is it worth it?????

I've never heard of a company driver paying for fuel. you get what amounts to a credit card to buy fuel. fuel prices have nothing to do with what you'll earn. you get paid by the mile. or if you work local, by the hour or by the load.

 

Chief is correct. You won't be paying for fuel.

The thing to worry about now. Wages.

It's already happening as companies try to keep cost low. They are asking drivers to take the hit. Not the customer.

This is a NO WIN situation for drivers and their families. Wages go down, prices go up.

I believe it was Crete that just announced a pay CUT for their new drivers. While they just opened a $5 million terminal.

 

It's all about the fun and scenery right? Why get a real job where you can sleep with your wife at night when you can fight for a place to park in an over-filled truckstop at 1 AM and wake up with a view of that SWIFT truck parked square on in front of you blocking you in.

But hey, it will give you a chance to make friends when you have to go pound on his door and ask him to move for you.

It is a HORRIBLE time to be experimenting with trucking. Work at Mcdonalds on one side of town for 8 hours in the morning and then work at Burger King on the other side of town for another 8 hours in the afternoon and you will make just as much annual income and be home every night.

BRI

 

heh - I might ask, but won't be polite about it.

I'd agree - even though I've never been on the road (other than in training, and that counts for jack). The only reason to get into trucking now is if you WANT to get into trucking. It's ok to find out a year or so down the road (pardon the pun) that you don't like it - but you have to go into it with a strong desire to do it. If you are not sure *now* that it's what you want to do - don't.

Of course, this applies to OTR trucking. If you get wildly lucky and get a local or regional job right out of school, it may be workable for you. I'd not base my future plans on that, though. Odds are pretty intense that out of school, you'll spend a lot of time sleeping in some 'stop listening to the frelling reefer unit next door to you wheeze and hammer all night.