Wrong time to start trucking?

Well, I have ran into a few more snags. My incompetent WIA case manager never sent over the paperwork for my heavy equipment class. So when I went to make sure that I was in the class that starts this monday, no one has heard of me. Of course the class is full now so I have to wait till April 6th if I still want to do it. Meanwhile, I have been throwing out applications for a truck job and you already know how thats going. TMC is sending my application over to the review board today and I'm supposed to call back tomorrow to find out the results. CT and McElroy said they might start hiring in March. DM Bowman said they only want experienced drivers for right now. I never had any intentions of going with TMC but if that is all there is what are you going to do. Not that I think they are a bad company, I just don't know if they are the right company for me. Here is a good way to sum up the economy. There are 6 pizza delivery drivers where I work, three of us have Class A CDL's.

 

Well, I'm going to revive my dying thread to those that care. I turned down TMC's March 2nd orientation and now realize that may have been a mistake. I have exhausted all other leads and have came up with only about 5 companies that are even taking students. TMC, Trans-Am, Werner, Roehl, USA truck. I'm not even that sure on Roehl. I just didn't feel that I searched enough to feel comfortable about jumping head first into TMC but I would say they are the best pick out there. I may check back with them if nothing else pops up. I have a local lead but I think they are trying to put me in the warehouse instead of in the truck. Its a class B position so its not like I can't drive the truck, its even an automatic. I went ahead and knocked out the hazmat so I will have a class A with an X endorsement. I am the most decorated pizza guy out there at this point I think. Well, to sum it up I asked "Wrong time to start trucking?". It comes back a resounding YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That was the vibe I was getting. Any jobs I do see posted want experience so it felt like a waste of time to me. I thought it would be helpful knowing enough to run the equipment to load and unload it but its not worth 6 more weeks of not having a real job. Good luck at TMC, my classmate that went said he was impressed so far.

 

I don't think I would have any issues. I ran a CAT back-hoe for a while at a golf course I worked at. I never got a chance to run the back-hoe part, just the front bucket. I picked it up pretty fast, I could pick people up with the bucket without killing them,lol. Like I said before, it just feels like a waste of time. Would a trucking company not hold that time against my cdl though? I was thinking about that. With the economy being bad and people worrying about their cdl going stale I thought if you could say you were in school they wouldn't hold that time against you. Who knows.