would being a certified welder help with job possibilities?

sealiftcommand website; they would probably love to hire you.

Welding certificates probably wouldn't help in truck driving jobs.

There's some very good companies that will hire you from CDL school if you have endorsements; hazmat/tanker plus TWIC and a passport.

Here's some good companies; start the applications as early as the first day of CDL school classes:

SVTN
Superior Carriers
Trimac Transportation
Tidewater Transit
CTL Transportation
Schneider Bulk

All these companies hire new CDL graduates even if the website has different.

 

Since you said you were willing to relocate- if you have your CDL and are a certified welder, your skill set would be in high demand in the oilfields of North Dakota. You would be a huge resource to one of the oilfield services companies there.

 

Just for the sake of knowing, call this company in North Dakota. They are the top one there.
Mitchell's Oilfield Service
Www.mitchellsoilfield.com

See what they say. Ask about pay and housing for your skill set. Good luck to you.

 

Forget trucking. Pipeline welder you'd be high dollar.

 

I have a friend there now welding. 50 an hour when when talking, 300 an hour doing a hot tap. Crazy money. But if you screw up that hot tap- uh oh.

 

Yea no tolerance. Or you could be a teamsters. But mistakes are not acceptable either. Good luck. Ive got a pipeline to build.

 

i dunno about that, i worked a union pipeline repair job as a teamster, and the guy i worked with that travelled with the company said that in big pipeline areas, you could just about walk onto the jobsite, ask the foreman, and get hired, if they need hands... the problem comes from there not being a seniority list at the hall for random pipeline and construction jobs anymore, most guys just work for one company, and thats it....

 

Actually you don't need to know anyone ... you need to show up there and ask if they have work.

When I went out to Texas to look around, I went to one company asking about O/O opportunities and I mentioned I did some welding, the shop foreman asked to see my work (it was posed on my friend’s website at the time) and they wanted me to work right then and there but I wasn't going to do that work in the shape I was in at that time. I'm an ok welder but not good enough to me to be doing it as a job.