Should I become a trucker?

If you want a 40-hour week job--you really need to simply find another govnmt job.

Those same nuts/whackjobs you're sick of.....are simply sharing the nearby pavement with you...if you get into trucking.

Moreso of late....some of those nutjobs also have a CDL, as well....

-- Lual

 

A little over 40 hours a week probably worth it to be in the solitude of the truck and on the road.

 

Where in Pa??

 

Government job is about the only place you're going to find a 40 hour week, if that's a deal breaker you better just stick with what you got.

 

My company has 3 types of driver jobs. 7 days a week and you do 34 hour reset on the road every week. 5 days a week and your home 2 days a week. They even have 3 days driving and 4 days off. The next week you work 4 days and have 3 days off. You share the truck with another driver. So for the 3 on 4 off deal, the company truck is running 7 days a week two drive share the truck and get more home time.

I do the 5 days on 2 off every week and work 50-60 hours a week. I take the truck home every week. They just find a load delivery near my house. Once empty I drive truck home. I would say most drivers work 11-14 hours a day. We can drive 11 hours per day and work 14 hours a day.

 

Are you throwing away a government pension..how much longer do you have? If so wait and get that pension then try trucking..I almost quit a few times but stuck it out and got my pension...looking back I am glad I did.. It will enable you to come and go from trucking if you need to, that's what I do. As far as what you are going to enjoy more, you will like trucking a lot more after a govt job. Yes trucking has it's frustrations but not near as bad as dealing with the backstabbing dickheads in govt work

 

To answer your question, Yes, become a trucker!

 

Hopefully he doesn’t take the attitude the other guy did that asked this question.

 

40 hour job and less dealing with public and is considering being a truck driver. Never laughed this hard in my life.

 

Become a trucker if you can answer yes to most of these questions.

1. Can you sit for 10 hours a day every day?
2. Can you be alone for great lengths of time?
3. Hate your family or have no desire to make one?