Unhappy working at May Trucking

You could always try local gigs that pay hourly and have the weekends off. Try a mom and pop shop type operation. Tell them you have a year of experience, take the drive test and your good to go. You could also look for part time gigs like 3 twelves which would be around 40 hrs a week. The only downside is you may have to deal with local traffic, more than one delivery a day and maybe some more physical involvement-loading and unloading different commodities.

 

Where you live determines what your options are. I've never met a driver working for that company that like his job.

 

If you are referring to May? Yes, the run E-logs.

 

You know who will get you quick double's experience is FedEx Ground. You could probably parlay that in a linehaul job with an LTL. FXG contractors will teach you how to do it...not much to it just keep a steady hand and don't drive into anywhere you can't drive out of without using reverse.

There's a lot less nonsense with LTL and linehaul operations compared to OTR. I can say that as somebody that has been on both sides of that fence. An easy LTL job is the easiest money and best work/life balance there is in trucking.

 

Ill be moving to Vegas after my year with Kllm is up. Cost of living is low compared to majority of our nation's major cities. I hope it stays that way by the time my years is up

 

Before the big housing crash, everything in Las Vegas was way over priced. Doubt it will get that way again. www.propertyVEGAS.com will help you find a nice place to rent.
@Velli - I wanted a place in Chinatown section, but couldn't find anything available for what I need; 3 bedroom/2 bath, at the time. I like that section; close to the strip and lots of things to do.

 

Im not sure if I want vegas. Here in the south it's pretty reasonable. When I first came here to live in my house, gas was 30 a month, water 20 and electric was around 30 or so. The house payment was 330, insurance another 320 and so on. The gasoline commute bill to two cars was a thousand dollars a month.

Now when we sold the house, gas was around 90, electric 120, water 80 and rising to 120 intentionally due to bonds taken out and maturing 2018 and 2020 for two pipelines laid to greers ferry for water, our aquafire below our feet is failing, turning to sand. and the house and lands was paid off. shrugs.

You can get a acre of land in a valley somewhere for 6K or so and you can plop a manufactored house (NOT a mobile home, those are different. A Jim walker house is a type of home that is somewhat modular and easily built fast but built on site like most any home but cut differently at a factory and shipped via a couple of trucks to site. Those start at 40K on up for a thousand square feet to start.

And no casinos here to be tempted. Yes you can go to Tuldeo or over to Fayetteville for em if that's your flavor. People come here to live quietly near Mountain Home way and retain some semblance of values in the Bible Belt compared to the rest of the USA that has been rotting for a long time.

I will concede that Vegas has many things to do, Ive a trip there planned eventually. There is a place who I have friends who deal with machine gunning for mainly a international clientle who come there to strictly have the oppertunity to rent a machine gun and a box of ammo and taste for a few minutes how great America is compared to wherever they come from that bans essentially everything except obselete single shot shotguns. There is another facility that runs hot cars and are down to earth, not snobby or anything. They would be willing to stick me into a Diablo and teach me how to hold it at 190 or so on their track. It would be interesting to find the torque rpm on something like that compared to a semi. And there are still other things to do in Vegas.

If there was not much left here in the south I would probably go out to live that way but wont be downtown, I would be north and west in one of the little villages with a lot of dust where it's quieter and the company is more inviting. Hawthorne comes to mind. It's a old Military Installation that is now mostly decommissioned from what it used to do, store Ammunition of all kinds for the entire western USA and Hawaii for war fighting purposes. There is nothing out that way. Just quiet.

Vegas offers me a 24/7 so this night owl would be more than happy to get into something late at night. However. I have to be very careful there because in the past during trucking when we spent time there certain weather sitautions come up and raises dust from the land and it's not good for my damaged lungs to be breathing that in. I suppose my future house or hovel will have a filter in every room as a defense against that. I don't know. Mowing grass would no longer be necessary, raking stones against rattlers would.

Who knows? There are possibilities. But for right now it's pretty nice here in the south now that we got rid of our home and all the hassle associated with it. Everything was rising in costs each month and it was not with our consent. There is no point in trying to keep up on a fixed income.

 

Born and raised in the south(Mississippi) took a 4 year break from the south and moved to Illinois(Springfield) right after high school and absolutely fell in love with the city life. Had to come back to Mississippi last summer unwillingly. I have no desire to live in the country.. Mississippi has become infested with drugs(my youngest brother is hooked on meth and its literally like his soul has been taken), crime(specifically murders), and gangs. Yes, I know you're gonna say that it's common everywhere especially Vegas but here in Mississippi the suburbs and ghettos are literally side by side so there is no such thing as a safe side of town in any city here. I dont gamble, do drugs, and am not into paying for sex so that wouldn't affect me if I moved to Vegas. Moving there is a dream of mines and I don't know why lol.

 

Hello Neighbor and I learned a couple things from you tonight with this post. Im sorry to hear of the problems in old Miss. Miss was good to me in trucking when you view it from getting useful loads going to the west coast and the people were great. Some I almost went ahead to court and marry. ALmost. But... to hear you say of the issues with the meth and so on infesting your Miss state then that makes me sad. We have troubles here with prescription drugs for one and the illegal drug trade for two and it's a real problem. Normally I would not have a problem with it but as a medical patient who has to deal with my state some months directly it's a unwelcome complication that has become necessary due to the illegals and people abusing that stuff for reasons totally related to addiction etc. It's not fair. But it is what it is.

Vegas offers me a chance to kick back and get away from this area some day if that becomes necessary but first things first. It's pretty nice here still. I'll ride Arkansas as far as she will go. Compared to Maryland and how bad things have gotten there... it's freedom here in the south.