You want to be a Truck driver? You are already!

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Nobody can stop your dream! If you imagine what you want, it happened already!

I see people here trying to make it in the profession and all the old guys come back saying all the common discouraging things.

There is no job that its nice, and if you think trucking is the worst job of the planet you should try get a job on a ship and I don’t mean luxury cruisers here.

You know, opinions, everyone has one like other stuff come with the body.

I pay little attention to that kind of discouragement.

What I do pay attention is my calling. What I want to do! What I like to do in life versus what I was pushed doing once because I was too little and someone else was paying the bills.

If I or anyone wants to be a trucker, or a miner, or a sailor or working in newspaper old printers somewhere in Mexico, well that’s your decision and I am sure you will do fine, because YOU WANT IT.

I don’t need anyone to feed me with ideas to contemplate how things will be difficult and how things will be dangerous and how things will be money-less and on and on and on about being a truck driver or Owner operator is impossible.

Let me tell you what I see, what I contemplate. The conditions that surround a profitable life, a happy life, behind the wheel of an LGV.

And this, is happening. Now as we speak. I can see my truck.

You can go say all the things you want, that what you are doing it can not be done. I don’t care. I don’t notice your comments, they are deleted.

It is my intention, to have my own truck. I can see it. A white Scania R. I can see struggling like all of you, because anything that comes with that job, I want to feel it, to hurt me, to find the way to get by. Because this is what I want to do. And if you did it, so anyone who want to do it as well, simply CAN.

Any job you do, if you believe it will not bring you money, it wont. Take any profession you want, ask those who does it, they will tell you the big companies make the money and you will never get rich at it. Ask ANY job. The answer is the same.

Everything that now is, it was once imagined. Believe in your dream and you will get all you want.

I am a trucker. And so are you. The only difference is I know it and you do not believe it!

There is a simply rule in life. You do not attract what you want, you attract what you are.

Look out for my Artic saying Achilles. I can see it, you will see it soon. I hope to meet all of you in the years to come.

God bless you all.

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Terrific,super,smashing !

" Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind ".

Good luck :smiley:

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Most on here will give realistic advice and tell you how it is

Not heeding that info is totally up to the individual

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I agree with what ROG has said, and will add that the opening post is nonsense.

Just because you don’t get the answers you want when asking about the road haulage industry doesn’t make the answers unnecessarily negative or incorrect, perhaps they’re just realistic replies based on peoples personal experience of the industry.

Follow “your dream” by all means, but follow it with blind belief and with no thought as to how it will be achieved, or the obstacles that you may encounter, and be prepared to accept the consequences when the dream turns out to be just that … a dream.

Having a goal, or dream if you prefer to call it that, is a bit like using a sat-nav, it can be a useful tool that will help you, or it can be a tool that will lead you astray.
Follow it blindly and completely ignore the advice and experiences of people who know the area and in all probability it will eventually lead you astray.

Good luck anyway :slight_smile:

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Is it the hardest job in the world? No where near.

But please lose these rose tinted glasses cos they will end up smashed and trodden on.

This job swings from being the easiest most relaxed job i can do to trying to make you want to kick the windscreen through with frustration. Experience will teach you to let it go over your head and chill.

As a new pass/yet to pass you haven’t felt that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you think “no way will I get this truck out if this place without damage” Experience will teach you that you can and will do many many times.

The hours can either be normalish or horrific. Again know this before you start and you will be fine with it.

Same with wages - some ■■■■, some good, some great. As a new pass I’m 99% sure you will be very unlikely to get the latter. Accept this and you will be fine.

Basically go in with an open mind and a few facts/bits of advice and you will enjoy it but please please lose the romantic view cos it ain’t realistic and will only disappoint.

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Achilles:
Nobody can stop your dream! If you imagine what you want, it happened already!

I see people here trying to make it in the profession and all the old guys come back saying all the common discouraging things.

There is no job that its nice, and if you think trucking is the worst job of the planet you should try get a job on a ship and I don’t mean luxury cruisers here.

You know, opinions, everyone has one like other stuff come with the body.

I pay little attention to that kind of discouragement.

What I do pay attention is my calling. What I want to do! What I like to do in life versus what I was pushed doing once because I was too little and someone else was paying the bills.

If I or anyone wants to be a trucker, or a miner, or a sailor or working in newspaper old printers somewhere in Mexico, well that’s your decision and I am sure you will do fine, because YOU WANT IT.

I don’t need anyone to feed me with ideas to contemplate how things will be difficult and how things will be dangerous and how things will be money-less and on and on and on about being a truck driver or Owner operator is impossible.

Let me tell you what I see, what I contemplate. The conditions that surround a profitable life, a happy life, behind the wheel of an LGV.

And this, is happening. Now as we speak. I can see my truck.

You can go say all the things you want, that what you are doing it can not be done. I don’t care. I don’t notice your comments, they are deleted.

It is my intention, to have my own truck. I can see it. A white Scania R. I can see struggling like all of you, because anything that comes with that job, I want to feel it, to hurt me, to find the way to get by. Because this is what I want to do. And if you did it, so anyone who want to do it as well, simply CAN.

Any job you do, if you believe it will not bring you money, it wont. Take any profession you want, ask those who does it, they will tell you the big companies make the money and you will never get rich at it. Ask ANY job. The answer is the same.

Everything that now is, it was once imagined. Believe in your dream and you will get all you want.

I am a trucker. And so are you. The only difference is I know it and you do not believe it!

There is a simply rule in life. You do not attract what you want, you attract what you are.

Look out for my Artic saying Achilles. I can see it, you will see it soon. I hope to meet all of you in the years to come.

God bless you all.

What the heck? :confused: :open_mouth:

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I have no problem with your view, but don’t go thinking you’re excluded from the same problems the rest of us face getting started or while out there.

Otherwise, good luck and hope to see that artic someday.

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Achilles:
Nobody can stop your dream! If you imagine what you want, it happened already!

I see people here trying to make it in the profession and all the old guys come back saying all the common discouraging things.

There is no job that its nice, and if you think trucking is the worst job of the planet you should try get a job on a ship and I don’t mean luxury cruisers here.

You know, opinions, everyone has one like other stuff come with the body.

I pay little attention to that kind of discouragement.

What I do pay attention is my calling. What I want to do! What I like to do in life versus what I was pushed doing once because I was too little and someone else was paying the bills.

If I or anyone wants to be a trucker, or a miner, or a sailor or working in newspaper old printers somewhere in Mexico, well that’s your decision and I am sure you will do fine, because YOU WANT IT.

I don’t need anyone to feed me with ideas to contemplate how things will be difficult and how things will be dangerous and how things will be money-less and on and on and on about being a truck driver or Owner operator is impossible.

Let me tell you what I see, what I contemplate. The conditions that surround a profitable life, a happy life, behind the wheel of an LGV.

And this, is happening. Now as we speak. I can see my truck.

You can go say all the things you want, that what you are doing it can not be done. I don’t care. I don’t notice your comments, they are deleted.

It is my intention, to have my own truck. I can see it. A white Scania R. I can see struggling like all of you, because anything that comes with that job, I want to feel it, to hurt me, to find the way to get by. Because this is what I want to do. And if you did it, so anyone who want to do it as well, simply CAN.

Any job you do, if you believe it will not bring you money, it wont. Take any profession you want, ask those who does it, they will tell you the big companies make the money and you will never get rich at it. Ask ANY job. The answer is the same.

Everything that now is, it was once imagined. Believe in your dream and you will get all you want.

I am a trucker. And so are you. The only difference is I know it and you do not believe it!

There is a simply rule in life. You do not attract what you want, you attract what you are.

Look out for my Artic saying Achilles. I can see it, you will see it soon. I hope to meet all of you in the years to come.

God bless you all.

I have commented on your ideas on your other thread, so I ONLY have one more question and then i will leave you to your dream.

Does your wife mind living a single life with a child/children for huge amounts of your future married life, whilst you tramp over europe which is YOUR dream ?
That conversation is the single most important one you will ever have…Divorce and child payments ■■■■■■■ most guys !

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I wish I could like evangelical ‘born again’ trucker types but I just can’t…

I hope the OP does turn out to be the next Eddie Stobart and shows us all how it’s done.

I especially want him to be a huge success and leave innocent plebs like me gazing in wonderment.

That way, I won’t have to listen to yet another embittered, whingeing, disheartened dreamer (whose enthusiasm for the Industry didn’t last as long as the warranty on their SatNav) Boring me to death as we wait to get loaded some place…

Good luck anyhow,

W

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That kind of enthusiasm was never ment to last. :open_mouth:

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Well atleast it’s a positive post, unlike all the replys. I don’t think the op is trying to make out life driving a lorry is all cream cheese, it’s just about trying to look positively on bettering your situation in life and how to stay focused on achieving a goal.

I’m going get lintched for sayings this but I get the impression that “some” that is “some” lorry drivers think thay have it harder than the rest of the working population. The industry Iv been in for decades now is suffering like you would nt beleave the pay is less than it was 10 years ago and I’m having to work longer harder hours for it too, people in my industry are being made redundant more and more so everyday and thay have no where to go because all other places are cutting staff too. companys are going bust left right and centre and it only looks to get worse.

yes that’s right almost all other industry’s are in just as bad a state as transport, sorry to burst your bubble. Someone out there is just trying to think positive, lets not ■■■■ on it. Be thankful you just have a job these days.

I know I am greatful for mine more so than I ever was befor even thow I’m payed less than I was 10 years ago. because soon I may not have a job to mood about . Then I’ll look back on min wage job with rosé tinted glasses. Oh I forgot we smashed them in a hissy fit while working full time. Just remember the old Chinese saying

" I cried for I had no shoes till I met the man with no feet.

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Fair play to the guy…