. Thanks for posting.

also, choosing to leave the soul-crushing, cube dwelling corporate life is, im sure, the best decision i've ever made.

 

My hat comes off to you guys. I too (53 years old) had the hard jobs at a young age, worked in the corporate world ( with all the bs politics ) and owned a couple of businesses (cash flow, employee stress). I worked OTR a couple of years ago and just miss it. I'm getting back into it as we speak. Yeah there is some negative, but what does'nt have it's negatives. I feel very secure in trucking. Don't feel stress, I feel responsiblity. Nice knowing if I do the right thing, I will never be out of a job. Love having a tractor which I can set up and be self sufficient. I have much more freedom to live where I want. With today's technology it's better than ever (GPS, Laptop, Netflix, digital TV, ect.). My wife loves to come with me when she can.

And at some point I will have options to go local or regional. Oh yeah, and I love trucks.

 

heck yea...bought a new smart phone with a huge data plan. got all the apps lined up --> Trucker Tools, FuelLog, myDAT, FreeZone and of course Google Maps for GPS.

That's awesome. I can't wait to bring my son with me on a few runs during the summer. He's gonna absolutely love it

 

Well the work itself is not hard. Pulling a dry van, I get to sit in the AC all day.

It can be hard if you're an idiot. I've had some idiot co-drivers who always made it hard on themselves because of all the mistakes they made, because they were idiots. One even told me he became a truck driver because he was too stupid to do anything else. I told him he was too stupid to be a truck driver as well.

 

I am 30 years old, I left school at 15 years old . I was at sea working on commercial fishing boats all my working life up until I started trucking in 2010. Trucking is a cake walk compared to commercial fishing. When guys complain about being away from home for 3 months I just think "how about you try 6 to 9 months on a 100 foot boat 600 miles offshore in probably the most dangerous working environment short of a war zone!". Driving truck deffinately has its BS days and I have done my share of complaining about it as well, but as far as a "hard" job, it really isnt at all. I am not saying being away from family and friends is easy when driving truck but if you put it in perspective compared to other jobs, its really not that difficult to drive truck. As was said in an above post, some guys make it hard for themselvs through their lack of thinking and common sense. I think the problem alot of drivers face is that this industry is not there chosen career. When I took my CDL training course there was 15 people in the class and at least half were there due to extended unemployment and were being "re-trained" to become drivers so they could get a job. Any person pushed into this job as a last resort for employment is not going to like it at all. I remember that 3 or 4 of the other students were married and had families and you could tell they had no interest whatsoever in driving truck. They were screwed from the start, pushed into it to keep from losing whatever benifits they were getting. Those are the bitter, negative drivers that cant find one good thing about the industry as they didnt want to be in it from the get go.

 

Where else can you sit on your butt all day and make money???.....I LOVE my job. I get my load, my route and fuel stop, and then they leave me alone to get to where I need to be. On my down time I have my laptop, TV, movies, Netflix, and other things to keep me occupied. I am out for four weeks and go home for four days.