Should I become a trucker?

Sounds like you’re at the DMV or something ?

mid you already have a few years built up towards your retirement pension , I’d stay with the govt and just transfer to a job with little or no public interface .

the guy driving the snowplow or the guy running the excavator for the highway dept

 

Few if any trucking jobs require ONLY 40 hours of work per week. 50-70 hours per week is very common. I retired from trucking because I got tired of everyone outside of the truck treating me like a diseased stray dog and lying to/about me so they could make their life easier. You can live anywhere but you cannot work anywhere. if you don't live where you work then you have to find the time to commute from where you live to where you work. Freight is not evenly distributed across the country. The freight is made an delivered mostly where the population lives.

Tanker work is probably the easiest type of trucking, if you have experience, and the customers treat you much better than dry van, reefer. I don't know about flatbed customers.

It would be foolish to buy a truck and "be your own boss" as an owner-operator until you have worked as aW-2 company driver for 1-3 years. About 80-90% of first year truck drivers leave the industry before they get 12 months experience. Just learning the job, as a company driver, is a full-time task. The difference between someone paying the full expenses of operating a commercial truck/trailer and being successful or going out of business is a lot of small decisions. You can't just read a book about playing poker and become successful. You need to do the job as driver, learn the smart tactics to make a profit, and THEN become and owner-operator.

 

Most of those crazy and difficult people drive cars on the highway, and you will be surrounded by them daily.

Just sayin'........

 

You won't find any of the things you are looking for in trucking.

 

Don't become an owner-operator until you have a few years experience being a company driver. With no experience just the insurance cost is enough to buy a new house.

 

Lawyers always jump on the CDL driver because they're seen as having deep pockets full of cash. Don't have to worry about that as a company driver.
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Move to South Dakota, Texas, Nevada for rural area living away from the crowds and also those 3 states don't have state income taxes.

 

Unless he works the dock at YRC in Dorrance PA.

 

40 hour work week?? Good luck