TD102: What's It Like to Be A Trucker?
Trucker Dump - A Trucking Podcast
English - May 19, 2014 05:30 - 47 minutes - 22 MB - ★★★★★ - 69 ratingsCareers Business Society & Culture Personal Journals trucker truck driving trucking trucking industry semi 18-wheeler big rigs lifestyle careers trucking lifestyle Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In today's episode, I bring the interview I did over at JobShadow.com into the Trucker Dump. And so I don't sound like a lunatic asking myself questions, I recruited my friend @alanqbristol to act as the interviewer. This interview describes what trucking is really like and I've gotten a lot of good feedback from the readers over there. Case in point:
Kristine asks a question about women in trucking and team trucking in TD88: You Can't See America from the Trucker's Lounge and I follow up with her about the woman issue and we discuss pet and rider policies in TD89: Truckers with Sleep Apnea: How to Know If You Have It and What to Do About It.
From TD93: The Driver's Seat Phenomenon, Paul asks whether an old accident will keep him out of trucking, Frank asks for company recommendations, and Shelley asks about communicating from the truck and she wonders if she can really learn to drive a truck in 15 days.
In TD95: 4 Reasons That Trucker Might Be Tailgating You, CJ asks about having a felony and provides a couple of Web sites that list trucking companies who will hire felons.
In the current feedback section, Joseph asks about age limits, Scott questions whether he can be a trucker with a bad back, Karrie asks how to "shadow" a trucker, Emily just wants to pat us truckers on the back, Denver wonders if there are jobs for truckers who don't want to be away from home long, and Billy gives a stiff warning to people considering truck driving as a career. I also show you how whistling makes you cool. Uh huh.
Other links mentioned are @driverchrismc and his belittling me with his correction.
Lastly, Eric Blacker a.k.a. @darkstaff has started a new project called Trucker's Paradigm. In this audio clip, he's calling for trucking stories and you're a big, fat liar if you say you don't have at least one good one. Here's the email and the Facebook and Twitter links.
https://www.facebook.com/TruckersParadigm
https://twitter.com/truckerparadigm
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