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Message:: [QUOTE="DonRobbie, post: 4571135, member: 2233"]It's a scary jump. Look carefully. Do your research on the carrier and the school and try to find what fits what you want. But at the end of the day it's still a jump. In no particular order, what I wish I'd known.-You won't make much money for the first 2-3 months. Training pay isn't great and you're probably going to be picking up the odds and ends you need for the truck the first few weeks along with learning the work and adapting to the hours. If you have folks who depend on you plan accordingly. The money is there but you generally aren't going to make it right out of the gate.-The quickest way to wind up on the Greyhound home with a bill for your CDL training in hand is to rush and make a bad decision. Part of why you aren't going to make as much at first is it will take you longer to do stuff.  Whether it's trip planning, pre-trips, backing, whatever. Folks will whine that you're holding them up. Folks will try to rush you. None of them are going to pay the bill if you make a mistake.  It takes a lot less time to do a proper trip plan and a pretrip than to back away from the 12' bridge, wait for the road service truck, or have a friendly chat with the nice law enforcement officer.Take your time. Think. Check twice. Get out and look.[/QUOTE]