Why I became a truck driver is not what you might expect. I didn’t grow up dreaming about trucks. Not even close.
Like a lot of people do – especially guys, sometimes women too – I wasn’t one of those who had it in them since childhood. I wasn’t around trucks. I wasn’t around cars. I wasn’t part of that world at all. Motorsport, engines, trucking… it all felt distant to me. Almost irrelevant.
Back when I was working in a corporate job, I used to say this about myself quite often: I needed to see the result of my work. Not someday. Not in a presentation. Not in a system somewhere. But immediately.
Something real. Something visible. Something that shows you – you did this. And I never had that.
It’s kind of funny when I think about it now.
At the end of 2024, going into 2025, I went to India. I spent almost a month there, including a 21-day Ayurvedic Panchakarma retreat.
And honestly… I cleared a lot, old relationships / work / my head / everything. And when I came back, things were suddenly clearer. I knew I wanted to leave the corporate world. I knew I didn’t want to sit in an open office anymore. And I knew I didn’t want to be a system engineer / data analyst.
That’s when the idea of trucking appeared.
Why a truck?
At that time, I had no idea how physically or mentally demanding this job really is. I just saw something else: Something was calling me and as a bonus, there are thousands of companies out there looking for drivers.
And in my previous career, I always had one big problem — everything I did (every job / every role) was extremely specific. So specific that I couldn’t really move anywhere else.
I felt stuck in that system.
Being a truck driver, on the other hand, made sense to me.
I’ve always loved traveling. I never had a problem packing up and leaving. Being on the road never bothered me. Yes, I was only driving a car back then — not a truck — but still.
That idea of freedom… of being able to work across different companies, different countries across Europe / World. That was something completely new to me.
(Back then, I didn’t even think about going beyond Europe. But that came later.)
So I started digging. What does it actually take to become a truck driver? I used my natural analytical mind set:
1. What do you need? / 2. What are the steps? / 3. How does it all work?
After months of searching, thinking, and slowly preparing myself mentally to leave my previous job / life.
I made the decision. I was stepping away from the comfortable corporate life. From home office. From that strange comfort of doing less while pretending it matters.
And in April 2025, I officially started my journey.
The journey to get all the licenses, all the paperwork… And to enter what I had no idea would become one of the most intense — and real — chapters of my life.
At that time, I had no idea what I was really getting into. I didn’t know how demanding it would be. I didn’t know what it would take from me. But I knew I needed a change. And this was the direction I chose.