Trucking Life And Career Coaching

Trucking life is challenging but can be financially rewarding. Becoming a trucker is a serious decision that affects the entire family. Find out if you are compatible for the trucking lifestyle and how to choose the right trucking job for a successful career.

CDL Training Options

Ask a Question

New Truck Driver Tips

Advantages of trucking

Disadvantages of trucking

Types of Class A Driving Jobs

Becoming an Owner Operator

Types of Truck Driving Jobs

Choosing a Company

Trucking is Awesome Because of the Opportunities it Offers

Some Topics Covered

We will fill you in on what to expect as a truck driver and also answer your questions...

More trucking related info you will learn...

Ask A Trucker Questions

Trucker Success Coaches at Life-as-a-trucker.com give you the info and insight that you need to make trucking a successful career.

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!

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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