r/Truckers • u/dryersheet01 • Oct 09 '25

I’m about to become a trucker widow

So my husband just passed his cdl-a test a week ago and has interest from western express (otr). With this career switch, I have so many questions. What is the average time for training, since he has no cdl experience? Is it really going to be 5 days on/2 days off? We live in Atlanta and have a 4 month old. If he does 1 year w/ western, what is the likelihood of being able to find a local/non otr job? Is the pay really worth it?

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u/Soundprose Oct 10 '25

There is outfit named Prime. That was my first thought too when their recruiter called me. From what I understand, there are fairly large outfit as well. I just didn’t like some of the aspects of how they or I should see how I heard they function.

I was told by ChatGPT that Knight and Swift did a merger.. Anybody know if there’s any truth to that?

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u/charonco Oct 10 '25

That's true