The amount of stuff you have to buy in this career

Remember to buy yourself a quality set of golf clubs, figure about $1500 for a decent set. Then when you're driving by a golfcourse remember to pull hard on your air horn on the guy's backswing to let them know you're a fellow golfer too.

 

DO NOT ROUTE WITH 4 WHEELER GPS!!!!!! Save Pilot, Love's, etc points to offset cost. Maps are worthless now. Cars are allowed to go under 10 foot bridges. So are you if you want a convertible with no top. 5 inch Rand is under $300. Mine paid for itself the first time I was in Chicago.

 

I get fired every 6 months or so, so I like to keep things to a minimum. Of course now that I have run out of people to hire me and have my own authority, I am getting it all.

 

I was a carpenter and painter for 30 years before becoming a truck driver. I have SO many tools. But I started out with a toolbelt, hammer, cats paw, and a tape measure... I bought others as I needed them. Now I have thousands of dollars in tools....
Point is, if your serious about this career, you will accumulate whatever tools you need or want as you need them and as you realize what works for you, what kind of trucking you do, and what makes your job easier.
You don't need ALL the tools yet...
Gloves, flashlight, tire thumper, RM trucker atlas to start... Then add as you need and want...

 

Couple of $4.95 walmart totes for clothes/canned/boxed stuff, lotsa water, if yer in a Cascadia those rolling coolers w/a handle fit nicely in the reefer space. Laptop, dumb (smart)phone, atlas, tv, microwave and I was happy. Oh, 2 milk crates fit great @ end. Of the bunk.

 

Get the GPS first. That will actually help you earn money to buy the other stuff.

I survived for a month without a cooler or fridge. I have fridge now but if it died it wouldn't bother me to without.

No CB in my truck. I hear enough garbage standing around waiting for a shower. I don't want to listen to it when I am in my truck.

Leaf blower works ok on light dry dirt. You will still need a broom for wet muck and heavy chunks of wood so just stick with a broom.

We are not allowed to work on our trucks so 90% of the tools I have will never be used for truck related work. I still bought them because I wanted to feel prepared.