Orientation/ first three months/ living in truck

Once a week... once a week?!
Let’s try ..
Buffets...
Outback...
Cracker Barrel...
Nothin’ like sufferin’ out here...

 

He is just starting out. I doubt he is gonna have $60 - $100. Extra a week to buy or have time to eat every day.
When you begin your not flush with money. Also you don't need an extra 200lbs on you in a year.
Once he learns the ropes and gets frugal with money, he will understand how he will do his methods on the road.

Look at what @Dragonheart said above. it's possible and doable.

You eat to live not live to eat.

 

Well then what do you call the company that has 100 to 200 trucks?

 

My fuel gloves are separate from my work gloves for a reason. I don't want fuel on the freight I'm hauling. That's solid right there.

What might be a bit more challenging, and what I learned here on these forum.. chaining, and doing other duties in the snow... most gloves suck. All you can do here is layers. Keep replacing them as they go bad because the moisture will ruin them. And all you can do is dry them on your defroster after you soaked them chaining.

 

I had a pair I used only for fueling...it was once brown, but now its black.That pair will stink any cab no matter how much Lysol you try to use.

My codriver feels that he is allergic to Lysol spray. So I will replace my gloves more often than the average person might.

All you can do with your pee jugs is toss them as soon as you make them. The rookies are always adverse to pee bottles in the beginning, you have to warm them up to it. At first it can be an awkward discussion but soon when you are on a highway with no shoulder or bathroom for a lot of miles they will warm up to the idea... or they will retire with a plastic bladder baggie on the outside of their body.

Just don't be like my trainer and store weeks worth behind your seat. That's just too much and it might eventualy make your steers overweight.

 

You gotta get rid of them anyway you can. Unbelievable

 

I-55 Missouri exit 19 Mom and pop truckstop before the Pilot. Get there before 6pm.

Try the ribs or the pork steak. You can thank me later.

 

Jokes aside you can make a great deal of money teaming with your wife in trucking. I have been trying to get my parents to do it because they are struggling to find a way to retire.

I earned 80k my first year teaming. The rumor is that Old Dominion teamers make 100k and above. So if you did that you two would be making combined 200k plus at least.

The joke is you shouldn't smell balls for less than 100k (I think TripleSix said that) which kinda stuck to me and made sense. If you can make 50k doing a job solo, you can make twice that as a team. You are both getting paid for all miles driven. So 50k for you becomes 100 as a team, and with your wife she will also be pulling 100k.

And since you are in league with your partner, well.. yeah... $$$$$. Learn to invest and grow your money and you will be setting yourselfs up for a very comfortable retirement.