What you'll learn
- Find out if you are compatible for the trucking lifestyle
- Learn what to expect as a new truck driver
- Learn how to choose the right options for getting a CDL based on your situation
- Learn how to make the most money in trucking
- Learn how the pitfalls of relationships and how to avoid them as a driver
- Learn how to be a driver who the best companies want to hire
Requirements
- You will need pen and paper for taking notes
- You will need quite room with internet access
Description
Becoming a trucker means a change of lifestyle. This course covers what a person should know about truck driving jobs in order to make an informed decision about whether trucking suitable for you. Many people go to school to get their CDL and get a truck driving job only to find out that they hate it because it is not what they expected. Others pay $1,000's to get a CDL and can't get a job. This course is for anyone thinking of becoming a trucker or researching trucking life. To keep you from wasting your money and help you to make trucking more than a job if you decide you are compatible for the lifestyle.
This course will help you
- determine if you are compatible for a trucking job.
- make a good choice about the right type of trucking job
- make a good choice about the right type of trucking company
- How to be a good trucker that better companies want to hire
- How to keep more of the money that you make
- How to have a successful relationship as a driver
You should take this course because the information comes from decades of experience from not just me but from 100's of drivers who contribute to my website answering questions and giving advice to other drivers and people who want to become drivers.
If you pay attention, you will avoid pain and pitfalls that have caused other truckers stress and disappointment from money troubles, destroyed relationship, poor health and other problems from poor decisions.
Who this course is for:
- People interested in becoming a trucker
- People unsure if they are suitable to become a trucker
- People who want to know what it is like being a trucker
- Spouse, wife, family member of a truck driver who wants to know what the driver is going through
Course content
- Preview13:13
- 04:07Can Your Spouse Handle You Being a Trucker?
- 2 questionsWhat Qualities Should a Trucker Have
Instructor
I drove for 13 years and loved it. I was company driver for half of that time and owner operator for the rest. Learned a lot of lessons. Found out there was a lot of unhappy drivers. Meanwhile, I had won several driving awards. I interviewed many drivers and found out that the reason for their unhappiness was likely that they were incompatible for the trucking lifestyle or had made some terrible mistakes that affected their money, health, relationships or a combination of all three.
I sought out to address the issue. I wrote a few books, recorded a CD, DVD and eventually developed a website to share what I learned about life as a trucker. The idea was to help people determine if they were compatible for trucking prior to spending the money for getting their CDL and then educating them on how to make trucking a successful career.
As part of my mission to make this world and the trucking industry a better place I spent most of my downtime on the road either writing or studying personal development to work on becoming a better version of myself.
So now I am using the Udemy platform to live my passion for sharing the lessons that I have learned on the wonderful journey.