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Danny Herman Trucking - Welcome to DHT
https://dannyherman.com
Terminal in Nogales, AZ
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Knight Transportation | Home
www.knighttrans.com
Knight has a good refresher course. Refrigerated and dry van.
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Company Drivers | Drive Freymiller | Paid Orientation ...
https://drive4freymiller.com/company-drivers
Go to website and click on "Restore Program"
"Restore Program" is probably right for you.
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Old Dominion Freight Line Inc
Local Service

• Directions
• Website

• Address: 135 S 79th Ave, Tolleson, AZ 85353
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OK so you know the game already. no need to delve into the crap.

So you want to drive autos, OK no biggie.

BUT this no confidence crap has to go.

See while you say you lack it, you have it. You are double guessing yourself but here is the important thing, you drove people around with them depending on you to deliver them safely, people with no confidence don't do that.

I would have done one of two things, stuck with it instead of going to further my education OR I would never have returned to it to fill the gaps to pay the bills.

Don't get me wrong, I have an excellent education and it far superior to the education you get today, but really all it is doing for me right now is providing a better hobby to enjoy - Electronics/designing and making 3d things/writing about history.

I would do the same exact thing as I did in the past - be or work for an owner operator. I worked as a company driver a few times and then this last round I was a temp driver and tackled a lot of different trucks and situations.

Quite honestly people who are in this for the money as if it was just a job, these are the ones who don't give a crap and it shows.

Why?

It is something I really enjoy.

Nothing like driving a narrow mountain road with no guardrail and looking down 300 feet out your window.

I am an Ahole to many, so I don't get it, why worry about it?

This is the way of the world and it isn't anything personal.

Well here is the thing, we have mostly children in this industry, many don't know how to act with others and don't get how to treat people in general.

Just look around, anywhere now, you see these adult children doing a lot of jobs that they shouldn't be allowed to do.

I have one who started to work for me a couple months ago. He is constantly crying about crap, in a brand new truck, has a new trailer, and has milk runs with one customer who has the nicest people on the docks and in the office. He has a lot of time to do the run, makes really good coin but he is still crying that the job is too hard, the customer is mean and so on. This guy is 61 and he claims he has been driving since 80 but he doesn't remember what it was like back in '80. I have a few like this, but I just tolerate them.

 

Check out Cardinal Logistics.

 

Stay away from the megas. Nothing but micromanaging bs and no respect for a driver. They'll treat you like you're some dumb ### 20yr old. You'll also be out for weeks at a time with any of them.

Trucking isnt a hard job, but it can be stressful at times. Not being micromanaged really reduces that stress though.

Nothing scares me about this job minus the other idiots on the road. But runnin truck is something that takes 100% focus whenever you're behind the wheel.

Being on the road for me is a lot of fun. I like being alone, going different places (although I run regional). If I didn't have a family I'd be on the road runnin freight everywhere for weeks at a time.

If you want to do more than hold a steering wheel, check out companies like Melton, Maverick, TMC. They're flatbed companies that train. To me its a much more rewarding job, you get treated better and you're not constantly going from dock to dock to dock.

 

I've been a lot of bad about KAG. They recently started pulling cng tanks around me. Haven't heard anything good about em

 

I encountered my first ever wrong way driver in Salt Lake City recently. Three lanes and I was in the far right lane. Traffic was light and thankfully the wrong way driver was in what they thought to be the far right lane (which was actually wrong way in the hammer lane).

As an aside, many years before I ever drove a truck I was headed south on what was then i-540 in Bentonville, Arkansas and noticed a car attempting to enter the freeway going the wrong way by driving up an exit ramp. I managed to aim my car at them and get them stopped and turned around before they ever made it onto the freeway.