Do Online College Classes and Trucking Mix?

David, wise advice, sir wise advice. Once you pull the trigger that round is gone. My wife is one of the most even tempered, rational and centered people I've ever known. In fact I've heard her cuss, maybe twenty times in the 12 years we have been married, but dude, her phone goes off with these schools and she starts with the moter fawker, I got the kids in fox hole dig in in mode.

 

I am a current college student and plan to start truck driving after this semester. I may or may not return to school.

There is a self paced school called Western Governor's University where you pay every 6 months and complete what you can in that time. Something like this is all I would be brave enough to do, and even then, not at first until I got used to trucking. I personally would look for a company with really good hometime like 14/7 or even some food service that works 4 days a week, or other weekend off type jobs. It would take a lot of discipline and I personally wouldn't major in a STEM major, but that's just me personally.

If you are just looking to take one or two classes at a time, I am guessing you could knock out some easier general eds. Those often. Don't take too much time in my experience.

 

Why not? We had a driver that became a Lawyer that way. Of course he didn't take all of his classes that way but the one's he could. We are local to so he did his studies while waiting to load or unload.

 

To the OP and others out there who think this would be a good idea, I'm going to be frank with you.

It is a great thing to get a college degree online but ... it takes work and if you think that you can do it while driving a truck, think again.

For the most part for the first year or so, it is a learning time for you in the truck, about the truck, about your job and about the road, not to be distracted with stuff like trying to get assignments done or meeting some other requirements. Sure you may have time a shippers but you can't count on that time. And if you think you can do this within your 10 hour reset, think again - after you have driven all night, you need sleep, not to play with trying to figure out some problems that have nothing to do with your job.

Those who have been successful have normally been those who are part of teams or have a solid time management skills where they can balance time to accomplish things that are a struggle for people, like a college course.

Those people also have something else that is very important in life, a stable working relationship with the company they work for. <<< that will be your hardest accomplishment for the first couple years and may be one that will change a couple times until you find a company that fits your needs.

 

This is complete BS... I guess you side with the 400lb drivers who don't have 30 minutes to exercise but have enough time to sit at the buffet?


I would think for an hour a day to take your mind off of the trucking job and everything that comes along with it is 100% doable and probably a stress relief in its self to get your mind on to something else... I am not sure who the OP will be working for but being a New driver I'm sure its going to be on of the Mega's and without a doubt he isn't going to be working 14 hours a day...Especially on E-Logs... If he already has college credits he will be smart enough to figure out that when he comes to certain shippers and receiver's that he will be at that location for a couple of hours and can easily get his hour of "homework" in instead of eating potato chips and playing xbox...


Ridgeline if you think for the "first year" all these Mega Companies fresh drivers are spending a 24 hour period on nothing but the "trucking Industry" you have a lot to learn... DOESNT happened WONT happen NEVER has...nor should it... people need time away

 

It is possible, I took a lot of my degree classes online, not all at one time but I would take one or two per semester and usually used a hour or two of my ten hour break and weekends at home to complete the classes. Was kinda tough at first but I got around it.

 

I might try to go for my Associate's degree in Logistics Management at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, TX.

I'll be local though so that helps.