Career change to trucking

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Thickeyd, Jan 24, 2019.

  1. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Calling @Chinatown!!!

    This one will relish a challenge getting you into that line of work, if that is what will make you happy. You should be so lucky to get into it. The money should take care of itself whatever it adds up to.
     
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    I still have a senior level access to classified national secrets. The NSA know me by first name. This has helped me get into most shippers.
     
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    I guess we all have moments like that! Trading one challenge for another. If I wanted the easy way I would work for the government....
     
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    NOAA winter storm warning, pending blizzard conditions State College-Milton PA Accumulations two feet expected. Visibility zero drifts, travel not recommended, life threatening conditions at 5 degrees, windchills towards -30

    KEWL. With a 8% upgrade ahead of you at 7 Mountains Grade 5 miles of joy. (PA US 322)No chain either. Get going, yer late. You cannot waste anymore time.
     
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    I live in Virginia no one can drive around here with 2 inches of snow, I couldn't imagine 2 feet....
     
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    Come out west sometime if you havent already. Get that cruddy east coast crap cleared out of your soul. Winters are awesome, springtime so good and the summers are made for legends.
     
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    I worked in Bremerton Washington for 5 months, and San Diego for 7. Never going back to Washington if I can help it, it rained everyday! San Diego was nice though
     
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    Well I don't know the situation at Hanford Station above I-84 Oregon Stateline in the area known as the Dalles in south central Washington (At the Border with Oregon more or less on the Columbia River) in what is essentially no where. They made weapons there. Now having trouble eliminating that waste.

    Seattle it aint, I can guarantee you that.

    Other installations like the Rocky in Colorado is nothing but a field having been retired, decommissioned and eliminated over these past 30 years.

    I know a little bit about nuclear because PA was with the electric outfit in Baltimore Calvert Cliffs, Peach Bottom and TMI comes to mind for me. Otherwise it's Conowingo for hydropower and other places. I prefer not to deal with it myself. Ive got my own troubles enough.
     
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    I actually work for the company that builds all the nuclear aircraft carriers, and half the nuclear subs. Don't know anything about powerplants or weapons, but I imagine much of it is similar
     
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    Ok then it's Norfolk and up the york and james rivers, they got a few goodies hidden away up there. You already probably know about that.

    But trucking? Hmm... what can it be done to get you out here on the road related to that work. Maybe you talk to a driver that comes onto your workplace sometime who seems to be put together, clean and relatively alert... with a decent tractor etc.

    I used to run into Norfolk Navy Base long ago, unrelated to shipbuilding but delivered basic stuff like roofing materials for the navy buildings and so on. They needed a awful lot of it then. Nothing too fancy.
     
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