Comments By Monica M.

And, she has a new boyfriend now. She calls him Asphalt Cowboy. He is a flatbedder, too. She filmed one of their dates and took some ugly heat for it. Mean people suck.

Brett, You are a philosopher, man! The "sum total" (love that term!) of my experiences has included dropping bombs and walking away, burning bridges, ripping away security blankets and more of the like. Oh, the visuals! There have definitely been some mountain-top peaks and some valley lows. People like Allie and Brett keep my head straight and my perspective true. Thank you, philosophs in the rough. Keep it coming.

My favorite line: "Never let fear decide your fate."

Allie was featured on a commercial for Monster.

I don't know if any of you have discovered Allie Knight and her daily trucking videos on YouTube, but I have, and I can't get enough of her enthusiasm and down-home goodness. I was inspired to learning to drive before I found these and now I am more inspired than ever. She posts a daily video blog on YouTube as AllieKnight.com. Never would I have believed that I would sit and watch a 20-minute video of a rig going down the road!

Mail clerk in the U.S. Army (loved that little hard-top Jeep and trailer), then taught history in public high school for 20 years. Will soon join my husband in OTR as team drivers for Schneider. Looking forward to the companionship and open road. We can't afford the retiree "RV" lifestyle so this is the next best thing! We're too young for that, anyway! This is an interesting thread. I really enjoy hearing everyone's story.

It's funny how so many people in "normal" career fields decide they've had enough and decide to drive a big rig. I worked in IT and decided I'd rather light my head on fire than sit in on another conference call to India in my cubicle, so I became a trucker.

Dude, I taught like my hair was on fire for over 19 years! Still couldn't get the student's attention. Put out the fire and walked away.

Burnt-out teacher chiming in here, as well. I expect to find peace-of-mind on the road and some restoration of my abused soul! Won't ever return to the classroom as the teacher.

I'm finishing CDL school here in Florida next month. My husband (already OTR) and I want to move out of Florida to the mid-west and work as a company team. In the application process we were told that Schneider National requires us to have an established address in the state from which we will drive out, prior to being hired. We were hoping to get a permanent address after orientation and the first couple weeks of work - getting to know the lay of the land, so-to-speak. The recruiter cited DOT regulations to this effect. Is this true for all companies? (Schneider said it was.) Does anyone have any strategies for this dilemma?

Did Wayne and Dan pass yet? They started about a week after we did. Do you have Bill for a teacher?

GO RETIRED TEACHERS GO.

I'm going to night school so I haven't met them. Most of my training has been with Scott and Lanny. I hope retired teachers make good truckers! My husband is a driver for Armellini and we want to team drive for Schneider out of their Dallas location. Let me know how your training with them goes.