How did you get started driving a truck?

Wanderlust.

 

This about covers it

*stupid phone keypad

 

Boredom from living overseas after a few years. I can only deal with the trucker lifestyle for no longer than 5 months at a time, as it really involves sacrifice for the meager pay. Plus I always wanted to try it out. Will go back to it in a month or so.

 

Mine is just as strong now as in the beginning; teen years.
Small country town of Tennessee to:
U.S. Navy
Trucking
Own home in Las Vegas & Beijing; travel back and forth.
Train trips.
Just within the past month spent time in San Jose,CA and Las Vegas,NV and Nashville,TN and heading to China in couple of weeks.
Wife is 30 years younger than me so she loves my wanderlust because she goes with me.

 

Lord, I was born a Ramblin' Man.

 

When I was 19 mgrandpa called me a vagabond fivured I might as well well own it. Now I do regional home every night because of the wife. But one day ill be in my own tractor rolling for months at a time again.

 

3rd generation. I've got a college degree in computer networking and jobs there went south.

 

TV series "Movin On" with Claude Akins. It came on just after i got out of the Navy and looked like the thing to do.
Then trucking deregulation came in 1980 and it's been downhill ever since.

 

Don't forget "BJ and The Bear". I remember growing up when trucking almost had a mystique and dare I say glamor to it. Now its becoming the job choice for layed off America.