Career choice, get my CDL at 20?

Which city/town are you near in South Carolina?

 

Trucking is a good career choice. You'll do fine and probably make around $60G the first year.

 

60K? 1st year?

That depends on who your first carrier is.

With Schneider -- I doubt it.

-- L

 

Expand your current business. You obviously know enough about it to succeed, so far. You don't have to quit your business and enter a new industry to see if that is a good plan. Most people would prefer to research the new business and then compare what they learn to what they expected before. The average driver job is working almost as many hours as working TWO full-time "stationary" jobs except you don't see your family/friends, you don't know where you will sleep, and you have mostly bad choices of what to eat, plus people treat you like a wandering skunk, AND you get to deal with bad drivers and heavy traffic.

EVERYONE imagines trucking is just like that one long car trip they took in the past only they also get paid lots of money to casually drive to some beautiful national park. That is NOT truck driving. Shipper and receivers make appointments, drag their feet as much as necessary to do their job and then drag their feet loading/unloading your truck and then tell the other shipper/receiver the load is probably late because that lazy, filthy, no-good truck driver probably overslept or is gambling or wh*ring around some truck stop. Imagine all the pressure you have now, but had 2 rush hours per day, never being in a familiar location, not knowing if you will find a place to park so you can sleep and eating nothing but fast-food made by former meth addicts, and losing touch with friends/family. It's also slow and the economy is about to have a recession that will make 2008 look like one rainy Sunday.

 

Sadly -- the above post is all too accurate.

Especially with most reefer fleets.

-- L

 

Coast to coast reefer outfit, $60G is easy to make.
He wants to run the roads and stay out for long periods of time, so pulling reefers is a good fit.

 

Choose a good cdl school that's at least 160 hours.
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Here's one close to you:
Collins Barber and CDL Truck Driving School (collinsbarbertruckschool.com)
Trucking Program
Our roots in trucking are the core of our business. Our instructors are dedicated to training the students efficiently and safely. We teach all of our students to make sure that transfers are seamless so that time is not lost in transition. We are an accredited FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) and SC DOT ( South Carolina Department Of Transportation) school. SMALL CLASSES.

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