Approved for truck driving academy. Getting cold feet

Go for it. It was nerve racking for me to up and leave and drive 1000 miles to trucking school in my 20 year old vehicle wondering if I was.making the right.choice and if my old truck would make it too. Maxed out credit cards just to get buy all.month and to pay for the gas to school and tolls alone close to $300 one way. Here we are now a month later I'm back home in my home state with a CDL in hand and going on phase 2 after Christmas with a driver trainer.

It's scary but an exciting scary if that makes sense.

 

You'll do fine.I had cold feet too but once I got in the truck with my trainer it all disappeared almost instantly.Maybe cause I had a good trainer.He was a slob but a good trainer.After a couple weeks with him I turned him into a neat freak and better hygiene lol.

 

That means you are rejoicing in battle. You will be fine. If you are going out, do it happy with the boots on LOL.

 

I did the same exact thing. Looked at all the worst case scenarios and it's done nothing but hold me back from starting. Since I have certain health issues it was something I had to think long and hard about. I wouldn't want to be stuck in a snow storm out in the middle of nowhere during any asthma issues.

 

I'd go for it.

I kind of had that feeling of dread when I was getting ready to jump. Was in a decent computer related field,, until wages started to drop and I was jumping from one sinking ship to another.

I'm pretty happy in the new digs. Spent a year OTR (tanker), then another few years sorta OTR (out and back tanker loads, home weekends, three nights in the truck avg).

And now over the past few years, I've had an easy home every night job, about 50 hr/wk avg, good income and benefits.

There's lots of unhappy drivers and a few happy drivers. Talk to the latter,, the ones who make good money, the ones who like their job. Pick their brain. You'll figure out why many hate it, and why some like it.

Good luck!

 

Page 35 to 36 or so on this PDF will clearly define the limits of asthma qual. I would think you want to be in Arizona rather than Idaho in winter, it might save your life not being so cold.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/pulmonary1.pdf

 

Thank you x1heavy. Well I think my issue might have to be due to the fact I live with a smoker and it causes a hoarse, gluey throat and sometimes I'll start coughing and choking because it's so irritated that when I swallow food it will trigger the cough. That and the post nasal allergy from the secondhand smoke. Which is why I want to give trucking a chance to move out of this situation. I thought maybe if I sign up with Schneider I could go to Phoenix and see if getting away from the smoke and being in the desert would clear it all up.