New Career ... From the beginning.

If and when you switch to OTR, you'll find that your 70 hour clock plays a major role in your trip planning. Just remember that you must be sure that your dispatcher is aware of how much HOS you have available after you deliver.

When I finish a run, I always update my PTA so they know how many hours I have left. It's a good habit to get into.

 

If you feel that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity then take it. Trucking will always be there

 

Deep down you have already answered the question do what your heart says

 

Personally,
I think it would be lame if you quit. After all that you have accomplished, you are just now getting comfortable and able to give back to your employer, you wanna quit? What about all the time, money, and patience your employer put into you? If it was me, I would stay with them a good year or two even...just to pay my dues. I think it's disrespectful to just up and quit like that unless you are being mistreated, which, by the sounds of things, you are not. Schneider has been more than fair.
Just saying...I think it's a bad idea.
Bottom line....
I wish you the best in whatever you decide.

 

And another great read from first post to last....

I am so impressed with the dedication and perseverance by so many good folks on this forum. So much adversity - so many challenges - and you pick yourself up and keep moving forward. What an inspiration.

Congratulations on all you have accomplished Markus.

Go with your instincts on the radio vs/ trucking decision. No one can say you didn't give it your all no matter what you decide.

Best of luck,
Perpetual

 

Mark
no one but you knows the answer to the question about the job offer. It certainly could probably have NOT come at a 'worse' time for you when you are starting to get some comfort in your driving.

I learned a new saying recently when Dave and I kept saying to each other that things in our lives in the last 2 years have had a funny way of working out -how we met, how he happen to be driving for a company out of Ohio that had 3 drivers in Rochester, how he ended up in NY from Ohio etc.

You being Christian hopefully apprechiate this: "it's not odd, it's God.''

Best wishes in what ever decision you make!!

 

If you do go back to radiobe sure to tell us the station so when we are in your neck of the woods we can tune in.