Most, if not all, trucking companies have policies against keeping firearms in the truck and they will fire a driver on the spot if they find out he has one.
In addition to that, there are hundreds of laws governing the transportation and ownership of firearms and it would be impossible for you to keep abreast and in compliance with them all as an OTR driver.
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I also do a lot of target shooting and would like to bring a rifle and some reloading equipment with me so I can make some ammo and shoot in my down time.
Leave your guns at home. You will not have that much downtime anyway, and what time you do have will be spent catching up on rest, keeping the truck clean, etc. Also if you do have the time to go shooting you could probably find a local shooting club/range that would rent you a pistol or rifle.
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I'd feel a lot safer if I could bring my pistol with me, and maybe my SHTF .223 just in case I might be in Oakland or Compton at the wrong time. Anyone remember the LA riots and that trucker being pulled from his cab and beaten severely? I don't see how a dead guy could pull me out of my cab.
The odds of you or anyone else being attacked are very slim. At any given time there are something like 3 million truck drivers on the road, so your odds of coming home safe are pretty good unless you go looking for trouble. A little common sense goes a lot farther to keeping you safe than any gun ever will. It has also been my experience that those who go around armed are more likely to go marching into situations they would/should avoid out of a false sense of invulnerablility.
Beyond that, if you are truly so afraid that you can not leave home without your guns then trucking is not for you.