Profile For Chase B.

Thanks for your reply! I'd love to do long hauling some day, it's just something I can't do at this moment. I've combed this page up and down including reading Brett's book on it all. I'm mainly worried about wasting my money getting the class A now, and in a year or so when I could run long hauls, finding a company not willing to hire me because I got my class A but haven't actually worked on a truck since. I was reading that trucker jobs are more numerous than drivers and was actually wondering if it was possible to turn it into a summer job. If I could do that, I'd love to go ahead and get the A. I'm basically trying to avoid shooting myself in the foot.

Howdy all. I'm currently enrolled in college, will be turning 21 in a few months, and have held a class B CDL with full time driving experience for 2 years. I've already got my hazardous cargo endorsement as well. I've been looking into trucking because I enjoy what I do so much already (driving buses for the university) and trucking seems to be the only job that will be anything similar. However, trucking school is something that I will obviously have to save up for and I need advice on when and which one to go into. I've noticed people saying they get hired right out of school and do basically a year or a few months of training. If I go to school it'd be some summer and I wouldn't be able to do anything that would take me completely away from school (I do some online but most in class) after it. Would it hurt me to attend a school to get the Class A and not get a job immediately? I could do local jobs obviously as in nomal day job. I could even do nights technically, theres just no way i can stay gone a week at a time, which is what I would be interested in later. On the company explanation page on this site I was reading that most want to hire 'new graduates' as in 30ish days of graduating. I'm asking all this because I'm in college to be a teacher and I'm seeing trucking as the same or possibly even better pay. Plus I don't know how much I like teaching but I know I certainly enjoy driving. Any advice or help anyone can offer would be much appreciated.