Wondering if I should pursue trucking

Confidence vs. intimidation can be the difference between being scared and reckless.

I have never trained or driven with a female driver.
One trainer, male, and then solo for the rest of the time.

Aggression is bad no matter the drivers' gender, but I see it all the time.
It is mostly with males.
They seem to have something to prove, whatever that may be.

Perhaps that is why I get along better with female DM's in general.
I have nothing to prove, and they don't push me to do it.
Although, it has been 50/50 with the gender of my DM's. Only a couple of the males have been on my, whatever, about things.

But most of the drivers I see tailgating and riding someones bumper trying to get that extra 1 mph, speeding through constructions zones, cutting people off for a slight advantage or even for no reason - are males.

 

Probably both.
Weak minds in either case.

Unable or unwilling to do things safely because of outside pressure.

 

Statistics are, for driving females are safer. In trucks and cars.
At receivers however, women wait longer at detention. Presumably because males are pushier with the clerks/unloaders so they get moved along quicker.

 

I'm currently working in the reefer LTL world. I deliver multiple drops of high end food at grocery warehouses, restaurants and small specialties food stores. I do 1 pick 1 drop loads to get me from the end of the LTL run to the place I want/need to be next, whether it's home, the LTL origination, or whatever.
If it's under the LTL company I get VERY quick unload. If one of those deliveries goes bad I do get detention pay, it comes from my LTL company but I believe they get it from the slacker delivery place.
If it's a 1 pick 1 drop, let's say I picked up chicken in south Carolina and brought it to Delaware to be closer to my next load, and the chicken turns into a fiasco, I'm not going to see any detention. It'll be in the contract somewhere that the broker doesn't pay detention. Sometimes my own company throws me money even though they won't be compensated, just because they are a good company and I'm a good employee.
(Because I am paid a percentage of the load I have copies of the rate contract and I can read it to see the price paid for the load and the contract details. )