Former Accountant Looking to Get Into Trucking

Hope you still feel that way in 10 years.

 

Well, Rick G lets you know where he stands. I might not agree all the way with his views towards the big carriers (simply because some do make it and enjoy it), but don't brush him off without a good think. It's a crazy, dysfunctional system. Are you ready for it?

 

The best advice you could get is above when Nashville driver mentioned A Duie Pyle. Good pay, decent company.

 

Get as much training as possible. The last thing we need out here is an impatient rookie behind the wheel of these behemoths, putting everybody's lives at risk. I've been driving for 34 years and I still don't "know it all" and have my bad days.
You state that you were an... accountant? How much driving experience do you have driving any kind of truck? Ever been in a tractor trailer? Ever driven on solid ice? Through a snow storm for more than 20 miles? Through hurricane like winds that blows your loaded (80,000 lbs) trailer from side to side? Ever come down a 9% grade mountain with a full load (again...80,000 lbs)? Probably not and you want as little training time as possible? It's never going to happen. Nobody or no company is going to put you behind the wheel of a $200,000.00 vehicle with a possible million dollar load without the proper training and time. You would be nothing but a danger to you and the public.
Driving these big rigs is not like driving a pick-up truck. It takes patience, stamina, common sense and skill. Do yourself and all of us out here who take this job seriously a big favor, go to a truck driving school or a company that will take the time and effort to teach you as much as possible. Once your out of school and on your own, that's when your "on the job training" begins. You never stop learning in this business and the day you think you "know it all" is the day you'll either die or kill somebody else.

 

try stevens transport.