Writing a book for people considering becoming truck drivers

Bad. Everyone quit reading after your opening sentence. Most here think that OTR is for the losers in society. And a flatbedder too? Flatbedders are gluttons for punishment. See they want a job where they are not forced to drive in in climate weather, or beyond a few hours a day between 9 and 5, and get paid a wage that they can live on REGARDLESS of how many miles they do not drive. In other words, they wouldn't want to hear what you have to say. You are the antichrist. IMO, that's not a bad thing.

You hear people say that trucking is a lifestyle...what does that mean? Well, the truck drivers that people see are those fat, effeminate guys walking around with a Bluetooth headset and sweatpants on, and so they think, "You mean, they expect me to gain 100 lbs, be limp wristed and walk around with a goofy looking pair of headphones on my head?" Worse thing is, these effeminate fat guys are always crying.

Someone posted a video of a Florida ScaleMaster. And in the video, this old time ScaleMaster talked about his job and what they, the DOT are trying to accomplish. It was an excellent video that actually put the DOT in good light.

You see drivers doing their video blogs all over the web, and honestly, I think they suck. You only see what the general public sees...yes, that effeminate Fatguy behind the wheel crying about the lack of respect. Yeah, crying always helps. They're people look as if the toughest thing they do each day is wipe their arse, and they're talking about a lifestyle? And they want respect? Too funny! Running down the road in a white semi, pulling a white van talking about a lifestyle.

"What the attraction with Peterbilt?"

Well, even kids can see the difference between a 379 and a Beancounter spec'd bottom of the line condo sleepered POS fleet truck. It's like a 60's muscle car com paired to a Prius. Don't care what you do to a Prius, it will NEVER be cool. Those crying fatguys will tell you that cool don't mean a thing, but then again, they do walk around in public with wifebeaters and sweatpants crying about their lot in life.

So if you really want to do something unique, don't do what's already been done by the limp wristed tearjerker fatguys, take a different approach. They show the CDL mills, the bottomfeeder slaughterhouse, the POS truck that blocks up the lanes.
Show the things you like. Show why you decided to go OTR flatbed. Show a day in the life of an OTR flatbedder. Ever noticed that the vast majority of flatbedders Actually prefer OTR?

"You mean they are doing exactly what they want to do?"

Now that's Life with Style.

I would like to see something on flatbeds. Start to finish. From CDL school to owner OP. Doesn't have to be flatbed. Tanker yankers, cow pimps, car haulers...they're doing what they want to do.

 

Why buy a book when you can come to TTR and read everything you need to know...for free.

 

Wow...overweight, effeminate? I am sensitive and I have feelings. As soon as I stop crying I will hit you with a bag of KRISPY Kremes!

To the OP...go for it. Writing is therapeutic for me...I feel much better after writing that line above.

 

A well-written "book" as you describe should be required reading as a pre-requisite for acceptance into trucking school. The problem today is, people jump in then figure out it's not like they imagined, have a WTF moment, then try and read up on how to "fix it".

But it needs to come from a blend of various perspectives for much of it, but other parts of the book are mostly facts of the job (lifestyle?) ... see here is where you run into problems, half of truckers think trucking is a job, the other half think it's a lifestyle ... big difference there in how one approaches trucking and the hurdles.

On a cursory review of you chapters, I see one glaring omission ...

"Reasons NOT to consider this career"

Give them as many pros as you can think of, and give them as many cons as you can think of, let the reader decide what's important to them or what will or will not be an issue for them, and they can proceed accordingly, with at least a little truthful inside information that NO recruiter is going to share with them, and the ability to know when a recruiter is blowing smoke up their butt.

 

Write a trucking for dummies book.

But I do think you should write the book if you feel inclined. So what if no one might read it. You would probably learn more just by putting it together.

 

Lots of little words and big pictures might help me explain to myself how I got here.

 

You can quote any of my thoughts and stories for a paltry sum of one million space bucks.

 

I saw an ad that said, "drive the big trucks, make the big bucks." and that was all I needed, lol.

 

Good Luck


said with a ton of sarcasm.............