Truck driving: Is it right for you as a career move 15 Articles

by R.L Hanlon

I have been in the transport industry for many years. My parents owned a courier company as I was growing up, and I now work in 24 hour towing company. As someone who witnesses many drivers come and go, here are a few tr...read more

by Frank Butry

The ad in the newspaper or recruiter magazine always starts with " up to 40,000 a year", we will do the math later on. Lets start at the beginning, where there is you, a ton of bills and your at the end of your rope. So, w...read more

by James Boyd

Truck driving schools are necessary, I guess. It is very difficult to get a Class A CDL without attending a school. I was grandfathered in when the CDL was created about 1992, so I never had the kind of formal instruction ...read more

by Chris Condon

Truck driving is fun. People get into this career and stay because they enjoy driving. As with any other job it comes with its challenges, and disadvantages. As did I, you must weigh the benefits and challenges very car...read more

by Russell Roper

Riding high and looking down on the rest of the population. The roar of the powerful engine as it sends exhaust bellowing from the freshly polished twin stacks. Chrome glistening in the sun, as images of other vehicles dan...read more

by Amanda Reimer

Driving truck is a hard job to have. Take it from someone who knows. My dad is a truck driver. There are many different types of truck drivers. There are short haulers that usually work for some place like a furniture s...read more

by Dizzy Sue

Truck driving: Is it right for you as a career move. This is a very interesting question as being a truck driver is very different from other occupations in your every day jobs. What do I mean by different well speaking fr...read more

by Willow Kincaid

Driving, good and bad. To drive or not to drive; that is the question. The ads may say forty thousand a year but that may not be what you get. With the past couple of driving jobs my dad had he was averaging about two...read more

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by Eric Lorence

Once finishing truck driving school, your instructor hands you a certificate and sends you on your way. But your not a truck driver yet. Thats right, you have your diploma, CDL, and maybe even a hat with the school logo. B...read more

by Smudge

If this question were to be asked 15-20 years ago, then I would have said yes, its an excellent career move, simply because professional drivers were identified as having a tangible skill, such as plumbers, electricians an...read more

by Dean Potter

I have been driving truck for about ten years. I drove two of those years on a dedicated freight run which took me 4000 miles from home, every week. It wasn't a bad job. It wasn't the greatest either. Every Monday I would ...read more

by Jason Hilton

This is a loaded question if you ask me. There are hundreds of reasons that can cause new generation drivers to fail at trucking. However, I will only give what I think is the number one reason so you don't have to read fo...read more

by Jonathon Will

Is truck driving the right career move? When I earned my class A CDL and signed on with Swift transportation co. I was sure that I was doing the right thing. They started me off at 26 cents per mile, which isn't bad if you...read more

by Denny Jackson

Snow and ice, irate drivers, shippers and receivers, mechanical breakdowns.... the list goes on and on. The hassles that truck drivers have to deal with on a daily basis is no picnic, but the rewards can be immensely satis...read more

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by Duggen Firegem

Is truck driving the right career move for me. I would have to say no. Has I have been retired for a little over two months now. I would have worked a bit longer if they had a plant to where I moved. It would not have been...read more