Seriously considering being a driver, have a few questions

unless you get 100% drop and hook. And it does not change pay during training anyway. The best day of my life was when I got out of my trainer's truck so I could sleep at the end of a 14 hour day of driving.

Until you have spent 10 hours in the bunk day after day you can only talk about team driving like I talk about being an astronaut. It is very difficult to sleep in a truck that is bouncing, turning, CB blasting, and while listening to the favorite talk show host of your codriver, on and on and on. During my training I got about 6 hours of sleep each day and that was only if I took those little blue sleeping pills sold at walmart over the counter. I'd never done ANY drugs in my 38 years of breathing until I started team driving. I took legal sleeping pills to get 6 hours of sleep a day and I took legal red pills (tylenol tension headache) to stay awake while driving at night.

It does not matter who I drove for. ALL companies haul the same freight. ALL companies are at the mercy of shippers and recievers. Shippers are making trucking companies do blind bidding now. Shippers are refusing to pay fuel surcharge. Brokers are refusing to pass fuel surcharge on to trucking companies. OTR is not a cash cow. You'd be lite years better off financially to get a nursing degree. If you can't afford for trucking to be a hobby, and especially if you have kids and a wife, you need to stay out of trucking. If you are single and have never quit anything just because it turned out to be a lie, then go try trucking and come back in three months and tell me how it went.

BRI

 

uh, you're welcome