overseas trucking

I've never done the truck driving over there as a contractor, but let's put it this way: We have our assigned weapons to defend ourselves, truck driving contractors from what I've been told do not. Not to mention, our current president wants to get us out of Afghanistan, so your options are going to slim down. I am currently in the Army and yeah, the money is really good to drive over there as a contractor but not worth the aggravation imo. Don't forget that there are trucking companies in the US that don't consider driving over there as OTR experience.

 

The contractor jobs in Iraq and Afghanistan are getting pretty dry Iraq now is state department not army contracts and mostly done by locals and Afghanistan if Obama pulls out so will the jobs but Kuwait has some but not as much has they had a just a few years ago but there are alot of good company In Kuwait that do work just got to find them militaryhire.com is a great place to start

As a contractor you will not be armed and will not be allowed to be armed other then a knife unless you are x special forces and can get on with a security job protecting diplomatic people they pay well but they do loose some every year

 

You don't have enough experience to get on one of those jobs, anyhow. I applied with KBR in 06... six months later, they got back to me. By that time, I was the proud owner of a flashy Ford LTL9000 and Ravens end dump trailer... kinda committed at that point, so I had to decline.
At the time, they required a minimum three years experience, and the jobs were even starting to dry up at that point... even when I was doing my tour, we began seeing a shift from US, UK, Australian, and Western European nationals getting these contracts to Eastern Europeans (lots of Bosnians), Pakistanis, etc.
And it's not like we're going to do anything about Crimea except some saber rattling, so don't expect anything to come up right away. But, given the history the nation and our foreign policies, you probably won't have to wait too much longer, although I suspect they'll be much more low key about the use of civilian contractors and more apt to put foreign nationals in these slots than they were for OEF and OIF.

 

at the start of conflicts its like 90% us contracts and as it goes on they use more tcn and Ln but if you have a clearance its pretty easy to get a contract even if its in a field you don't have any experience in I worked in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan contracting and about half the people I worked with did not have mos or job training but they were willing to go and were prior military

 

I've done 3 tours between Iraq and Afghanistan, woulda been more if I didn't get stuck recruiting... I thought long and hard about it, but I wouldn't drive there only because I'm not allowed to protect myself. It's bad enough running around in a fully armored vehicle and worrying about running over an IED, but the trucks they got there, if you're lucky, will only have thin armor around the cab, nothing underneath ya and that's what will get you. With a family, to me it ain't worth it.

 

why look to overseas jobs for trucking...there is plenty of good paying dangerous jobs right here...besides, I spent two tours driving crap all over that sandtrap, couldn't pay me enough to do it as a civillian and what the civ drivers did get you can make as a well driller or some other similar type work...I mean, unless you just like the sand...and IED's....

 

Why leave the USA? If your looking for good money in a hazardous environment then go to the oil fields. North Dakota, Texas, Oklahome, Pennsylvania to name a few. You wont NEED to be armed unless the locals start giving you a hard time in which case you can always quit and go to work for another company working a different area of the oil patch.