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Hi There GDog, Nice to meet you. I just want to say that, entering into the truck driving world is not easy. It takes quite awhile to get from the crawling stage, to the running stage. Like You, my 2 sons worked on dairy farms for years when they were young driving farm trucks and pea viners. As time went on, they got jobs delivering appliances, and furniture for Macys, then for a local bottled water company. Then the boys got an offer from a logging company to drive log trucks from up in the mountains to the mills.I will tell you what, IN A VERY SHORT TIME YOU BECOME A VERY SKILLFUL DRIVER. Its very different that driving cross country with a load of freight. The windy, narow switchback roads, would turn anyones hair white, When your going down the hairpins, with a ton of unforgiving logs, beaks heat up, and you can see daylight between your tires and the road, you will pee your pants!!! Theres only one way out, and that is down...How you get there, is your problem.
My mothers side of the family were all loggers and T.drivers so hearing all about the woods and the toll it can take if you blink wrong, I am very savy about this subject..
Well after time, and all the tears of fear I shed waiting for a unwelcome phone call, they decided, to take their savings and go through Trucking school and stop makeing me sick with worry. They went through it together and got their certifications, licenses and their haz-mats and went on the road. My youngest sons best friend, had a couple of dump trucks and they started hauling gravel and yard materials. Then His other friend, Bought a couple of trucks and trailer (end dumps) and Started hauling powdered milk from the farms up by the canadian border to seattle piers to a big ship and back, and that was the best job my son ever had. No stress and home by 5 each night.His wife and 2 children sure loved having daddy home for dinner. Rest of the story in a little bit.

 

Welcome G-Dog

 

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Hey G-Dog...welcome aboard!

Sounds like you're a pretty determined guy and that's great. Glad to have you here, there's lots of students here too.