The journey begins - purchased a truck.

Don’t worry about driverless trucks, just get into the wrecker business, there will plenty of work.

 

^^^ THIS ^^^

Anyone whining about autonomous trucks are hauling dog food and beer. If you truly want job security in trucking, then get into ANYTHING but dry van. Read this entire thread from the beginning.

 

Cvs is the crengland of drugstores. Get in with walgreens.

 

Any of those types of institutions are crazy expensive. There's a reason they have an entire office devoted to finance applications.

I'm beginning to believe I'm the only person in history to take a 4 yr degree on the COD plan.

Edit to add: "Those types" being private colleges, the likes of Devry, Brenau, etc.

 

I think toilet paper and dog food is perfectly safe from uberization and autonomous trucking. I think autonomous trucking is a big farce. That giant sucking sound you hear is all the venture capital being sucked away and blown on the jet set lifestyles of rich and infamous worthless people who sell scams. That's uber. That's convoy. That's the government subsidized Tesla. Waste, worthless parasitic drains on real innovation. That's..... Autonomous trucking. Fake news nothingness. The technology is a pipe dream that will never happen. Are any of you,old enough to remember when Popular Science said we'd all be flying personal air planes instead of driving cars. Its science fiction. Fantasy. The logistics of even lowly ### wipe paper will always require people to get the job done.

 

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ABSOFU@#!NG LOOTLY the best advise your going to get young sir.
Hands down.

 

Everyone on here is right, getting my degree first is smart. I agree one hundred percent, but a man can dream (especially during finals and going to school and working 7 days a week since the semester started).

In terms of is trucking for me, well the three main issues I see are:
1. Lack of clean facilities, unless I one day get a condo on wheels
2. Backing- seems daunting now but that will come with practice
3. My eyesight, I have the unfortunate luck of having poor eyesight somehow- nobody in my family has this issue.
Otherwise I see no problems, lying brokers/agents? That’s life, people like that are everywhere
Disrespectful 4 wheelers- any city in the US has them, just let them be dumb and don’t let it get to you.

 

Flatbedders don't back up. IF you do HAVE to, pop knobs and go look. Back up 5 feet, pop knobs go look. Lather rinse repeat don't hit anything. That's #2 fixed

Can't help with #1 or 3

 

I have been thinking about it too lately. Dry vans can operated by anyone....including grandmothers, physically impaired and lazy...reefers all but lazy, open-deck....only capable. Open deck operators can always be a competition to others, not so much vice versa. A few months with an open deck would do me good, I got too flabby.