yea it is a good job. i have been at it for 5 years and it is getting harder to make any money at it because the companies want to hire the new guys because they can pay them 35000 a year and it takes 50000 a year to keep the experienced drivers. so they will say goodbye to the experienced guys and hire the rookies (no offense intended). i just want to let everybody that is thinking that it is a good career. THINK AGAIN in about 4 to 5 years you will be in the same boat i am in. 5 years of civilan experience and the 3 years in the marines and cannot find a job that is willing to pay for the experience. And another note is that sounds like good pay but nobody thinks about what it costs to live on the road for weeks at a time. It will cost you about $150 to $200 a week to live out here. that dont sound like much but 35000 a year only comes to $673 dollars a week minus 20% taxes and the $150 a week that comes $388 bring home a week. can you support your family on that? And the money aside you will be away from home for weeks or months at a time and then will get to go home for 2 or 3 days and the company will want you back out. when i started driving i went to driving school for 2 weeks then through company training for 12 weeks then got my own truck and it was another 3 weeks before i got home you add that up and it comes to 17 weeks which is a little over 4 months. now i work for a flatbed company and yea i get home every weekend for 34 hrs get home friday night and leave sunday morning. So if you can deal with these things than yes it is good move but dont get allmad when it snt what the recruiters tell you.

just exactly what is a rigorous screening process..we got mexican truck drivers wreckin and killing everyday...but a poor white man with a ticket...oh lets just shoot that S O B