Insulin? Get off it.
You must have a Good medical situation and any hint of diabetes risk a special kind of Coma that can turn a 40 ton tractor trailer into a ramming machine destroying 20 cars and their people....
Schedules in driving is to the company. Your ass belongs to dispatch and cannot get to the doctor for more prescription refills of Insulin or Testing etc.
Your very good car record is good. But means nothing. UNTIL you have a accident, DWI, DUI etc as in anything when you hold a CDL.
Its good you have money for school. YAY. But the money on the road is going to cost you a
load more money to maintain your nutrition and hydrate among other problems.
You will encounter situations that are not human. You will be swapping your body clock and fighting it every 15 hours trying to get mandatory sleep when you are bright eyed and busy tailed. Then dead tired when finally loaded and cannot roll because you have been awake on your feet for 10 hours waiting on the trailer to be finished loading. Be due somewhere next morning at sunrise 600 plus miles away.
Late? Yer fired. Orientation? They spew so much campy BS. The reality will hit you when you are finally after two months stuck with a babysitt... er Trainer and handed keys to your first tractor trailer which will have issues and is worn out. Some of your new issues will require shop work and be less than optimal for work.
This industry is regulated to the Nth degree. You almost cannot breathe inside a tractor trailer without permission or some computer taking note of it.
More than likely you cannot idle. 25 degrees? Engine off. 110 degrees? Sit there and sweat. If you are inside Jersey, NYC etc Be aware people rake in 90 dollars from the city if you are reported for idlng you pay the 300 dollar fine, they get 90 dollars and do nothing but go around reporting idlers for income. Some approach 150,000 a year cash.
Your loads are not yours. Your schedule is not yours. People say they will have you do things you did not sign up for. You get bent over both ways while sucking it foricbly. Then theres the DOT, FMCSA and So forth all the way down to the insufferable county lawman who thinks your scuffed tire is OOS violation.
You can want that CDL, you can wanna drive a truck. But Brother you were born decades too late to do this freely.
