Why is it so hard to get your feet wet in this industry?

Why is it so hard? One word:

Insurance

 

I started with a company that had small, medium and large trucks, started off in a 1ton, then moved into a 2 1/2 ton, then a 5ton, then a big truck...it took me about 3 or 4 years, but by the time I got to a rig, I had over 100 thousand miles under my belt, experience with loading and dispatchers, paperwork, customer service and how to drive and carry myself in a professional manner. All in all, the route I took gave me a better foundation than if I went to driving school, the schools only teach the basics( and from what I've seen sometimes not even that) nothing replaces experience, you may have to drive for a less than great company for a year or two, but by then you will have enough time under your wheels and enough time on the road to work for a good company and you will know who they are from talking to other drivers, also something I think is really important, is staying with one company if you can. It doesn't look good if you job hop every 6 months, I know if I train a guy who is in his early 20's and has 3yrs driving and has had 5 jobs, I am MUCH more suspicious of his skill level, and will keep him in training longer than i would a 23 year old who is on his second job because he has enough experience to do so. Just my 2 cents...for what it's worth

 

Why is it so hard to get your feet wet in this industry?

 

And once you start, stick with it. Don't take a year off and think you can come right back.
In the trucking industry, experience has an "expiration date"!!!!!!!!!
Maverick

 

'Cause everyone else is wearing rubber boots!!

 

the reason it is so hard these days is "greed".but they put a spin on it and call it "insurance"....

They have found a way to make billions on the trucking industry since de-regulation...its very simple.and this is just another way to get the truckers money...

We call it in ny,(legal extorsion)... Thats it in a nut shell....

Pretty soon i am going to have to go and pay for a course to use my ladder and clean the leafs out of my gutters...i will then be a "certified ladder climber" with my tag on my sleeve.

Then i can dis-illusion myself and my" ego "and become an expert at telling people how to climb a ladder correctly...

Then i can go to be a trainer...a "certified trainer.."

then i can start my own school and charge millions for my new course...

Then i can get the government to back me and the insurance companies to back me,then i can grease there sweaty palms with all the student's money i manipulated them out of..

Then i can go on a crash course to market how to climb a ladder to sucess....lmao

sounds like a plan...

 

lol scary but true.