18 year old trucker?

You could get your CDL and be an o/o and purchases your own insurance

 

Get the CDL Class A. Ma & Pa LTL/TL Company ( About 50 units and 100 trailers 1 terminal and 1 small sorting center ) around me that hires 18-20 year olds. Starting pay is $21hr for intrastate. Keep your nose clean and be a mature teenager, Anything is possible. Look around your area for that Ma & Pa.



Clarify: It's never too early getting a CDL. Even better in the long run is going to a ACCREDITED CDL driving mill school. Trucking Companies / Insurance Companies love that crap.

 

..to hell with college?

 

I wish instead of going to college I put my tuition into a truck, the ROI is significantly better long run.

College is great, but in the end the money always wins....

i know several people with college degrees that have not benefitted by 'having' such a degree

 

Yeah o/o would be a mistake. A new driver with no experience will have a tough time getting insurance and if you get it, you'll pay an arm and a leg. Add to that only being 18 and it makes your insurance chances worse. Then figure that you have to be 21 to participate in interstate commerce and you won't have the greatest selection of loads.

That said I got my cdl when I was 18 so I can tell you what I did to fill the gap. I got a job working for the local miller beer distributor driving a route delivering beer. It's back breaking work but you get to drive a semi, and for an 18 year old the pay was great. When I left there I went to work as a yard jockey at a local LTL company for a few years before I turned 21 and started driving on the road for them. Moving roughly 100 trailers a night for 2.5 years means before I really started driving I had more experience backing trailers than a large portion of drivers on the road. Knock on wood but to this day I haven't had a backing accident since going on the road.

To sum it up, you will be hard pressed to find an actual driving job before you're 21 but you can do things to get relevant experience

 

18 to 23 a long time. Oh, thats rich. LOL. Trust me you'll have a life time to grow up and become a slave to the system. Don't rush it. Go party and chase women for a few years. Or like the rich call it go to....College.

 

Kid you're only 14, go be an engineer, a doctor or work with computers.
As sad as it sounds you could absolutely fail at life, still get a CDL and make decent money at 45 years old. Go to college man, truck driving will always be here.

 

Do you honestly think the advice of telling a kid to rack up 100k in loans to go to college is wise?