Should I become a trucker

Most of them would want you to have some experience and not have to take time to train you. TO get the experience it may take u enough time the boom be over.


If you not viewed the mess it is up in ND Oil Towns go to youtube. No home No place to sleep traffic worst than NYC

 

At least your getting an honest opinion here. Your best bet if you want to be a driver of an oil fire.....oops i meant field is to join a company get trained, get that experience. I started by myself, now i have to do these 3 years OTR and get experience to drive for anyone. If you go into any oil related driving job, even if its used recycled oil asking for a job with no experience they will give you the stinky eye lol. Then you have to worry about someone like me, with alil of experience comming in over your head and taking that same job that your so excited for..........dont worry bro i dont want any part of your side of trucking lol High pay Trucking jobs are hard toget and are usually full and if they are empty its for a reason.

 

Is it an hourly position? Might want to make sure. If you have to log your day, chances are it's by the load or mile pay. in which case, OT rules do not apply. We all work OTR and put in 70 hrs a week, and have never once seen anything that resembles Overtime pay...Maybe something paid over time...but not overtime.

If it IS an hourly position, THen maybe I should look into it myself. lol

 

there is a thread on here about someones experience in the oil fields.

 

hey, 9...me too! i sooo disagree with the public school system...i decided back in 2006 to not renew my contract and never looked back!

 

I wasn't a teacher but I have all the respect in the world for them. I worked in the media and after leaving the field tried my hand at teaching ... for a VERY short period. Didn't take me long to decide I should go back to trucking, something I enjoyed way back when. Be safe out there.

 

oh, don't do that) even a horse can get a degree today. colleges are the new bubble. so, unless its engineering or md or some software programming (the right kind too, not just any) new graduates with mba are not marketable. while you can earn income with your cdl, it takes networking or established family business or luck with internship to get anything decent for a college kid. some mba don't even include any practical skills, such as accounting. people just take general subjects like marketing and other "talkology" one can pass without ever opening a book.
the very fact that a recent college graduate is looking for a blue collar job must tell you something.
if you must have a degree there's always phoenix online. those tests you can pass just by using google. i've seen that done! and, hey! it might be a tax write off...as entertainment)))

 

Yes the market is flooded with those that have a degree, some have been watered down.....and it is also inundated with those that can't get a job without one.....

But, all things being equal, if one is looking for any job, I would rather have a degree than not. Many careers still require one just to have enough points to get past the computer screening to get..... an interview. I see young men and woman at home that do not have a high school education or a college degree, and it is for the most part, nothing but odd jobs....

I have tried to impress the importance of having one to my 3 children and wife, as in life, almost everything can be taken away or lost. One can loose their health, job, marriage, and maybe even freedom, but no one.... can ever.... take away a degree or the knowledge that one has attained.

The only countries that are pulling out of 3rd world status today, are countries where education has been impressed. The US by the way is faltering. In world competitions, we rarely even place in the top spots anymore. Many countries are producing far more engineers than this country.

So, yes, I do not.... have a degree, but I hope that we do not get to the place in this great land where education is denegrated.......



"And the offer still stands. John 3:16"

 

No no no no