Trucking is what I always wanted to do and I waited until I was 40 to do it, the only thing I'd do differently is to start sooner.

Do I regret being a trucker?

Today -- no way -- it's great!

Tomorrow -- um...ask me tomorrow. :lol:

yah i regret it. a little over 2 years in. too stressful, also have to deal with people makes my life go slower.

Re: do you guys regret choosing trucking as a profession?
 

I have to totally agree here. I went to grad school in 2000, should have gone to truck school instead. i would probably be debt free by now :P

I don't regret leaving my last job. When you are the mop boy at the peep show there really isn't any room for advancement.

I should have done it 20 years ago, granted at that time, I probably would have screwed it up... lol :lol:

I enjoy driving truck -it really is a great job. But the industry blows and I only stay in it because I've got a good-paying local gig, home everynight, and off every weekend/holiday. If not for that, I'd be a goner. No way will I live out of a 8X10 cell again and have to roll the dice to determine hometime. Nor will I ever work for .cpm...mileage pay sucks.

My answer on this would be a bit mixed. If I hadn't been in such a hurry to hit the ground running, I might have gone to university instead, and found myself a better paying profession. As for driving, I don't regret it overall. I've had regrets about people I've worked for, and perhaps being a bit hasty to come off the road, and drive locally, instead. And I'm probably still going to piss and moan, because I'm a truck driver, and that's what we do, but I don't cry myself to sleep because I ended up being a truck driver instead of a pencil pusher, American Idol finalist, Chippendale's dancer, or what have you.

I usually tell people I hate it to keep the the competition down and pay up.

I was one of those people who chose this profession with my eyes wide shut. I even worked for the company that I drive for currently *before* driving school & I still had my eyes wide shut! :shock: The drivers just weren't very forthcoming with the information & I didn't have the mental wherewithal to even consider that there might be a forum such as this one with viable information for someone considering taking the leap...

With that said, I have a loooonnnnggg list of cons when it comes to what I do. I think about jumping ship more days than not out of the week. However, the majority of those reasons have nothing to do with the actual driving... I have to add that even though I pushed my resume, interviewed, the whole nine yards and thought I was ready to leave... when offered some other employment I thought twice about whether or not I was ready to give it up... and then turned those offers down...

I will say this - there are lessons I've learned about myself, people in general, business practices, this country (that there is one outside the city in which I "live"), *what it really means to work for ones pay*, etc. that I am not sure I would have learned had I not entered this profession. I will say that it is a lesson I will benefit from for the rest of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for what I might've become had I not done it...

Perhaps one day I'll move on from driving, but I'm not sure I'll ever leave transportation.