I want to drive truck!!!

I have to say tis true tis true. Honesty is always the best policy, but it does not always have to hurt anothers feelings, or make them feel bad!!! On another note, both my boys are completely fearless of anything or anyone !!!!!!!!!!

 

I agree we should not attempt to be so negative that we hurt someone but we do need to say what it's like out here.
I could no more tell her what to do then I could anyone else just try and remind her of the thing thats called REALITY.
My son also fears nothing unless it's out of his control as it was for him yesterday.
Fear dose not come from something you can see fear comes from something you can't see and no one person can stand and not carry fear.

 

Well I should have added fearless in the minds of a 14 and 15 year old, that sounds better.Yes again you are right.

 

It seems to me that the gist of the situation resides in the realm of "who wants mommy to be a truck driver"? Well, no one does. We all want mom to be there when we are sick or scared or need someone. On the other hand I believe that all moms and dads have had to make some hard decisions in regard to what was best in the long run. We all know great fathers who are on the road. The bugaboo regarding a young mother being on the road strikes me as a little bit hollow. As I said in my post before, many a young father has made his living in this business. It is not ours to decide, simply to share our experiences.

As a finale. Sure as shooting you can make more than 22K per year take home as a young driver. Yes, it's gonna be hard as hades some days. Is the oft mentioned lifestyle of driving rewarding enough to offset the hardships? We dunno. If it is in you to do this job/live this life then finding the ways to make it all work out will come as a matter of course. I love this lifestyle enough to have made my own hard decisions, but I don't suggest it to people anymore, it is a unique calling.

 

Thank All Of You Students And Wanabees And Stay At Homes For Blowen Smoke Up Amandas Dress.------handyman.

 

YES, LISTEN TO THIS GUY.HIS KIDS ARE LIVING WITH AND BEING RAISED BY HIS PARENTS,NICE GOIN LURCH..HI FROM FOSSIL BRAIN OLD FART WHOS KID IS GROWN AND DOIN GREAT.

 

So, you fall into that trap - not reading the entire posts. Let me refresh your memory:

That says, kids living with my parents several months out of the year - until recently. Not all year, and most certainly not currently.

As for being raised by my parents... there's nobody I'd rather see raise my kids if something happens to me and my wife. In fact, there are provisions in our will specifically for that, and have been since the first was born. If my parents can't do it, one of my sisters gets the nod.

Not trying to be a jerk - but how many people do you know that even CONSIDERED making that kind of provision? I bet right around 100% of the folks on this forum never gave it a thought.

Back to Amanda and others like her. I fail to see the difference between Mom being 1400 miles away when Johnny falls out of the tree, and having Dad be 1400 miles away. Whoever is gone, the kid will miss - particularly if the stay-at-home parent mopes around the house missing his/her partner.

Oh - and just for the record, women are allowed to vote now. What IS the world coming to?

 

I would highly discourage you from starting a career in trucking right now, wait a few years until your son is older

doing this will give your son and you some time to grow up some more together and it will also give the industry a chance to get back on its feet after being kicked in the nuts by $5 per gallon diesel prices

the industry is hurting very badly right now, everyone who owns a vehicle is struggling and have to change their daily routines to offset gas prices, but the price of everything from a loaf of bread to a plasma TV is skyrocketing also because all of is picked up and delivered to that store by a truck, people arent buying near as many luxery items, which equals less loads to be moved and less miles to be driven

there is a few medium/large sized companies that have shut their doors and put up for sale signs thanks to the price of diesel

thats just my 2 cents,

but if you really want to start a driving career so that you can better provide for your son, by all means do it, you are a grown woman and not me or anybody else here can tell you what to do, the only thing i ask from you is that you seriously consider the costs to your family relationship and the relationship you have with your son with you being on the road all the time.

 

and for the record you can start out with schneider with no expierience and go straight to a local or dedicated run, or even their homerun program

there was several people in my class who went straight from the classroom dedicated accounts (family dollar, georgia pacific, sears and a few others with some of them being home every night and most being home on weekends) and a few went straight to truck rail driving around in a day cab

 

I have a feeling that even though you want to better yourself you really don't want to do this. I have worked in a factory before, day shift and night shift. They both wear you down to a point where you feel like you have no choice at all. I remember standing at a factory job one night staring down the line. when I came back to thinking I could not remember what day it was. What time it was. Or what exactly I wsa doing. I quit three days later. I gave up. Now I work on, drive trucks on set routes, and deliever trucks to all corners of the US. The longest I have been away from family was 6 weeks. I couldn't take it. I felt out of place not being able to see the ones I cared about. I called the company up and told them I was taking a few days off. I headed home. If you do it you are going to feel the same way, but I think that you will actually feel worse about it then I did. I enjoy my job. I really do. I make decent money but yet I still wonder where it all goes. I would tell you to find something else outside of a factory job. Outside of trucking. Something that you can live with. I have read that a lot of people say yes or no but you are the only one that can answer if you can really deal with being away from your child for that long.

Have a nice evening.