Con-Way Freight or UPS?

There's always going to be some tares sewn in with the wheat.

 

Hey, jakebrake12, I second what you said about Harvey bringing good information to the board. What a resource!

And, to answer your question, not yet. However, I have made a move - figured it would be wise to get a foot in the door of UPS by becoming a driver helper mostly for looks on the resume (work hard and get them to like me) and to see what the package car drivers do (in case I choose to go that route to feeders). Now, I need to do more research on feeder drivers and what they do (a day in the life), what it takes, driver opinions, etc. It's been slow-going at browncafe getting information and advice from the feeder drivers themselves (they must be busy, go figure). For such a life-changing career I want to know 100% what the options are and what I'm getting myself into without having to look back a couple years down the road and saying something like, "Man, I should've done it this way instead of that way." Slow and steady. Next step will be to actually go to Louisville to talk to the folks at UPS Freight as well as the folks at the main feeder hub (wherever that is). It seems easy to find a Freight hub location online, but the feeder hubs are elusive. Con-Way seems like a decent gig, but the best terminal is two hours away and I've been told to stay away from the next closest one at Edinburg, Indiana. UPS seems more to my liking and a big feeder terminal is "only" an hour away (somewhere) in Louisville, KY. There's also a UPS Freight terminal there. Besides, there's a very, very, small terminal even closer than those, but it would probably take forever to work my way up the ladder at that location.

 

Starting today, I'm going to start saving in a jar in order to be able to go to trucking school. It's going to take a while to save up $4000 plus gas money (or hotel money) since the PTDI-certified school is two hours away. It's Sage trucking school. What's nice about them is that their education takes longer than the non-PTDI-certified class (more in depth?), lasting about four weeks, and they only take students out one at a time in the tractor-trailers.

Psst... Someone over at browncafe gave a description of what the feeder drivers do. Hope it won't take 20 years to do it in Louisville.

http://www.browncafe.com/forum/f6/feeder-drivers-341544/index3.html#post910051