Trucking Jobs And Career Coaching

Trucking jobs are challenging but becoming a trucker can be financially rewarding and life changing.

Life as a trucker can affect the entire family so find out if you AND your family are compatible for the trucking lifestyle!

You'll find pages and pages of trucking job information and trucking videos to help decide if trucking is for you.

And also you'll learn...

The easy way to get your Class A CDLs
The best way to get your Class A CDLs
How to choose the right trucking companies
The types of trucking jobs available
Questions to ask recruiters
How to make the most money
Trucking life hacks
How to decide if you should be an owner operator
How to become an owner operator
How to remain in good health
How to date as a trucker
Why to NOT date as a trucker
How to make trucking a successful career

If you got questions, relax. You're in the right place. We've got answers about life as a trucker and more.

Enjoy the trucking videos and trucking articles about trucking and ask questions about trucking life for trucker answers.

Trucker (me) excited to give you the short cut to successful trucking! The blueprint if you will.

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Realities of Trucking
Choosing a Trucking Company
Types of Trucking Jobs
Dating and Relationship Advice
Better Health in Trucking
Tips for New Drivers
How much money do truckers make
Realities of Trucking (To determine if you're compatible)
Ask The Trucker
Options for Getting Your CDL

Trucking is Awesome Because of the Opportunities it Offers

Advantages of Life as a Trucker

Other than hitching a ride with a driver, what you are doing right now, researching trucking life on the web is the best way to experience life as a trucker. I commend you for being so smart!

Here you will find videos, audios and text with answers from and interviews with experienced truckers about the good, the bad and the ugly of trucking jobs, trucking companies and the trucking industry.

Browse around the site as I take you with me through pictures and stories for a journey of life as a trucker, while revealing some of the things I have learned from driving professionally 13 plus years and over a million miles. The good, the bad, and the ugly!

Sit back and enjoy the ride!

Life as a Trucker will entertain, educate, inform, motivate, and inspire

You will get answers to questions you've always had and
thoughts you've always wondered.

AND . . .
insight to help you be make better driving decisions around trucks.

With these tips you will be able to show off to your friends in the car by throwing out information they don't have!

Secret of Life as a Trucker Success

Life as a trucker has been around for over 15 years. I started as a trucker to help other drivers with trucking career coaching, trucking job tips and trucker life hacks.

As a truck driver my self it was easy to see what was causing the most problems and as a problem solver I could see easily how to address them.

Often trucker look for the easy way to get their Class A CDL but it's not the best way for everyone. That's just an example of the nuance that comes with choosing a career and life as a trucker.

Changing the Face of the Trucking Industry

Truckers Life - Free Class About Trucking

Trucking jobs are important and in demand. These are jobs some of the reasons.

Purpose of Life as a Trucker

My purpose of Life-as-a-trucker.com is to. . .

1. Educate the person who is thinking about becoming a truck driver so that he or she will know what to expect. This will bring better quality drivers to the industry because they will have the information about transportation logistics and life on the road to make informed decision before getting on the road

2. Create a place for truckers and 4wheelers to mingle and interact leading to better understanding each other's highway habits. Making it easier to share the roads, increasing efficiency and improving safety.

3. To provide a place for professional drivers to unite with each other. Sharing information in the truckers forum and other places on the site. (Information such as good trucking companies, and truck stops to visit to get value service, best brokers to use, etc)

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