Just finished training with Werner

I understand where you are coming from, but the unemployment rates for engineers can be rather insane. Some fields have over 20% unemployment. Industrial engineering is one of the very few that had worse unemployment than nutritionists or art students. Its crazy. Art students are in the low double digits... industrial and architecture degrees are significantly higher.

The issue is that a truck driver can get a job with just about anybody, in any location, at any time. A lot of engineering students cant get jobs because they want a year of experience... so they get locked out of their own fields.

The median pay rates dont seem to be so good either... a whole quarter of them make less than I made my first year as a trucker... and 90% make less than what I make as a trainer...

http://www1.salary.com/Electrical-Engineering-Technician-I-Salary.html
http://www1.salary.com/Mechanical-Engineering-Technician-I-Salary.html
http://www1.salary.com/Industrial-Engineering-Technician-I-Salary.html

 

Yes, the problem with engineers or it people in USA is that there is a thing called H-1B VISA, thousand or if not millions of people are here from India and work for less and pull the wage scale down from what it was, also there is outsourcing where your job can go poof overnight, then you have to go back and start interviewing again often times standing inline with Indians or even interviewing with an Indian manager. It is a nightmare and such a different world compared to 1986 when I started in IT. I might go trucking soon and make less than I do now, but at least I wont be outsourced. But wait, there's more ! Now they want to bring in as many aliens as possible on both high and low ends of things or just about any profession, and ruin it all for native workers ! We are being screwed to the bottom by the Elitists of whatever party. Now they wrecked the health insurance and tons of people deseperate and without jobs
anyway, I hope someway we can work to improve the wages of truckers. they should be paid double what they make now. For Reference on IT jobs
checkout this website http://techinsurgent.com

 

Thanks for the updates, I'd say that's pretty accurate. I always try and get my students into dedicated.

 

Since you live in St. Louis you may want check out Averitt when you feel like making a move. You only need 3 mo experience and it's a great outfit. CPM is good, nice equipment with APU's, home weekends and they treat drivers great. I worked for them for a couple of years and loved it. I found a local job, but if I was going back to regional I'd go back to them on a heartbeat. Benefits are cheap also.

 

GOOD DEAL, yeah if you can handle it they surely have the loads to get those 4-Digit paychecks but you will be running your ### off.