experienced trucker question

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by navywill, Jul 27, 2014.

  1. navywill

    navywill Light Load Member

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    What is something that you didn't know that you wish someone would have told you before you started in this business?
     
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  3. xsetra

    xsetra Road Train Member

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    Every pay check/settlement, put 10% away for emergency funds. (Tickets, interest and penalties. Plane tickets, bus fare)
    This is in addition to your maintenance fund.
     
  4. BrenYoda883

    BrenYoda883 Road Train Member

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    I know for me I did a lot of e
    research and preparing before I went to school... so I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into... I knew that the first year or two could be and would be bumpy...

    If anything took me by surprise it would that I really didnt figure on getting hit on so much... I had two male trainers that just got wierd and wanted to get married and run team... and neither took rejection well...

    Now, it wasnt because I am so e beaty gueen... it was more to do with their loneliness... which, to me is so ethi g the men have a harder time with then the females...
     
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  5. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    Hassles would become more, difficulty in the job would become more, and pay would go backwards (or remain stagnant at best) ... Would have been better off as a traveling carnival ride operator.
     
  6. Mountain Hummingbird

    Mountain Hummingbird Medium Load Member

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    That trucking companies hire dispatchers on some government program where if they hire the mentally challenged the government will pay 1/2 their wages.
     
  7. HotH2o

    HotH2o Road Train Member

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    I wish someone would have told me that truck stops smell like outhouses.
     
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  8. joesmoothdog

    joesmoothdog Heavy Load Member

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    That God is somebody else's co-pilot.:biggrin_25525:
     
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  9. Criminey Jade

    Criminey Jade Road Train Member

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    Waiting 3 weeks for your first paycheck is very very hard when you're not living at home.
     
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  10. navywill

    navywill Light Load Member

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    What company made you wait 3 weeks?
     
  11. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    Take full advantage of the pension plan offered. I've seen guys spend their whole working life trucking and in the end have only social security to live on.
     
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