Howdy (complete newbie to this forum)

If you are willing to work long hours, be away from your family, and try to find a good paying company to make ends meet, then truck driving might be worth a shot. But you have to be willing to be away from your family for at least a month starting out.
I am sure the good people here will help you find the answers. Hang in there!
Welcome to the site.

 

Truck driving? Sure why not

 

Hey Butch, welcome aboard, trucking could be good, at least in your cubical you can get up and stand there, or walk around, strech out, not so much in a truck, but if you like sitting, try it out.... there is a good and bad everywhere in life.... but you have to make a hard choice... family? or the highway?... its tuff, heck, im 21, no kids, no wife, and it was even a hard choice for me, but now im in school, 1.5 month in have 5 more to go, and im ready for it, im going for OTR... i have a gf and she supports me 150%, or she's trying to get rid of me wahaha, nah she's not...
What did you do in the USCG?? for me it was either USCG or trucking... l think ill like this more..... Keep reading the site, read everything, or as much as you can, you can get a good local job, home every night, or out for a night or two a week, it pretty much seems like you can get the job you want here, it just always comes back to " choices "
best of luck you to and what path you chose, keep us posted

 

Jump in the waters fine! I went through trucking school in 1991 and had several ibm programmers as classmates. They had been "downsized."
The fact is this is the only career where a man/woman can go through truck driving school for 1 to 2 months and then begin making 30 to 40 grand their first year. After a few years of experience 50 to 60 grand is pretty common now a days.
Just be prepared (as the previous posts mentioned) to be on the road for 1 to 3 weeks at a time when you first start out. Getting a "local job" out of school usually doesn't happen. Everyone wants "experienced drivers" and the sad fact is the vast majority will have to go otr to get that experience.

 

Hey jlkk, i agree with what you say, and myself being a newbie, i am looking to get in with a good company, and head out otr for a few years, im thinking maybe 5 years striaght, then trying to find somthing local.. or becoming one of those amazing DOT officers haha, jk... maybe tho.... but i figured it would be the best way for me to go to a loca place and say here look!, 5 years, perfect DAC, MVR ect..
very well put my frind.