What's your life like as an OTR trucker?

It sucks! Well, some like it, but I hate it.
Coast to coast & border to border for me.
Trucking is a great career or I wouldn't have chosen it.
My daughter is a nurse & likes it, but it's not for me at all. Give me the open road and crossing state lines and sleeping in a different state or city every day.

 

I'm 21, I got my CD at 19. I worked for a small company for a year. Now I'm doing line haul for FedEx, about the same as ups would be. Ups you can make up to about $80-85k FedEx about $50-55k. Ups is very strict where FedEx doesn't really care what you do.

Line haul is almost no thinking, easy highway driving mostly, and no backing into docks. The waiting you do is waiting for the other driver to meet you at usually a truck stop.

When you first start for either company you will be put on the extra board though.

 

My God, man! You're 16 years old! SIXTEEN!

Quit flip flopping on what you want to do for the rest of your life. Hopefully, you'll have a lifetime to do just that.

Go chase girls, hang with your friends and have some fun while you still have nothing to lose. Seriously.

 

So you want to be an OTR trucker?
And you want good money?
And you want time with your family or friends or loved ones?

Good luck with all that.
OTR is a pretty solitary lifestyle, and it doesn't pay all that well.

It works for me because I am a hermit at heart. Also, I can visit family in different parts of the country every couple months for a visit.
But if you are going in to it for the money - don't.
If you want to live a life other than moving stuff around the country - don't.
If you want a real social life and hope to find someone decent to love and marry, and perhaps to have children with - don't.

 

Well here is the thing Luccid, every statistic shows that on average college grads do better in just about every economic area. Economy down? College grads have lower unemployment rates. Lifetime earning? College grads have much higher averages.

These are just averages. You have to decide for yourself. Personally I hope and pray all three of mine go to college.

 

You really need to get a job, a drivers license and a car, and move out to be on your own.

But trucking is NOT what you need. That would only isolate you even more from life.

 

Sweatshop on wheels. If you can do something else, do it