Older (60) Retired Military (Marines) Getting Into Trucking

Tuition at Trenholm Tech = $7000 for a 6 week course. I used up my GI Bill pursuing a useless four year degree in Business Administration ~ Finance.

Wished I had used it to learn a trade and or go to Truck Driving school.

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

 

The first and primary focus is to transiston from the manufacturing sector to the trucking sector.

With the long term goal of moving to Mississippi. It primarily focused upon settling in and around children, grandchildren family.

We've an offer on a three bedroom brick house in which all we have to do is pay utilities bills.

Another where rent is $300 a month for infinity (via, family members on the wife 's side).

Your right probably just need to focus on stating and starting out from a base in Mississippi.

The wife can stay in Mississippi and we can put everything in storage while I go through training and going solo my first few months

 

I really haven't any interest in "retiring".

With a Class A CDL though. I can go from OTR, to Regional, to Dedicated, to Local, yl driving a dump truck, a logging truck, heck a school bus

Options and I LIKE HAVING OPTIONS

 

Oh I fully understand that. But not 60 minutes of every hour, of every day.

I'm well accustomed via being back here in civilian la~la the last 22 years of the many different and varied personality types driven from and motivated from the in different to the over blown ego of self importance and all that lays in between.

You can never escape them short of becoming a hermit living in the mountains living in a cave with Big Foot!

Nothing nor anyone can fully prepare one for what each individual encounter they themselves will come across in their day to day.

Like snowflakes, they're all the same yet uniquely different to each and every individual. No two are the same

 

And I get this, fully grasp the idea of "earning my stripes, and proving my worth. "

Building your reputation for yourself

 

I realize I'm the one who has to be flexible and adaptable.

In an incredibly short period of time? I've already have gotten solid advice and leads that I didn't have only a few short hours ago.

To be truthful I'm burned out on manufacturing. I'm in a leadership ~ management position for a Korean owned First Tier automotive parts assembly plant.

They have both American and Korean management. The Koreans actually run the show. But still there's mass confusion and miscommunication.

Auto sales are down across the board for all automobile brands. They're are 34 brands sold in the USA. The brand I make is 2nd from the bottom.

The ONLY difference between where I currently work at and the Titanic?

The Titanic had a band playing when she went down!

 

I've read that if you can drive a four Wheeler that ~ that's forty five per cent % of knowing how to drive a semi and trailer.

As I read that? The thought occurred to me,.........

Yea! But that other 55% must be Hugh to the new inexperienced rookie.

It's also been my experience out here in civilian la~la land? Training is no training at all! The current job I have the training I received was, Your just going to have to figure it out for yourself. "

I understand that, and respect that. As well as your being paid to do a certain amount of thinking on your own.

Individual imitative goes, along way.

And while I've no doubt there are some trainers worth their weight in gold, there are others who are in it just for the money.

I suspect "trucking school" offers as little as 5% of what you need to know about running a truck. The other 95% comes from getting out there in your own Solo

Somethings can only be learned, but not taught