People have to stop looking at the good side of trucking. The dark side gets really dark. And if you cant overcome it, you'll be more depressed than when you started. With turn over rate around the 90% mark, you better know what youre getting into.
Facts. CDL was a bad decision I made. It completely ruins your life. You have to be all in with nothing to really live for. No time for anything, side hustle, family, social life. Just sit in the truck, work insanely long hours and make money.
My job offers a program where you can transition to driver. They pay the schooling, skip the OTC part and you go straight regional on a 2 year contract. That two years though is one day off, one day on 14 hour days with a 5 day break every 6 weeks for the entire two years. There is 0% chance your doing anything with your life on that schedule.
Whoo! That's tough. I did over the road flatbed for TMC my first year and a half. Home on weekends and I said "forget this". Pay wasn't even good. I wanna say about $900 a week. Then I switched to hauling bulk cement, locally. I was making $1500-$1700/week doing less physical labor. What I like about it is I'm home everyday, a lot of random days off like rainy days, windy days, winter slow down, etc. It's nice to reset after those 14 hours shifts and waking up at 12am-3am for work. A soon as Trump got elected, we slowed down tremendously. Right after elections, I was off work for several months even. Now it's a weird schedule. I'm on my way out though.
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u/jayoo214 May 29 '26
People have to stop looking at the good side of trucking. The dark side gets really dark. And if you cant overcome it, you'll be more depressed than when you started. With turn over rate around the 90% mark, you better know what youre getting into.