New dude with training wheels.....

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  1. Nov 24, 2011 #1
    mickeyrat

    mickeyrat Road Train Member

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    Hello all. Should be studying pretrip right now. Testing tomorrow.

    Have always been drawn to trucks. Am finally in a position to do this. Now we'll see if it really is for me.

    Am leaning toward a smaller outfit hauling steel. Have 4 prehires out of school (roadmaster). Leaving Swift as the fallback #4 choice. They say they will honor the prehire.
     
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  3. Nov 24, 2011 #2
    Allow Me.

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    Welcome to the forum....
     
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  4. Nov 24, 2011 #3
    American-Trucker

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    if you dont mind unloading, check out Watkins Shepard we have a terminal in Austintown, OH




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  5. Nov 24, 2011 #4
    Cudascious

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    You dont unload all the time do you American Trucker? Do you pull a reefer or drybox only? Looks like a drybox there in your pic. I imagine a 13'6" drybox?
     
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  7. Nov 24, 2011 #5
    American-Trucker

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    we unload 60% of the time (only the LTL Furniture Loads). We pull dry vans but do have a few Reefers too. We also have a Flat Bed Devision.




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  8. Nov 25, 2011 #6
    Cudascious

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    Thats cool. WS seems like a pretty solid company. I had to help unload some unpalletized pine trees at a costco once, had a rash for a week. Once in a great while I haul a nursury load out of washington or oregon, the one in oregon makes a rainforest inside my reefer with plastic and 2x4's. What a mess. lol
     
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  9. Nov 25, 2011 #7
    Lilbit

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    Welcome to the party!
     
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  10. Nov 25, 2011 #8
    mickeyrat

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    ####, squeeked by my backing skills and readily passed the road test and pretrip. 2 interviews on Monday. We'll see whats what. Oh yeah, in the meantime I need to take and pass the written hazmat. Already set with HS/TSA.
     
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