Why did you decide to become a trucker ?

Cause quite frankly, there simply isn't very many career choices that pay any better. At least not without 8 years of schooling.

 

I realized I was addicted to eating food and sleeping indoors. In trucking you can go from no CDL to full-time job in 3-4 weeks. Once employed you have a place to sleep & an income.

 

Lack of work where I'm from and had a child that's why I'm trucking

 

I wanted to make $100K/yr, without college or prison. Getting there.

 

I am a 3rd generation truck driver and driving a truck was all I wanted to do from the time I was knee high to a grass hopper. I do wish I would of considered other careers, now, but I had tunnel vision and am basically stuck in this career after 29 years.

 

Father was a fifty year airline Captain so figured "driving" was in the blood. "Go easy on the throttles and yoke (the equipment) and give the cargo (in his case 'passengers') a good ride". First learned to handle a Boeing 707 when I was only 12.

After learning to drive after college with two local O/O 's in the late 70's have now had 40 years of on/off driving experience with no tickets or accidents but do not consider it a "career" . . . it's a job to do that fills in blanks when not doing something else.

 

Too stupid to do anything else.

 

27+ yrs in the construction industry from pushing a shovel to running equipment..loved it but I was hit with the 08 slump took a year & half off realized the slump was still active and as an outdoor kinda gal finding what I liked for work was limited so got my CDL & scared to death of OTR & being in a trainers truck 24/7 for weeks I chose oilfield great money $3000 a week bring home but high living cost North Dakota moved to Texas oilfield wages were half that & now even less soooo I'm going to go OTR *squeeeelll* now i'm excited about it...I'm to chicken to be an O/O so I'm content being company!!! I just love driving

 

well, lesee.......i coulda been a 7-11 robber, i coulda been a male stripper, i coulda been a martial arts instructor, i coulda been a dog walker, i coulda been a slumloard, i coulda been a pimp, i coulda been a used car saleman, i coulda been a librarian, i coulda been an unemployed college graduate

but then, i'd have no place like here!

 

Let's just say I fell in love with it, but now I've had enough of it. Govt has ruined this Industry.