Please help me find a path to reach my goals. Any advice is needed, and welcome!

Good plan!! You know, so many people aim personal goals low and hit them, and that is the problem. We should set out goals high and continue to strive to reach them. ........

God is great!!!

 

Allahu Akbar!!!!!

 

I'm still researching things:but

US Xpress--You might wanna consider that your trainers truck and your team truck will likely be an automatic tranny at this time ...Not a good way to start new IMHO..What happens if in 1-2 yrs you find some high paying gig for a team .. Except This company all they have is Eaton 10spds.. Re-train ?


Now if you learn and train on a 10 speed for example for a yr or so then find some other gig and all they happen to have is auto's I don't think it will be much of an issue..

Just Food for thought: it is the reason My wife and I will likely go with Con-way..

Mostly Standard Transmissions so far but that is also changing

About same pay

Can bank days off

have inverters in the trucks

allow a small dog..

my understanding also as long as you don't go out of route excessively like more than 10% they don't mess with ya..

 

Probably make more money teaming with Old Dominion, but USX is a good choice also.
Hazmat/tanker companies would be even better.

 

I'd go back to Tysons. You have to run the Extra board for awhile at OD before you can bid on a partner. Tysons would let you run Ar-Ca every week probably. Figure same run, know when you'd be home, moderate winter except Jan-Feb, plenty of miles and you know the rules already. They have good equipment so what's the catch? Fly on the days off to build time.

 

ODFL - run like snot and split north of $200k gross/year.

That's on 6000 miles a week/ 68cpm.

Your 15 year experience buddy will be in with a clean record, you'll need some experience. Worth checking out either way.

 

I'm no expert, but from my research. The helicopter field is saturated with noob pilots in debt, without a huge amount of jobs to take. Just saying. They say there is a demand, but that's for experienced pilots.

and by they I mean... Them.

 

Can I ask what you plan to do with your rotary ticket? There are so many pilots coming out of the military with tens of thousands of hours in some cases. Power line, logging, medevac, news, police, vip shuttle are all going to be snatched up by them long before someone out of flight school gets them. Best of luck just don't want you to be blindsided.

 

That goes for all civilian aviation jobs. You can't beat the experience you get in the military, you get more hours than you would in any civilian flight school.