| "Come join us on the "Big Road"." In just two weeks | | | | Why? Glad you asked. |
| you can be making the Big bucks driving one of these | | | | Driving Big rigs across this great country of ours is not |
| Big Rigs". | | | | a job, it is a lifestyle. If you have been working a |
| We have all seen the ads, promising big bucks, they | | | | factory job 7am to 3pm, with weekends off then you |
| are enticing for the out of work average Joe who | | | | probably wont like driving truck. If you like sleeping with |
| doesn't have a college degree. Heck they will even | | | | your wife (or husband) every night you really will not |
| finance your schooling with them, no credit needed. It's | | | | like driving truck. |
| only a few weeks', right? Well, actually, no. | | | | The lifestyle of the Big rig driver is filled with loneliness, |
| OK, I'll admit the school is a few weeks, most up to | | | | filled with demands to meet schedules and worse filled |
| four weeks and there are even a few out there that | | | | with people who have no consideration for you, your |
| will pay you while training, but it's the rest of the story | | | | time or your family. There are even some who don't |
| that they don't tell you that you really need to know. | | | | care enough about you that they will ask you to break |
| I know your sitting there at your desk wondering how | | | | the law. |
| you're going to pay the rent next month. Or even | | | | There are many more pitfalls in this lifestyle, too many |
| wondering if you will be able to feed your baby next | | | | to go into in this brief article, so before you decided to |
| week, but deciding to become a CMV (Commercial | | | | sign up with one of those truck driving schools and |
| Motor Vehicle) operator is not glamorous, it requires | | | | change your life forever get my book, it's only five |
| some serious sacrifice and if your going to enjoy it, it | | | | bucks and it may save you thousands. |
| also requires a certain kind of personality. | | | | |