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Um go back orange and go tankers. Chicago is a better place for employment in trucking. You could do something that pays less with less stress like JB Hunt. Talk to your old boss and see if he would hire you to dollar general again?


Job hopping it's all up to the employer.

Personally you need another 4 months. You need the time. The money will come later.

 

Can you do dollar general for three months and move sideways in Snider to tankers? With out moving. Call a tanker recruiter. Tell him you will stay out far a month. See if that will change anything.


Hmm. Drive down to Odessa Midland Texas ask around. A lot of Texas companies like vets.

2 months for your prints to come back?

 

Here we go again, another expert.

Look dude, you are a driver, and my advice to you is to be a driver. Focus on you and your driving for a few years at one company, not three or four, or be a ping pong. Become an asset, not a commodity or a liability.

Whether you like it or not, there are changes coming to how drivers are going to be in the future. With 2.1 million estimated CDL holders out there (I would say 1/3 don't even use it), there is a lot of room for improvement. This is the second most common job; retail is number one by three times.

Right now the trends are going toward this shift because of the problems that cheap labor and crap drivers have caused. Many of the problems are because FMCSA/US DOT will not tighten up on the education of the drivers; it is so easy to get a CDL, the exams are simple, the road test is a joke, so you just have to breathe, and they hand a CDL to you.

The outcome of ALL OF THIS is really simple - the insurance companies that run this entire industry will set the limits for the drivers, and they will welcome automation with open arms, with fewer liabilities.

Once this starts, people will not be able to use this as a rescue method in their lives; they either work towards a CDL and earn it like an electrician or plumber, or they will not be able to drive.

I will repeat what I said, so listen carefully, you are a driver, and my advice to you is to be a driver. Focus on you and your driving for a few years at one company, not three or four, or be a ping pong. Become an asset, not a commodity or a liability.

 

Lol.....you did flatbed with Western, handling those big ### tarps, and you went to Florida I believe, with then, you made it out of there without turning into liquid lol. You're Chicago tough man.....go ahead and call back the big pumpkin and burn up those highways man. When you do, keep your head down and run the miles. It's important to block out the noise, or els you’ll become the miles. It'll all fall in line

 

It’s a dry heat man lol. But. 110 is 110. I worked in 110 out in west tx and it’s no picnic.