New Career ... From the beginning.

Yeah, they do flower runs. My husband brought home a Prime Floral trailer on his 34 this weekend. Make no mistake, the girls and I miss him a lot. But his FM did manage to set him up for a reset at home for FarmGirl's birthday. Tyson wasn't so co-operative. In fact, it is due to a fellow Prime driver who offered to switch trailers (said driver had to take his 10 anyway and with permission from BOTH FMs) that enabled him to see her ON her birthday. Now he's running a tight route to Springfield, MA...and again Tyson didn't help matters any . I'm thinking about boycotting Tyson. Not that it would help much.

JCW and I have been married for 12 years. He missed our anniversary and my birthday (those are 6 days apart). But we have made it through some really hard times before, but we made a commitment at the time we got married, and agreed there was only ONE dealbreaker. Everything else can be gotten through with communication. Cell phones, Skype, email, texting, these things can make the separation easier.

 

I want the gold runs, I may have to take a detour....

 

Hey Mark,
I see that you have begun your driving training. Good for you! I know you will do well and I think that the instructors there at Sage are good instructors.
BTW, I am the guy that sat behind you at school, Rob. I havent started with my driver training yet, I start in a couple of weeks.
I hope to see more of your post on your success at Sage and at your potential new career!!!!
Take care and good luck!

 

Actually mark, James my middle name lol.
Bill and I start our driver training on the 28th of Nov. Our road test is on the 6th of Dec so they have me scheduled to drive 8hrs for 3 of the days. I cant wait to go and get it done lol.
I really dont know who I would like to drive for. Since I will have NO experience, I would imagine that I will have to drive for a big company, but with these horror stories you read on here, that is a tough decision. Was thinking about USA Trucks or US Xpress but after reading what I have, Im not sure about considering them, but I dont know what all else is out there. Schneider seems like a good bet but Im not sure if they have anything for me. I dont want a regional or a dedicated run and last I looked, thats all they had for this area. I would prefer to go OTR but I dont want to get screwed by werner, swift, cr england or the rest that have bad names, so as of right now, my decision is up in the air lol.

 

...yes, like many here, am coming into trucking late in life. expect to pay dues and be committed to learning how to be good driver. starting class soon, hope to have cdl by end of year & hired 1st of next year. know i have a lot to learn and proving myself.