Started Applying Yesterday

This is her current photo. I'll Private Message her contact information.

 

She doesn't drink or smoke. Works at one of the casino's and when she gets off work, she goes home; no partying after work. Owns a home, paid for, in Shanghai and sometimes goes there for vacation.

 

Yeah, she's soft-spoken and relatively quiet. No loud talking and keeps the conversation clean.

 

Chicago is a good area to work in. Personally I would do dry box(van) for six months then go to flatbed or tankers. I did van for nine months then hauled water in the oil field west Texas. It's hard to get job even the oil field with less than a years experience. But you being a vet, it might be easier.

 

Match-maker. Jobs and wives! Lol

 

Been successful at both, but not by design.

 

I agree.

I did 10k miles my first month and the checks did not warrant the work one single bit. (2500 miles of those 10k…..somehow unpaid and my trainer ran into the same issue out on the road with me, had to talk to people to fix it while I was driving, he was inches from quitting lol). P.s. it was never fixed

I went into this NOT focused on the money at all. However….lol…. being paid less than minimum wage while risking my life and busting my ### 70hrs…. for peanuts….is a whole nother story, there is a lot more to it then that though. If it was “just” a money issue, I probably would not have taken another job offer

Also, be careful of big orange. They have a sociopathic charm for new guys. I fell for it too.

 

I was previously successful getting hired by the "Big Orange"....even with a VER-RY LONG gap in my employment history....because:

• I already had a CDL in hand
• I already had ALL the relevant CDL endorsements: tanker, hazmat, & doubles-triples
• I already had a TWIC card
• I had (& still do) a clean driving record, & no criminal/drug history
• the job market then was MUCH BETTER -- plenty of freight for the available capacity, at that time

Given just how bad the current CDL job market is...especially for beginners....I would suggest holding off on submitting further applications....until you can show you already have the necessary credentials.

Being an Air Force vet is indeed a nice advantage -- but it isn't necessarily a magic carpet ride, either (with all due respect).

If you insist on avoiding nighttime CDL duty as much as possible -- stay away from refrigerated freight options (aka, "reefer" duty). You will be miserable there.

You will also want to avoid jobs hauling fuel -- and also, cryogenics.

The suggestion above to start out in dry van is worthy of further consideration.

Piloting a big rig is of course a lot of responsibility; you want to learn to do it right, from the very start.

Beginning your career in dry van lets you focus on the art of learning to drive a big rig -- first. Then you can get cute with those other skill sets, later: like flatbed, tanker, etc.

That's the way I did it; apparently @77fib77 did it that way, as well.

-- L