Can you take breaks in between your trucking career?

If that story inspires you go be a welder.. It will take you a year to amass 20k... Wannabe is a good thing for you to remain.. Go bag groceries.. You can't work like that in trucking anymore the money isn't here.

 

you can prob do that in the ND or TX Oil fields. ..... or team for six months, just be sure if u stop trucking for over a year to come back before 2 yrs as most companies want 1 yr otr in the last 3 yrs

 

I guess if you had nobody that depends on you and didn't have any big bills like rent/mortgage and car payments it might be doable financially. The bigger problem would be getting hired after doing a couple of those cycles. If they knew for a fact what you were doing they probably wouldn't waste their time hiring you.

 

Sik is right.
It might work for a year or two, but once your work history kicked in it would be bye-bye trucker.

No one wants to hire someone that they think will leave within a year.

A better option would be to work for perhaps 10 years, saving everything possible, then retire on that little piece of land with the mobile home by the stream.

 

Many truckers do take lots of time off and hang out in the Philippines. Don't need a ton of money to do that. Before I retired, I usually took a month vacation plus get an extra week or two by conveniently having flight schedule problems on return flights from China to the USA.

 

Those jobs are probably slip-seat jobs, so you can't keep an assigned truck. The truck would have to be turned in at the terminal when you take the 7 days off.

 

I heard there is gonna be another season of ice road truckers, go give that a shot LMFAO

 

Since my truck has been paid off I take a month off at least 3 or 4 times a year... if he's a good company driver that doesn't cost them $ I don't see why not as long as he doesn't mind slipseating.