Trying to find employment? Have you considered driving a truck?

What’s involved? Driving, early starts and maybe night driving, plenty of fast food and little exercise.

What skills do I need?

· You’ll want to have a full automobile driving license.

· You have to be over 18, over 21 or even 25 sometimes. Check out the licensing people regarding the minimum age for driving a semi.

· The ability to speak English. Alot of organisations will not let you onto their premises unless you can understand safety signs and directions written in English.

· Patience. You may meet loads of stupidity as you drive countrywide, largely from inexperienced drivers.

· The ability to work early mornings, or late evenings, without it impacting on your body chemistry too much

Where does one start? There are many routes into the job.

· You can start as a driver’s assistant, sitting inside cab, helping to unload and blocking traffic when the driver is reversing the truck. The company may hopefully contribute towards the cost of your truck driving education.

· One can pay a semi driving school to train you the ins and outs of handling different kinds of trucks.

Upon getting a licence it’s possible apply for driving work anywhere your licence is legal, or you can purchase a truck and create a transport company. Starting as an owner- operator is best left until you have additional experience of the business.

There are always going to be requirements for truck drivers. It’s just a matter of finding them. This is implicit in any distributed market, where such a significant amount of end- customers are only reachable by road transport.

Owner operators should actively search for loads to transport. The Internet makes this much easier. You may contact load brokers, who have access to information on loads to be moved from one part of the country to another. No longer will you have to factor into your quotes having to return empty, so you will get more opportunities.

Trucking firms are always looking for employed drivers and all you have to do is to search online, especially the specialist truck driving agency sites to locate opportunities in your town.

You’ll be able to procure more jobs if your licence covers a wider variety of trucks and if you are prepared to travel more extensive distances or to contemplate night driving.