There’s been some brilliant advice here, and you’re lucky to have had such replies, especially being that it has been from those who have been there and know from from their own experience exactly where you are heading.
Whilst the idea may appeal you of swanning about in a big motor on tramping, don’t kid yourself that you’ll be earning the big bucks, because tramping unless very specialised just doesn’t pay well, the pay is designed around you doing 2 weeks working hours for one weeks pay, then making the mistake that many do of thinking your subsistence pay is part of your wages…no it bloody isn’t…and unless you like living as a hermit spending every moment not driving huddled inside or polishing your tin shed, living off baked beans with sausages, you’ll spend most of your night out money getting away from the bloody lorry before you go as insane as most here.
Transport has changed completely especially in the last 25 years, where tramping could be a social job years ago, you’d invariably meet up with a few like minded drivers and stroll off for a pint and a bite to eat, now increasingly those drivers that are insular hostile and aggressive towards each other on the road are the same ones who will be parked up and pull the curtains round the second they stop, the good fun but hard work days of transport have gone, so as said above don’t get any romantic dreams about it, the reality will be anything but.
Meanwhile your young wife and family grow apart from you, they see you at weekends and you become increasingly a stranger, you end up living different lives…what does that matter if it suits you both now?, well it matters when you suddenly decide at age 50 that you don’t want this any more, so, ‘i’ll go on days love’…and you expect to just pick back up from 20 years ago, well unfortunately if you’re still together your wife and family may not exactly welcome this, at best you’ll be under her feet and worse it may well be the final straw for the relationship, then all that work for the future is flushed down the toilet and you could be yet another late middle aged bloke cleaned out living back in bedsit land or worse still forced to live in a lorry like the poor bloody foreigners trying to etch a living over here in lorries.
Believe me i’ve seen this, i’ve worked with blokes who if they got back to the yard in the week would sleep in the lorry…‘‘save that 10 mile drive home’’…yeah right.
To be fair with some couples it works, they’re as happy as two pigs in a pile of poop, but you have to remember generations and expectations from life have moved on, some young women especially are not content with the prospect of working class lives any more.
If you decide to do this then best of luck to you and i hope it works well for all of you, but as the majority of posters here have said, think about this hard.
edit…just seen your avatar, do you drive a flour tanker like that?, if so thats a bloody well paid number with them, lots of blokes here would give their eye teeth for that, don’t be in a rush jobs like that don’t grow on trees…and whatever happens to the economy flour will always be needed.
and wether he wants it or not he,s going to get it 
ive only done tramping for three months while i was at maritime but i freakin loved it hate being a day man… at the moment. Moneys good but thats not what i want…
