Profile For Jamie

@Cole- I absolutely will. Thank you for the insight, I'll see if I can look for programs to help my tuition costs.

@Deb R. - Thank you so much! I appreciate the encouragement! :D

Hello, all. My name is Jamie, I'm out of the Pittsburgh area, looking at trucking as a new career path. Traditional schools have never really interested me and I'm not from or have a lot of money. As well as wanting the chances to travel a bit, and not have a boss hovering over my shoulder (I know this site has a few advisements on the solitude of long haul trucking, but that's definitely something I'm fine with.)

I guess I have a couple of concerns. I'm going to be 28 this year and so far my career has been behind a computer at a desk, for the most part. Is 28 too late to start driving? Are there any issues that I'm going to have to look at not being in my early 20s anymore? My driving record is clean, no criminal record, no nothing like that. In relatively good health as well.

The second concern is that I'm looking to either go to one of our local private trucking schools (All-State Career is out here), but I've also seen Swift's trucking school that is free if you work for them for 26 months and can help with financing. I'm short on money so that looks like a fantastic option but at the same time, I don't know if I'd get as much overall training that could help me with many different companies by only going to Swift over a private training career school. Should I take the compensated, but specific training, or go for one that would help me get a more broad, general skillset that could apply in a lot of different scenarios?

Any advice you ladies could give me would be most appreciated. Thank you.

-Jamie