Wondering About You Truckers' Previous Careers

Join'd the Army at 17...for 11 years.
Tank Commander...w00t!

Worked at NASA right out of electronics school..just under a year,then Pres.Bush number 1, cut the funding and The GI bill paid for truck driver school.

 

Went army out of highschool, had a break in service started to drive in late 94 in 97the went army again left in 2001 drove otr again went into the army in 03 until 07 was a bouncer then started to drive again then became a fleece operator lost every thing went back to company driving bought a truck and will be going o/o in april.

 

High school student. Pretty much a teenage bum before starting driving back in 1999, being broke and unemployed may have been a better life

 

Cdl at 19 trucking at 20 in state. Think I washed dishes for bit after high school. No trucking school ether did it hard way meet my wife at 19 her dad drove he let me play with the truck on there property study the dmv book paid 150 bucks for road test.

 

United States Navy Seabees. We build, We fight. We might through a party or two in there at times.

 

Shipping clerk, Los Angeles, suitcase factory
Packer-helper moving company- West Texas
Ditto- Rio Grande Valley
Galvanizer-millhand City Of Industry Cal
Contract driver- moving and storage, about four different companys
Delivery driver UPS (package driver)
Company driver for a corrugated (cardboard) manufacturer
Company driver - flatbed outfit
My own authority OO flatbeds
Presently retired, wishing I had it to do all over again.

 

Wow some of you have had some interesting careers, I started as an industrial mechanic/straight truck driver right out of high school, then I got my class A cdl. All the men in my family on my dads side were truck drivers and or owner operators so I've been in trucks since before I could remember, guess I fell right into place.

 

I have over 20 years in social services; US Army and US Army Reserve veteran; 4 years customer service representative work; 6 months as an insurance adjuster and 6 months in sales. Growing up I did farm work as well as construction.

 

Navy, Submarine Service, Navigation Electronics Technician, 6 Years

Police Officer, 25 Years

 

I started out of high school learning to drive a truck with the old man. Got offered a fulltime position as a firefighter/emt, jumped off the truck and went to work. Then I joined the Army as a Medic, served in Iraq, got wounded and retired. Got out and decided to take up trucking like my old man had taught me. Tried to get back in the fire service but my injuries still linger and prevent me from working full time (I am still proud to have been a soldier and would do it over again in a heartbeat).

I am happy being on the road and driving my truck.