Unhappy working at May Trucking

Plenty of trucking jobs; depending on what city you choose. New Mexico is good for tanker jobs. Mesilla Valley Transportation may still be headquartered in New Mexico, if they didn't move to Laredo,TX.; dry van outfit.

 

Texas is expensive. NM is for lack of a better word, dusty and Arizona has issues with illegals.

Take your pick.

If you are looking for a forever home, you can do better in greener places with water in plenty.

 

Tennessee isn't bad either

 

South Carolina is literally the cheapest state in the union to live in aside from Alaska (which has no state income or sales taxes at all). There is a huge volume of freight going through that state, too, and consequently a lot of good companies hire out of there.

 

You know dude, you get the same bs no matter what you do, so maybe as Patty said, you may not be cut out for this.

 

I don't MIND Sc too much. In my day, the eastern barrier islands had a people who talked in a language I had a hard time keeping up with. And there was the draw poker gambling. Ugh.

What I did like was the food. But not like it enough to live there, I fear the salt would turn me into a pillar as written in the bible....

This one feller whom I delivered to his Nut and Bolt factory one day with billets, I asked him what about those nuts and bolts? His eyes lit up, settled with a new pipe, then proceeded to tell me 50 plus years worth of nuts and bolts dating back to the days of rivets the kind you heated on coal.

4 hours it took him.

To this day I cannot walk into a hardware store or a lowes or something and hear him tell me this bolt or that bolt... ugh... what a education.

 

Don't quit.

Your first year of experience matter. Especially if you do not job hop. Remember if you have people treating you badly, fix it. Before someone fixes you forever.

Tough times require truckers to put down the candy and throw chains on for battle. You gotta keep going.

I hate to be so stubborn, I cannot help it if there is a chance you stay with a company one year out. You have to understand that is so valuable when that time comes.

And yes Ive run for #### outfits or discovered bad people in the past and part of what they are I made into myself because I did not know any better and hurt some people way back when. But ultimately, if 120 dollars is all you got paid.. consider this.

30 bags of rice Knorr brand. Heat your water until boiling, dump rice in and cook until directions finish. One bag a day, total 30 dollars a month. A side benefit you lose weight. You can put the other 80 into savings.

Sometimes People have to hit bottom hard before they begin to claw out of it and live. But if you fearing bottom, stay put and be tough.

 

Trucking can be all of that good stuff, you get out what you put in. Do you think doctors aren't burnt and frazzled when doing thier internships? Gotta get somewhere before you get somewhere. Do your damndest to be as good as possible, as clean as possible, and start looking for a better company. But big bucks in this biz belong to 2 sectors. Specialized, i.e. osod, haz, ect. And o/o's. But both groups work their ###'s off to get where they got.

 

If any of you newbies reading this, this is a burnout classic story in writing. Will he be a 90 day has been wonder or will he be a trucker a year from now? That is the question.