Profile For Dave K.

Are there any opportunities for someone in trucking who is nearing the end of a 30+ year career teaching economics at the high school level who would be free in June, July and August to drive full-time (do trucking firms hire "substitute" drivers for covering vacations, illness, births of children and or deaths in a family?) and available beginning on Friday afternoon until Sunday evening. Our last child of 5 will graduate from high school next month and I have always had an interest in truck driving. (After 30+ years in the class room with today's youth, the solitude of the highway is increasingly of interest.) Just wondering if maybe some firms employ some drivers on a part-time, emergency or as needed basis? I did own and operate my own driver-training business for 16 year-olds so becoming a trainer at some point may be a niche of interest to both me and a trucking firm? Thanks for your insight and assistance.