Would You Get Back Into Trucking If A Parent Was Sick And In And Out Of The Hospital ?

I've been out of trucking since mid April. I was driving locally around Northeast Ohio, Western PA and Western NY and home nightly. I got burnt out and decided to hang it up. Since then I've been landscaping and am underpaid and barely covering all of my bills. I'm 24 with no wife or kids. I'm starting to get the itch to go out again. This time I want to run regionally. I've been looking into the Midwest regional with Roehl and a few other companies. By the way, do you recommend any other companies that offer a good Midwest regional route ? Anyways, back to my problem. My mother has been sick for nearly a year now. She has non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver and is very week and ill now and in desperate need of a liver transplant. She was called and scheduled for one this past week and 3 came available but later to find out that the donor livers were bad. This is a little dilemma for me. I really want to get back out on the road and make some money but on the other hand I don't want to leave my mothers side. I know she needs me but I need to make a living right now. What would you do in a situation like this ? Have you ever experienced something similar to this ? I just need a little advice on what some of you truck drivers would do ? Thanks.

Man, that's really a tough one. I don't envy your situation that's for sure.

It sounds like she's so close to receiving a transplant that you'd want to wait until she gets through that. If it was even several months out, that would be different. But it sounds like the surgery is imminent so I think I would stick around.

In the meantime you can start researching and applying for jobs. We have an awesome listing of truck driving jobs and we now have a new feature where you can apply to a long list of companies with just one application. You can find that here:

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As far as regional , when you look over that list focus on dry van or possibly flatbed. There are very few regional opportunities in refrigerated.

Roehl has the best home time packages I know of in the industry and we get a ton of great feedback from drivers that work there so it's certainly a great company to consider. But have a look at our truck driving jobs and try throwing your application to a bunch of different trucking companies.

Hopefully your ma will have her surgery and be well on her way to recovery real soon! Best of luck to her!!!!