Thank you.

Well I don't really deliver products that you normally would buy. I do however deliver products a contractor would buy, then carry into your house so that you will have electricity and natural gas. I also deliver products to the warehouse (for my dedicated account customer), that if you ever were to have a black out, your lights would come on automatically. I also deliver steel shelving for other businesses (the very same customer we have), these steel shelves you really would not have in your house. SO in an "off shoot way", I guess I do deliver "things" to your house, via another "delivery" person, that you DO USE every day! We deliver to the delivery point to you!


Thank you, for thanking us!

 

Very thoughtful PPan. Thank you!

 

Hi PPan, 1st, welcome aboard. Next, I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but if you enjoyed opening gifts with your kids on Christmas morning, if you go into trucking, there'a a good chance you can kiss that good-bye. I'm sure there's many driver's that were stuck in a truck stop, for whatever reason, and weren't there for Christmas. Do yourself and your kids a favor and DON'T go into trucking.

 

yep. Celebrated a xmas in a mcdonalds one year in San Antonio -- trucking brings out the worst situations sometimes

 

Your welcome!! Merry Christmas to you and your family

 

you CAN get local jobs with no experience if you go to a private CDL school. Can drive and be home every day

 

OK, first off, thanks for posting! Yes, the bills need to be paid, and if trucking is what you really WANT to do, then GO FOR IT. But don't be too quick to pass over the discouraging remarks. I don't know if you really KNOW anything about trucking, or if you have just seen TV and movies and think "It would be NEAT." If you don't know anything about it, please take the time to learn before tying yourself up with a big payment to a trucking school, or a contract that makes you pretty much an "indentured servant" for a year or two.

You need to understand that the vast majority of folks who invest in trucking school, are NO LONGER in trucking within a year! Not a good sign. OTOH, that may be because a lot of them are pretty flaky and can't hold any other type of job either. Or they are terribly immature, and cannot see that even though it is rough right now, it will get better.

We see so many newbies come on here and talk about not being able to get along with their trainer, or they have "the trainer from hell," or whatever. A lot of these guys jump the truck, (or are kicked off the truck by the trainer,) just because they "can't handle being cooped up blah, blah, blah. They don't realize that in just a few short weeks, they will have their own issued truck, and be out there without someone looking over their shoulder all the time. Sure, there are trainers from hell. Sure, there are "trainers" who are rookies themselves, and shouldn't be training anybody. And their are trainers that instead of training, you the trainee as a team driver.

But there is a lot of stuff in life that a person has to deal with, no matter what their job is. It takes common sense and maturity to just be able to live decently, raise, house, clothe and educate a family.

You may be gone on holidays, particularly for the first couple of years or so. OK, learn to deal with it by celebrating holidays when you can get home. America's service men and women have to fight this continually. So do workers whose jobs are not trucking, but still take them away from home a lot.

There are some very good things about trucking. Sure, the regs are getting tighter all the time, but there will (at least in the foreseeable future,) be a need for trucks and drivers. You just have to adapt.

I don't believe this is true. It used to be that you just would be hard pressed to find anybody that would hire you for a local gig, without a couple of years of experience. But more and more LTLs are taking folks right out of school. And starting wage, is starting wage.

The exception to that would be the driver that is working for a different area of the same company, and transferred into local work from a road job. I think most of us have seen this, or will see it. You work for a couple of years, and there are several new hires that came in under you. And suddenly you find yourself bumped out of a route, or out of a truck, because somebody with "seniority" transferred in from another division. (Pissed me off greatly when I got bumped out of a tractor I had just been promised because this happened, but it is life.)

There are so many types of trucking jobs out there, that I can't believe somebody won't be able to find one that fits them. Whether it be local, line haul, regional or long haul. Or specialized. Jobs are there. As long as you have a decent driving record, and a decent employment record you should be able to find something you can live with.

And if you can't, then you move on to something else.