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How did lifeasatrucker.com come to be?

Still, first I laughed with a smerk and said under my breath, “I should go to trucking school”

Quickly I caught myself and posed the question, “Why are you laughing, it's a decent job, you won't be cooped up in a building doing work that you feel could be done better with no one caring to hear your input. You could save some money by staying on the road and not renting anymore, you can drive all over the country and you like to drive anyway. So why are you not taking this serious?”

Yes, that entire conversation with my self took place. (Still do it, and I respond too so don't say it...)

So I went to trucking school. Alliance down in North Carolina.

Anyway, so, when I got on the road although things were a little different that I had expected. More paperwork, more rules than I had realized, the number of companies which offered slightly different options.

Good for me though, none of those things mattered. To start, I had no girl, wife or kids. There were 3 kids that I cared deeply about but they were my ex's and we had split up. I am sure my attitude kind of help also which developed largely from what my Dad and Mom taught us as a child.

When you have something to do, just do it. Don't waste time complaining or dreading it just adapt to the situation and do it. So you see, trucking wasn't really that bad for a guy in my situation and with I had been taught.

What I saw though was a lot of guys who were in different situations. They had issues and they were miserable. Many knew about as much about trucking as I did, very little. It cause serious problems with them though, because they had families, high bills, the need to be home more regular and other related issues.

Plus I assume a lot of people that I talked to didn't really learn some things at home like prioritizing correctly (we HAD to do our chores before anything, then homework, then eat, etc...)

Along with that, of course you either get or miss responsibility, discipline, etc... you get the idea.

You may ask, what does it have to do with trucking?

Well without those important lessons and with all of the freedom on the road, what makes a person have the work ethic needed to want to perform well? What makes a driver want to be on time? What make him/her find out how to save money on the road so he can have some to send to his family for the bills which is why he/she is driving? (Won't believe the number of people who just spend a little everyday and come bill time there is not enough money left.)

So all of these things that we learn at an early age. Or I should say all of the things that we are exposed is useful later in life. Even you done don't use them as you should, you have it in you to draw upon at some point and to some extent.

Supposed for what ever reason, you don't learn those things?

Well it shows in your behavior, attitude and your actions. As a driver, your actions make a difference just like anywhere else.

If you don't take care of your license, it will keep you from getting better job eventually. If you don't have a good attitude it can negatively affect the relationship between you and the person who is dispatching you on loads. It can also cause you to act inappropriate when being stopped by the D.O.T. Or Highway patrol. These things are not good. It is how you get bad drivers.

Eventually they are miserable because they are stuck at a company that only keep them because they can use him to do everything that do one else want's to do and they know he/she can't get a job anywhere else.

They will keep him until he is too much of a problem and then they will find a reason to let him go.

I started recorded footage and writing notes seriously somewhere around 2003. I wanted to present the story of the truck driver to the public so they would learn what truckers and trucking in really like.I also wanted to help people think through some things before they actually became truckers to determine if they should really get their CDL and go OTR or not. Plus, I wanted to be able to use trucking as a tool to teach some of the skills, principles, and lessons that I learned from my parents while growing up in case people exposed to my information didn't get those lessons when they were young.

I had wanted to have a social impact doing this in the community for a while and hadn't finalized thoughts on how to do this. A non profit was in mind.

Soon the idea of using trucking as a tool to accomplish this goal became my passion. Instead of focusing on the community after talking to so many people who seemed not to want to hear anything useful, I figured I could sneak this type of information into the minds of people who were interested in trucking. :-)

In 2006 while continuing my search for how to make money online, knowing that I did not want to drive a truck forever since I had no wife and kids, I ran across SBI. At first I was only interested in their affiliate program. I had played with many others and some were scams, others were ridiculous.

(By the way, I had been looking into making money online since 1995 when I bought an online Storefront for like $3,000, lol. I was also a virtual travel agent, had a auto responder reminder service. None of which made money, lol)

I wasn't really convinced at first and did what a sensible person should do.....read about the company and the guy behind it. After learning how Dr. Ken Evoy came about starting the company and hearing what type of guy he was, I could tell he was pretty much, the same type of person I was.

I immediately signed up as an affiliate. Didn't feel too comfortable about it much because I hadn't really used what I was trying to sell.

I then went and read information provided and watch the videos about Site Build it for building websites. After learning more and more about the entire process that he had develop, I realized that building a website about trucking life could be a way to capture the attention of people looking for information about trucking jobs.

I could try and discourage those who are not compatible for the trucking lifestyle and help guide those who are. At the same time try and enlighten their minds to a new way of looking at life. (if needed of course)

Now I had already build a couple of website too. Didn't really know what I was doing but I got it up. First one in 1999 with anglefire easy. Then my own domain and design in 2000 disaster, lol. Meaning no traffic.)

But what I learned is that SBI teaches you everything step by step from concept to end results, reaching as many people as possible. I figured if nothing else, I would know for sure how hard to push the affiliate sales after trying it.

Well, you are on the site now if you are reading this. You probably got here from a search engine, where I rank number 1 for many trucking related keywords as a result of SBI's guidance and my desire to deliver. More than 1,000 people visit per day from around the world with roughly 70% percent coming from the US. Great visitors and contributors help me keep the information growing.

Eventually came Collin who narrated his trip through trucking school, that was cool but he disappeared quickly, it still was a great contribution though. Then came American Trucker and Dennis who has shared some serious insights. You will see Nick V often too. He started as a discouraged newbie. He keep getting doors slammed but he never gave up until he got hired. In about a years time he was training. (He had that attitude). These are people who really make the site shine, they provide input often when I was driving and too busy to do so.

I have had countless offers to do TV shows as a trucker from Australia to the U.S. From people who found me on the website and youtube. It's not really my cup of tea to become famous. Just like I don't want to drive a truck as a father and wife, I don't want to be famous as a father or wife. LOL. (To each his/her own!) Besides, like I said my desire is to do my own production about real trucking life, from behind the scenes.

I had planned to get back to the affiliate marketing of SBI after all of the success and proof that it works.

However I got so consumed with working on the site, making videos, writing, creating CD's thatI never really got back to pushing the affiliate program. Besides the website makes a little money too.

But, in Sept 2011 my trucking company went out of business. Now I have a little more free time. First, however I went straight to school. I am now a certified Life Coach and I have completed the Counselor Training program in Tennessee all to help me be more effector with my message on the website, CD's, and writing and leadership.

I am still lined up to take Breakthrough Parenting which will help me have better insight about effective parenting. I figure it will help me do better coaching and one day be a better parent than I would be right now. So it was a great investment.

This year 2012 I plan to take the lifeasatrucker.com to another level. I hope that you stick around to witness it.

Eventually, I will push the affiliate program more, because I know the SBI website building software works. It works so well that It's hard to find time to be an affiliate. But I guess you take the bitter with the sweet. Lol

If you are looking for a way to make extra income, you might want to check it out SBI software of the affiliate program. And you might as well use my affiliate link to do it if you want

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What's good,what's missing, what did you like or didn't like. Did it give you a good enough insight about driving to make a decision. Did you realize it is a lot more to the decision to drive than you initially thought.

LOL Did you realize that being a driver is a little more complicated than you had thought.

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