Nobody tells you you'd better have a monetary cushion set aside before you sign up for something like this. For about 2 months you're going to be stuck in a truck with little access to anything. you will have many weeks at a time with no/ little pay. You should have enough money set aside to cover at least 6 months worth of bills plus no less than $2,000.00 for repairs if you go the Owner/ operator route. The other option is to go the company driver route, but be prepared to be treated like dirt if you do that. Bottom line, if you're looking to get into the trucking industry you'd better do your homework. Many transportation companies and trucking schools attempt to get outsiders excited about how there is a shortage of truck drivers in this country with their advertisements. However, this isn't true at all. Try parking a tractor trailer at any truck stop that shows up on GPS after 7:00pm. Mnay companies take advantage of newbies until theyve gotten all they can get out of them, then they just throw you away and move on to the next sucker. The federal government has made absolutely sure that trucking is no longer a way for someone without college to make good money. Statistically speaking, as a new driver you will be much more likely to fail AND have a significant portion of your life ruined than you would be to be successful. It is a long, hard road of paying dues driving trucks before you will have any kind of disposable money in your budget. Anyone who tells you otherwise is only trying to blow their own horn about how good they are. This is 50 % of what comes out of most truckers mouths. Take anything they say with a grain of salt. This particular company takes jobs nobody else wants for next to nothing thus lowering the overall rates ALL truckers can make, and they can lose money on driving freight because the students move the freight for almost free AND they make more money on crooked truck sales than most other crooked truck dealers because of their extremely high volume (product of high turnover). Many of the companies out there with thousands of trucks on the road operate the same way. It's a scam and you're about to be the victim. Their philosophy is as follows: throw enough mud at a wall, and some will stick.
