Would you give up this gig?

No way Jose - I used to have a job just like that Back in the 80's - kick myself for not keeping it.

 

I think MACK was asking you, OP, if you owned the home outright. All paid off. Since you still have mortgage payments, that's not the case.

Your job sounds good, with great pay for the amount of hours worked. but North Carolina is cheap to live in. I know COL is high in Colorado. So I guess it's all relative.

Would you be able to get this job back if you tried trucking for a bit and didn't like it?

At the end of the day, there are lots of factors. I would say do what makes you happy. You only live once. But be prepared to possibly leave your old life behind and having to start new, if trucking doesn't work out.

PS - I only team drove a couple times during training for 5 hours max a night I slept while the truck was moving. It's brutal. Absolutely brutal. You sleep. But you don't really sleep sleep, if you know what I mean.

Just a heads up.

 

My .02 no way. I was driving otr for 34 years just got a job a lot like yours. No way with paid holidays & weekends off.

 

No. The BS will destroy you out here. You do not understand how peaceful your world is now even if it is boring.

Me? I am a trucker, I'll die one. I could not do your job for even a week. You follow me?

 

That's a chance you have to take if you want trucking.
Sage is a good school and in fact Dairy Farmers of America in Greely, when they hire new cdl school grads, only hires from Sage.

 

One thing not mentioned, your age, and is it a pension job? If it is, stay. But U do What U want.
Sounds great - if you make it great in your mind. Or Bad, if you make it bad in your mind.
I would stick it out, and do something that interests you as a money-making sideline?
You got a talent, proficiency, or skill you could exploit?

Another thing not mentioned, does your wife's job bother her, or is she ok with it?
She is part of the answer here; ask her opinion, too,

Politics? Your answer: I'm in a "no drama" zone.
Step off.
That gets rid of that problem.

 

Politics.

The great destroyer of Crews.

As a crew boss among Temp CDL drivers of all ages in the past I tell them which of you know auto and which of you know manual and finally which if you are the oldest here?

I take the autos teach them manual, and vice versa and give the old iron to the oldest. Pleased as punch.

Then tell them, enjoy the day but no politics here.

If anyone knows politics it will be me, but I try to be good about it. And in some ways Im sick of it myself.