What advice would you have for someone interested in truck driving?

I am considering buying my own rig and becoming a cross country truck driver. Any one with experience willing to share their thoughts on working for someone else or owning your own rig? Thanks.What advice would you have for someone interested in truck driving?
between fighting to replace you with trucks from Mexico and the on the job training then hired to work here in India, you have no positive outlook right now.





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I have 17 years driving big rigs. When I started in 1976 several old timers told me to make up my mind in the first year whether I wanted to drive the rest of my life or not. They told me it gets into your blood and there is no way to cure it. The road will always becon. I am here to say this is VERY TRUE. If you just want a job, then you may be able to walk away from it sometime in the future. I can't.





I will tell youmy story in brief. In 1999 I stopped to get fuel at the TA west of Indianapolis.I was going to be there just long enough to fuel up and hit the road again. I had just come off a four day weekend and was heading out for a four week tour (my choice). I fueled and paid for it and had a seizure. In minutes I would have been back on the road. Thankfully I wasn't because it took me about three hours to even remember where I was.





I can no longer drive the big rigs because I now have epilepsy which simply put is more than a couple seizures and likely to be a permanant condition. I take medication daily and have no of the condition but one cannot drive a comercial vehicle across state lines if the are on medication even if it fully controls the condition.





So the point is, as the Boy Scouts motto says, Be Prepared. The only other thing is DO NOT buy your own rig until you spend a few years in the industry and fully understand it. You could be stuck with something you can't pay for. Good luck. Lee

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