So Id chosen my trucking school, ma paid for it, and I showed up for the first day. Welcome. Smiling faces, hand shakes, and piles and piles of paperwork on each desk. No party hats (they really should have party hats) but, oh well, what do they know?

The schooling began with nothing but classroom study for the first week or two. If you decide to attend driving school at a trucking company....let the propaganda begin! They wont waste any chance at promoting themselves, believe me. They will also make you feel like it is your privilege to be working for them. Get used to that. Now heres your first piece of raw truth about the industry... companies are completely and totally desperate for truck drivers. I mean DESPERATE!

Were you ever offered a $2000 bonus just to come work for a company? Did you ever have a company offer to pay for all of your schooling if you will come work for them when you graduate? Why would someone offer such an insane amount of money just for you to come work there? They dont even know you! They have no idea what youre capable of! You dont even have any experience! They dont really care.

These bonuses are common at the larger trucking companies. Sure they HOPE youre gonna be an outstanding truck driver, but more than anything they just desperately need your butt in one of their trucks. Period.

Well, turnover is a huge problem in the trucking industry. A driver with a clean record, even a driver straight out of school, can land literally hundreds or even thousands of jobs at any time and everybody knows that, drivers and companies alike.

So in order to put themselves in a position of authority, which is a falsity, they may try to keep you on pins and needles by implying that your job is always on the line. One false move and you could be fired. This is one of the HUGE mistakes that companies make.... its simply not true.

All that they really accomplish by trying to scare you is filling you with a lack of trust and loyalty towards them. Most large companies are full of drivers that have hit bridges, rolled trucks, been late for deliveries, and on and on. Does this mean you wont ever get fired? Certainly not. Ive been fired a few times by idiots Ive never met on some committee making decisions based on little or no real facts or understanding about me or my situation.

But getting another job, as long as youve never had a DUI or killed somebody, is really easy...so dont let them snow you into thinking your career is always on the line... its a bluff. Lose your job and you can have ten new ones tomorrow. Simple as that