Looking For Flatbed Company To Train With

Boyd Bros. Trucking has cdl school in Birmingham,AL
Meals, lodging provided and $400.00 a week advance pay.
$1000.00 minimum guaranteed pay weekly after graduation.

 

anything in peticular that makes you think this?? Ive worked in the oil field hauling crude for the last 5 years, but rates are falling and I sware I worked less OTR flatbed, and i'm thinking of going back, but part of me is also thinking i'm an idiot and should just be happy with my pay. I net 13-15 a week, i know i'll make less otr but doing the same thing over and over every day on the same roads is killing me. not to mention breathing the H2S.

 

They say that breathing too much H2S causes one to post too much on internet forums.

 

I am just going by what I read on here, and I take a lot of it with a grain of salt, but I have been out of the otr for a little over 10 years, and I know for a fact some of it was changing for the worse back then,
I would say go for it, if that is what you want to do. I doubt you make the same money, but for sure it is a lot easier work.
I used to really enjoy the way I ran otr, but anymore I don't think it would work for me. I only have one reason to ever run one more trip south anyway, may or may not try to get that done this winter.

If you have been oilfield trucking, and relocating is an option, you may check and see if you can get on with one of the big outfits up here. It is just as dangerous or more so than hat you are used to but no bad gas to breath, kind of old style trucking and better money than you are used to now. If all rumors are correct we will be busy at least all winter.

 

you know, I turn 39 on Wednesday, Odins day,
i have no wife or kids, I got a harly road glide, a r1200gs, a ford f250 with 410hp, a 40ft rv that is nice, and i'm still a miserable f--k, i've been watching youtube videos that some otr guys are posting, and I miss spending 8-10 hours just driving like through utah, us93, northern cali, north west, 53 through oklahoma, nobody to bother me, just the stereo, audio books and cigars. if you pointed a gun at my head I'd tell you to pull the trigger. but there is a wussie in me that is worried about the pay cut and the safty and security of being in a small town making good money, and thats why i asked the question.

i'm sick of waking up at the same time every day to do the same thing again. when I was a kid, my parents took us on a vacation soley for civil war stuff because thats what my dad loved. i did reinactments with him and loved it. we went to ride some horses and there was only 7 people, my parents, my sister, me and 3 others, and 9 horses lined up, I was only 7 at the time, I asked the horse guy why the other horses got in line, he said they've done it so many times he could smack them on the ### and they would do the trail on their own and come back. maybe i'm an emotional puss, but that always stuck with me. because I remember petting them and they didnt notice.

i'm not looking at otr for the money, I have that, i'm a unique american in that my debt is small i make it up when i talk to people so I sound normal, i miss every day being different, for better or for worse, i miss it being different. and otr provides that. its like giving yourself up to Gods will.

right now typing this, I have a couple drinks in me, but without wife or kids I can see things that other normal guys can't. I have the toys, I have the freedom, i have the money and it all means nothing.....
plowing the same field every day like a slave working for money will lead you to die like a slave who has plowed the same field working for money.
at least OTR provides a higher level of slavery, different problems to think about, keeps you on the edge, the same way the military does. like being in a flowing river as opposed to a stagnant pond.

I am thinking about the worse OTR offers, like chicago, Los Angeles, denver, canada, san diego, and yet looking back at my 5 years OTR compared to my local driving, I feel I experienced more more life, for better and for worse while OTR. what we suffer is sometimes all we remember in life.
two you tube channels, "academy fo ideas" and "like stories of old"

what is the point of life, is it to plow the same field every day???
married guys don't ask themselves this because their to busy with the problems their obligated to pay attention too.
I'm tired, i'm looking to go otr just to see what happens

 

@silinus vers In all my years, I've very few people that felt like they are making enough money regardless of vocation. Many of those "chasing the dollar" are/were absolutely miserable. At some point, the realization that money doesn't buy happiness sets in and they make a choice (or wallow in the depression).

If what you are doing doesn't make ends meet, then make do with fewer ends. A simpler life is often more rewarding in ways money can't buy. I know a guy that has a wife and two kids (one with special needs) and he is the sole provider of the household. He drove for FedEx for a number of years and recently had some health issues come up that didn't take him out of the driver's seat, but did make him decide to find another avenue of making a living so he could be home more. He makes considerably less money, but he has more time with his family and they are all happier as a result. It hasn't necessarily been an easy adjustment for them, but they have made it work and are doing well.

Do what makes you happy. If the oil field work isn't the ticket and OTR is, then go for it. Since you don't have the constraints of what a marriage and family bring, the choice of what you decide only impacts you. And if you decide on OTR and that doesn't fit either, then there are other lanes, or even different careers out there.

And about the money... No matter how much money you make, there's not a single person anywhere that can buy back yesterday! Make the absolute most of today, because tomorrow is not guaranteed.

 

Didn’t read all posts, but well said.