I want to become a truck driver, I m26 and a female...?

Question

is this going to be an issue?
Also where should I go, like a good trucking school in Alberta prefferably.
BTW, im almost six feet tall, so Im not a little shrimp.

Answer 1

Ya it is nice to do what you want...But if for whatever reason you don't get to do it..You are not missing out on much. It is not very glamourous work. Wether you do the longhaul or are peddling freight. I would lean more towards the peddlling freight due to the fact that you can be home every night and still make more money than most of them dumbass longhaulers that can't drive worth of crap.

Every time a see a werner truck in the city I try to avoid it all costs. Cause you know if he/she is trying to back into a tight spot you are going to be waiting for a while. But at least you will be getting paid...unlike the dummy in ther werner truck...LOL.

It is not just the driving you have to contend with it is the damaged freight, pissed off customers, misloads, reworking the loads, spills, pallets tipping over, dummies stacking a 900lb pallet on a 150lb pallet, more pissed off customers, miserable receivers that are pissed off becuase of their career choice of $8 an hour, you know, just stopping for a pack of smokes can turn into a real night mare, forced dispatch, 10am appointment...you don't dispatch till 11am. That 10am appointment that just got refused is now blocking the rest of the freight in the truck. Now you get to move it around all day. No Dock..No problem.....No forklift...No Problem....No dock or no forklift...I guess you will be working around that one as well. How nice of the guy that loaded your trailer to forget to sweep it. A toothpick will stop a 6-700 lb skid on a pallet jack dead in it's tracks. Did you hear that? Was that a piece of steel that someone didn't secure rolling around like a wrecking ball. Or could it have been a 700lb drum of some surely cancer causing chemical that just nearly went right through the back door. Boy I wish that thing did go out the back door cause now it is leaking all over the place. Sure you can fit..I have trucks come down here all the time...you only have to back out 2 miles onto a nice busy city street. Some dummy just rear ended you now you will be tied up for a good hour while they try to blame you for backing up in the street. It is now 12pm and you only have 6 or 7 deliveries left. Oh what is this we have..great.. my lovely dispatcher just sent you 5 pickups that close by 2 or 3 and just for extra fun you have already delivered to 3 of them. Boy that sure is a lot of rushing around. Getting hungry yet? No problem just reach in to the old lunch can and yank out a PB&J that black stuff all over hands is all over the inside of your lungs so you may as well add some to the inside of your stomach as well. Private way=No way, 2 pallets of paper to the 7th floor uhhh thats only about 6800 lbs, then you get the secretary thats only making $12 and hour (and she only got that from hanging out under the desk) talk to you like you are some kind of a scum bag and say oh just put it in that back closet. We stop receiving at 11am, we are at lunch, closed for inventory, we didn't order that, dammit they sent us the wrong thing, How we doing mike? Was that a power line you just ripped down? That might explain the pecker head in the lexus blinking his high beams at me. Guess I won't be able to make that pickup. Ohhh...Plenty of room to turn around down there. No Trucks...No Problem...One more you can work around for the day..Don't worry though, they will send you right back there tomorrow to. Then when you are finally done and you hear the words "Bring it home". Still haven't eaten your lunch mind you. You get back to the terminal and the Freight Operations stupidvisor says "Where you Been?". What took so long? Don't worry though you can get hime back with Do you want me to take my lunch now? That will get him going pretty good. May as well go through some warm clothes on becuase he needs help on the dock and it's only 14 degrees out there. minus another 10 or so for the wintunnel effect coming through the dock doors. Hope this helps.

There a few local female drivers I run into once in a while. One of them is smokin hot to. She works for FedEx Freight She can't be a day over 23 or 24. I have a lot of respect for her for doing this shitty work and still maintaining her beauty.

Answer 2

Are you up for local or long haul ? Pack you bags and see the country while you can. With the right company and you could probably retire comfortably by age fifty. Even local , home daily type driving one can amass a chunk of change. It shouldn't be an issue with a mature crowd. Numerous good female drivers in the lower forty-eight. Hammer Down Gal.

Answer 3

Best thing to do is do some work experience with current truck drivers. I'm sure they would appreciate the company and get the real deal on what the lifestyle is like.
You are young so there's opportunity to see if this is a great thing for you to do

Answer 4

Definitely not. There are plenty of female commercial drivers. You wouldn't have a problem gaining respect on the road. I don't know of any good schools in Alberta but my husband got his commercial driving training at Smith and Solomon in NJ.

Answer 5

Yes, if there's a truck driving school in your area, by all means attend. You will need to get your "combo" license for driving tractor-trailer rigs and/or overweight loads. I worked in a company that had a lady working as an otr (over-the-road) trucker. She wasn't all that big, but loved the job.

Answer 6

see you on the road,trucker.