Is there a shortage of truck drivers in the trucking industry? Yes and No! The only reason there is a shortage of truck drivers in the trucking industry is because of an industry high 100% turnover ratio. The trucking industry machine chews up and spits out drivers on a daily basis creating a supposed shortage that is self manifested by the companies themselves.

New drivers have almost no chance of success. They see the big fancy corporate websites offering paid CDL training and a promising career of money, travel, and benefits. They quickly fall victim to the phony sales pitches signing contracts of doom as they enter the trucking grinder machine.

Upon arrival at the training school they quickly understand they have made a huge mistake. Poor housing matched with multiple drivers per room and filthy looking instructors that clearly would rather be somewhere else. After a few days of training they will see students packing their bags to go home. When they inquire why they are leaving the reality of the situation will hit them like a baseball bat.

If you do not keep up or do poorly on a test you are out! You are being relieved of duty and sent home. You are now responsible for the cost of your training, transportation, lodging, meals, and interest up to the point they decided you are not keeping up to par with the training. You can expect a few to go home about every three days.

If you should make it through the fast paced training you had better hope you draw a compatible over the road trainer. Many never make it through this process. Living in a truck with a complete stranger who is bossing you around for several weeks doesn’t fair well with most people. If you should you make it through that process you are now ready to get a truck of your own, get chewed up, and spit out of the trucking industry.

You will be governed by the federal hours of service rules and regulations as a driver. You will be dispatched by a dispatcher that works for the trucking company. You will end up in a situation every 7- 8 days where you have been, or are being dispatched with a load somewhere. When you look at your time that you have left to work you will notify your dispatcher that you can’t take the load or make the delivery time.

That’s when it all starts to fall apart for those who actually have made it this far. The dispatcher says you can make it and you say that you can’t. The threats will come and there you sit. If you run illegal and you get caught by a company audit you will be fired, not the dispatcher. If you get caught by the Department of Transportation (police) you will be fined big time and put out of service and possibly fired. If there is an accident while you are out of hours to drive you will go to jail. If you do not run illegal the dispatcher will starve you with no miles and make sure you never get home on time for the holidays, your kids birthday, or the weekend. You will never get any miles; you will get all the bad loads to all the bad places. You will be miserable sitting at a truck stop for days waiting for a load. You will be punished for not running illegally, make no mistake about it.

You will run illegal and screw up your record, get fired, and not be hirable anywhere else or you will refuse to run illegal, make just enough to pay for your meals, and be forced to quit. Either way you have been chewed up and spit out of the industry by the big machine. Don’t worry about the loads getting moved when you’re gone though, because there is another dummy that just got done training with the guy that trained you and he is ready to take your place. It’s like a dumb trucker relay!

You can go home now and figure out how you are going to pay the $6,000 training bill plus interest that you will get in the mail and on your credit report. You failed to fulfill you contract obligation of working for the trucking company for a year. Now you owe for everything! Welcome to the trucking industry. As you sit and try to figure out what happened the guy that was trained and replaced you in the truck is now being replaced by the guy who followed him through training school. 100% turnover means 100% turnover!

Look on Google at some of the trucking ads that run 365 days a year for some of the companies that take hire and train new drivers. How could they possible need new drivers everywhere in the country all the time when they only have 2,000 trucks and have not expanded in years. When each one of those trucks will need between 3 – 5 drivers a year to keep the truck moving you can understand why they had better run ads on Google 365 days a year.

The trucking industry is just plain corrupt. I got into the trucking industry and survived the training and going out with the trainer. It was not easy. I quickly put a plan together as a new driver and successfully got away from the break-in company I was working for after 3 months. I was hired by one of the best trucking companies in the industry. If I had not left when I did, using the plan I created, I would have been chewed up and spit out like most new drivers are.

If you get into the trucking industry you had better have a plan and a good one. Understand that it is going to be difficult and you will not make much money if you stay legal. If you choose to make dispatchers happy and run illegally your record will be shot in no time and you will never get a job like mine. If you are not mechanically inclined and a quick learner I suggest you stay away from trucking school and the trucking industry all together.

If you still want to move forward it is my opinion that you would be a fool if you don’t pick up my how to eBook guide “How to Make $65 - $95,000 Driving a Truck and be Home every Day”. It is the same plan that I used and with it you have half a chance! Without it you are in for an experience I would not wish on an enemy!

There is just so much Bad and Misinformation in the Trucking Industry it can be hard extremely hard to find the truth! Even the truck drivers that have been around for years can't seem to figure it out. It's hard to understand why so many Truck drivers work for Trucking companies that pay 20-30 cents a mile and are away from home for weeks at a time when they don't have to be!