Consealed carry

It sucks.
LOL
No really it sucks.
Some babes there though.
I did three months and went to JBHunt and thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

BUT

I do think they have an excellent school, at least they did, and very good class room training. I got lucky, and had a very good trainer.
Back then you had to second seat for 3 more weeks after 3 weeks with the trainer, and I already knew more than that guy lol.
Don't lease a truck whatever you do.

Dry freight is where it's at. Refer sucks. I make fun of Schneider, but if I were new, and didn't have a way in the union, I'd go to Schneider.

 

Forced to lease?
They have no company drivers?

 

Ask from whatever carrier you're going to about specifics. Take what you read on places like that with a grain of salt. A huge part of trucking is that : It is what you make of it.
I can't believe they would have no company drivers.

 

They do have company drivers but they starve them then say they can get more loads if they lease.

 

Well no one ever told me the score when I started. So hear it is-

Two paths

1) You get into a union gig, and stay there forever. Or become a company driver that does more specialized ( some kind of flat bedding or gasoline tankers ).

2) You get your own truck. ( I'm hear now, wasted a few years getting hear too ). I'm leased onto Landstar on make pretty good money. Book my own loads, run when or where I want to.
Next step is get own authority and own customers. LS is very strict, and has its short comings, but there are a lot of plus's as well. And you will find a lot of the same BS where ever you go, even with your own authority.

Form a plan for one of these paths right now, and stick to it. You're going to be dog meat for the first year. So figure out where you want to be 3 years from now, and keep your eye on that mark.

 

If you do utilities, do it with those with nuclear power. One we did bought at 5 and sold at 28 several times. Profitable. But.. that kind of money is sort of play money and becomes too big to be really throwing around. 6K here 10K there it is a monster.

Retiring at 50 might not be by choice. But... if you set aside everything left over after absolute necessity and expenses plus a little bit of morale time for yourself you should have a nice pile by 50.