Looking for "Experienced Drivers Advice"

If you're hourly and get paid overtime and home everynight?? Just think you quit that job and all of these companies you mentioned will probably have 500 people looking to take that job you left.
It's about the money and if you can make it local then my advice would be accept the challenge of tight places, loading and unloading equipment unless it pays minimum wage or something.
System? I know when I was out there on the road and always seen System Trans. trucks they were slow and always hauling tarped loads of lumber.
Things are winding down in Alaska with the oil boom in the Bakken and the oil sands out of Alberta.
That Ice Road Truckers show is so fake it's not even funny. They couldn't even to come up with a REAL documentary about REAL trucking and the low pay and bullstuff you have to put up with. At least you are familiar with the city streets you travel. Wait until you have to or must take that load to Jersey City New Jersey or L.A they promised you would never go to. Trust me it will happen or else.
Good luck with whatever choice you make and I'm just throwing my 2 cents out there.

 

I wanted to drive with a Chimp in my truck "On my way to Dallas My Wheels Provide My Palace..."
I notice the small details of these shows like the different wheels on a trailer or lights on their truck.
It reminds me of the old J.B ads in the trucker mag's that show that Condo Cabinover crossing the high altitude bridge in the mountains. They didn't dare show you in Brooklyn lost in a traffic jam on friday afternoon past your appointment time did they.

 

What they promise-------> What you get--------->

 

Sounds like a pretty good goal! The waiting list maybe a little long at Carlisle though. They probably get upwards of a thousand apps a day! Make sure you have your ducks in a row and know what you are doing before attempting.

Good luck man, maybe we'll see you on tv one day!

 

The Carlisle drivers running the haul road are punks. Well not all, but a fair portion of them. I've run with them and all that garbage about "everybody helps everybody out here" is a load of poop. You're lucky to even get one of them to respond on the CB let alone pull off to see why your hood is up. Maybe it has changed but back in the early 2000's that's what it was like when I ran it.

That said, follow your dream. Grandpa always said: "Do what you love and figure out how to make money doing it".

Good luck mate.

 

The Dalton ice road,sounds pretty dull and borring. Have ya thought of what your going to do,when your not putting across the ice. I hauled all kinds of over sized loads in all 48 states and Canada in 89 when I started, I didn,t think it was a big deal. Driving fast on a frozen lake when your 10 yrs old in a 62 biscane is fun, a 18 wheeler going 20mph on a lake is not. If you want a challenge, move to Chicago and drive the railyards, that job impresses the chics or at least you see them.haha Good Luck to ya

 

try ATS anderson trucking service