Most drivers can look back and point to one thing they wish they had known before taking that first trucking job.
Maybe it was:
- Believing the recruiter too easily
- Focusing only on cents per mile
- Ignoring home time
- Choosing the wrong freight type
- Going with the first company that said yes
- Not asking enough questions about training
If you could sit down with a brand-new CDL graduate for five minutes and give them one piece of advice before they accepted their first job, what would it be?
And for newer drivers:
What's the biggest surprise you've discovered since getting your CDL?
The goal isn't to complain about companies.
The goal is to help the next generation avoid mistakes many of us learned the hard way.