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Hello, I am graduating from a CDL school in TN on Feb 24th. My ultimate goal is to get into OTR doing a lease purchase at the soonest possibility. If my train of thinking is totally wrong I’m not opposed to some guidance or help. I appreciate any feedback, sorry this is short, I just don’t know what other info would help. License will be unrestricted, no accidents or anything crazy.

 

I live in TN as well, just south of Nashville.

 

Yes sir, just no haz mat. They said I have to come back once I have my CDL for that one.

 

Thanks for the lead! I appreciate it.

 

Thank you for your point of view. I am transferring into this career coming from a long career operating power plants, our move from CA to TN has been a little lack-luster as far as continuing my career with power plants (crap pay, crap days off, no advancement) so I am pursuing trucking from an all in aspect. I understand regardless of lease/owner operator hopes and dreams I will have to do some time of some form as a company driver. The appeal of having my own set up would be determining my own days off, and pay based on how much I work. So in short there is no other option I’m 100% committed to making the absolute most out of this. Having lived in CA all my life, driving has never been an issue since a typical commute could be 4hrs round trip. And on top of that Ive never really traveled much so I would really like to see the US. All my kids are older and getting off on their ways so me and the wife could use it as an opportunity to travel and see some places and vacation wherever the road takes us.