I want to be a trucker!!!

The film industry makes good, how about soap opera's, fill in's, stunts or a major star? The possibilities are there. but focus on your education. unless you were born with a silver spoon and the wisdom to keep it.

 

It's tough to make decent money out here. Especially if you are a company driver or lease operator. The wages in trucking today are about the same as they were in the 70's. In the 70's, 40-50K per year was a #### good living. Today, it's very hard to make a living on that. Keep that in mind. And what you sacrifice to make that little amount of money just isn't worth it. You risk your safety driving every day with lunatic 4 wheelers cutting you off, you risk your freedom if God forbid you make a mistake and hurt someone, you miss your families entire life, etc. I've only been driving two years and I'm ready to hang it up. It's not what I thought it would be. You don't "see the country". You see roads and warehouses.

 

This ^^ shoot for all the things your dreaming about and put trucking last. You can become a truck driver at any age.

 

You can do college/trucking/military at the same time. Join the Army/Air Force Guard/Reserves while in high school, then basic training once you graduate, start college when you graduate basic. Find a local trucking co / farmer / construction that will help you get your cdl @18 yro and then hire you for INTRAstate (until u r 21) driving on nights/weekends/summers etc. I did something very similar to this.
With that said, go to school for something that you are passionate about. Also, what are you doing now for a part time job?

 

He should become a divorce attorney for the big bucks.

 

Kid screw driving, it is the last place you want to put your talent.

This is a dangerous business, it is more dangerous than being a cop, your life is in the hands of others and many times they are sub-standard humans who don't give a crap about anything but themselves.

I learned hard lessons by not listening to people, got into this business and then talked out of it back in the age when it was actually hard work but easy to deal with. I went on to school, got a really good education and worked in some fantastic jobs, travelled all over the world, met some great people BUT if I stuck to trucking, I would have missed out on all of that. I ended up back here to pay the bills but decided that I need to do more than that and built a business out of this.

My kids will never do this work, they may manage the fleet I own but never will they go on the road - they are too smart to waste it on that. They too have travelled somewhat in their lives, I saw that they didn't get stuck in the typical summer camp/mini weekend vacation crap, but took them to Europe and other places. My eldest already got his plane down. He decided to go into the Air Force in a couple years (he said it will always be there) then to school after he leaves the Air force, he wants to be a pilot. But before any of that, he wants to learn about Aircraft so right now is working on getting his A&P through apprenticeship before he enlists. My eldest daughter may follow in my footsteps, getting more than just one degree in different things but she says she has time to experience things first hand before going to school - as she puts it she doesn't want to deal with a bunch of immature idiots in college and have to build her tolerance up for them.

My advice, is simple. learn how to figure out what you want.

 

I'm pursuing a career in tucking just passed the combination section of the written test so I have class AP permit now & should be enrolling in school here in Georgia I'm currently working at a Pharmaceutical Warehouse & need a change I'm 47 & cant do the forklift box lifting all night anymore ,

 

I'm 47 & pursuing a trucker career enrolling in school here in Georgia in May I just passed the Gen Knowledge Air brakes Passenger & Combination part of the written test that's all I'm interested in roomers from friends say that it will be next year before I start driving on my own but the school tells me that I should have my license by July I wanna have experience to handle the truck should I go over the road the first year or go local ?