It requires weeks away from your family as well as many other big challenges.
This is a good opportunity for any women out there that loves driving, adventures and challenges.
Similar to the local and regional truck driving, you can be a owner-operating or work for a company.
Mostly, women get into trucking because of a family tie. Usually, their father or their partner is a truck driver and they drive as a team. But, most certainly there are those out there that are simply passionate about driving.
However, there are women that get into OTR or any trucking job for that matter only because of the good payments. Though this is not completely bad motivation to start with it, surely is not the way to stay long. You really need to be passionate to stick with it. Otherwise, sooner or later you will quit the job.
When it comes particularly to women as OTR truck drivers there are a little bit more challenges than a man OTR driver would face.