So Many Questions That'll Determine My Future!!

I'd say, get a regular job at least for as long as it takes for your youngest child to start school full time. Leaving your wife with a 1 1/2 year old AND newborn to take care of on her own is over whelming and asinine. If she is as young as you (or really, regardless of age) that is an extremely crappy situation you're putting your wife in.
Even if you have family in the area to help out, they can't be there all the time.

I know your intentions are good, and you wanna do your best to support your family....but your "best" definitely does not include leaving them for a week, or weeks at a time.
Once your schooling is over, you will be going with a trainer for 6 to 8 weeks, and there is no guarantee you will even get home during that time....can you imagine the stress on both you and your wife's ends?

Do yourself, your wife, and your children a big favor...and put your dreams of trucking off for atleast 5 years. Once the kids are in school, atleast your wife will get a break from the kids during the day.

Trucking, and everything you picture about the industry will ALL be there in another 5 years...and MAYBE you will even re-think the whole thing throughout the 5 years, and come to your senses, and decide you'd rather be with your family than on the road.

 

If trucking is what you want, then do it. Get all the endorsements.
Probably majority of us did just fine in trucking and having a wife and children at the same time.
Job satisfaction keeps you healthy and living a long life providing you don't have bad habits such as smoking and living on junk food.
This is one of the few jobs a high school grad or even dropout, can make good money such as $60K - $100K per year with a full benefits package.
The first job may not be the one you stick with, but with all the endorsements that can work for you, your family will have a very good standard of living.
Maybe even snag a good job right out of CDL school with Old Dominion or one of the tanker outfits that hires new CDL grads such as Tidewater Transit and a few others.
Now, get busy!

 

That's not a fair statement. A dad that leaves their children to provide for them financially is not the same. My husband got into trucking because even working 40 hrs at a local factory, with ot, he was not even making 20k a year. And my job did not pay much more. There were many times that i had to choose between buying groceries or paying bills, i knew how long i could wait to pay a bill before receiving a shutoff notice.

He knew it was not a magical solution to our money problems and he would most likely have to pay his dues otr before having the experience required for the local jobs available in our area. But, he would at least have a skill when he was through. He talks to his kids every night amd when he is home, spends every waking moment with them and i remind them constantly that daddy did not leave us, he is working to take care of us and give us a better life.

 

Well, I'm glad Velli got my point. I'm not saying give up on a trucking dream...I am saying don't burden a wife with such a hand full. I GUARANTEE taking care of two infants by ones self is MUCH harder and more stressful than anything Velli will endure on the road.
Chinatown should be a recruiter, because he CAN give some decent advise and information... but he has a one track mind, and that seems to be "screw everything else, and lets all go trucking". There is much more to think about than just that.