Re: Truck Driving

Posted by oliver fan on June 07, 2007 at 13:28:46 from (69.11.148.62):

In Reply to: Truck Driving posted by 53DC on June 07, 2007 at 11:00:57:

All of the answers you have recieved so far have been on the money.

I graduated from high school in June of 1960 and two weeks later I was driving trucks interstate. I drove local and long distance for 10 years, then I went to work for a teamster LTL carrier. I retired in 2003 with a very good pension. I have been in 49 states and parts of Canada. I was very lucky to not have been involved in any major accidents, but I have see my share of them.

Having said all that, I would tell you to RUN, NOT WALK away from anything that looks like a truck. As others have said, between the hours, D.O.T, Cops, Dispatchers, Scales, Cell phones, traffic, Haz-Mat requirements, lousey roads, bad customer dock help, and not being home sometimes when your family needs you. The good old days of truck driving is long gone.

If you can make a reasonably good living in another profession, I would tell you to not become a truck driver. MHO.

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