To All The Naysayers

OP, so you'd rather we all just blow sunshine up your skirt? Look, all the time we get newbies and wannabes coming here with ridiculously pie in the sky ideas. Guess what, we were once like that too. But when reality smacks you upside the head it hurts. So maybe the cussin' can bring a little real life into the discussion and ease the sting just a bit.

Trucking is a good career, as long as you don't expect too much of it.

 

I was only in it 4 months before they saw the brains in me (or lack there-of) to become a dispatcher. So, away from the seat out on the road, and into the seat at the desk. I really don't mind dispatching....I am enjoying it, for now, 2 months into it.

But I do miss driving and I am glad I get to every Saturday. Something in me just wants to go. I have been scouting around for business opportunities & possibilities of buying my own truck and putting it to work down the road. We will see.

Good luck to ya, and hang in there, there will be moments you wonder what the heck you are doing, but its normal.

 

I don't mind it at all being single with nothing keeping me home but I can see how this would be really difficult with kids. Significant others are more easily replaced.

 

OTOH, I am absolutely convinced that some of the long term marriages that truckers are in, have survived solely because they ARE NOT at home and "underfoot" all the time! Kind of sad, when you stop to think about it.

 

So Stephan,

How many companies, and how many accidents has it been.????

It might be nice to hear Both sides of your storey !!!!!