Another seeker of the "Truth"

Your blood pressure HAS to be taken down. Generally minimum of 100/60 stable sitting down on room air. When paying attention to a task you can be up about 135 over 85 or so and be fine. Anything over that trips on the limitations of the DOT medical exam and you will not get a medical card. And without that card you will not be driving intrastate or interstate. (You might have something related to farm work, but you are in horse country so...)

Speaking of horses, I spent some time working on a handful of horse farms back home in Maryland, for breeding or for racing. I found the breeding farm the better of the two. The colts and fillies not yet broke to halter are the most fun to feed. You learn alot from them, more than any human can teach you.

Food warehouses are places where your spine will understand what it takes to move that weight. I hope you have it at 60 because around my area I don't know that many 60's able to get onto the dock and throw meat loads that weigh upwards of 120 pounds a box for 500 plus boxes. It's a young man's game.

I don't know if you remember your colonial history where young people were condemned to indentured servitude a number of years of their life. You are seeing the exact same happening to many new drivers signing on a contract that binds them to repaying 6000 or god only knows how much should they not make it the full 12 months in trucking after school. The quality of schooling is really bad (No offense) compared to what you will be learning out there.

Im sorry you are sick of turning wrenches. That I think or imagine would be your best value. We can use machinists of the old way because those are disappearing rather fast in the face of Computer machining. Maybe there is a way to send you to school enough to learn machine language so you can program a computer how to cut a engine head in 3D out of a block of metal. Once you learn that it's just teaching the computer robots how to do the cutting, you wont hardly have to do anything.

Its a thought.

Today's trucking has a number of issues, some of which I stand against on principle and would not do well believe it or not because for one, I consider myself a dinosaur and it would require a old dispatcher who also understands the old ways. The modern office with it's sanitary PC environment is a place I dont want to be in. I can be diplomatic when I need to be, but not in a office filled with snowflakes.*Shrugs.

 

Option 1) Hot shotting RV will get you to the poor house. I know some will disagree but that is the way it is now.

Option 2) What does the intermodal market look like their in Kentucky? That will answer your question. Out where I am at 3 years ago that was a road to the poor house also, but after the port strike guys are making a good hourly wage working the ports. Not great mind you, good! Before that they were all driving junker trucks, working CPM, and speaking a english as a second language.

Option 3) Grocery hauler for who? That makes a huggggeeee difference! You plan on running freight for a mega, an independent, food service, or company truck.

 

The truth is the Armor of God.

 

Ephesians 6:10-20.

Truth is the belt you wear, the sword is the word of god and so on.

Im not a thumper, but have had my own thoughts with God.

 

Landstar my friend is a joke itself but that's another discussion. Been there done that! Not trying to step on your toes by no means. And Mr. Spindrift my personal opinion, the Feds have ruined transportation always harassing truckers but In Louisville you should be able to find some clients to pull partial loads for especially around the national turnpike business park. Best of luck with your ventures!

 

Yes sir that's the business park I'm referring too but as far as selling myself to a client I'm not very good at. There a shop just above that business park that refurbish bedding machines that would work well with a gooseneck operation. I'll have to search for the address when I'm back in the office.

 

And to slide in quick directions to where they refurbish machines, pass buy Sysco on National Tpk cross RxR tracks 2nd building on the right before Kenwood Ave. Good luck my friend!

 

Ok X1, I'm gonna call you out on this one. The man is 60, by the time he understands the basics of machining, understand shaping HSS toolbits for what ever he needs to make, how to use carbide tool inserts without breaking everyone in one day at $7-$8 each plus, understands how the lathes and mills function without crashing them it will be years. Now lets add in CNC programming.

Making a cylinder head from raw stock, nope not unless someone like Kieth Black Racing made if for the drag strip. Gotta have cooling passages and those have to be casted because you can't machine on the inside of solid cast iron(this does not apply to engines that run on methanol or nitro). I run manual machines. Granted if its a one off part then you can make it faster than programming a cnc machine, but once that cnc program is written it will spit out parts faster than the best manual guys out there.

Every manual machine shop will hold their employees to 5 ten thousands! If you can't do it then you won't be there long. For a beginner, thats hard. I've seen guys that couldn't even read a DTI or even set it up, how about a steady rest, set that up wrong and watch the part walk right out of 10" 4 jaw chuck stupid tight then wonder what just happened. If he was a decade younger I would say go for it.

Machining IS a fun hobby though.

 

Some jobs you only need a CDL permit. Then you learn OJT and get the CDL-A within 90 days. During your OJT you're also a paid employee or as some trucking outfits call it; "Driver Associate" or "Driver Apprentice."
Here's just one example:
Waste Management
Driver Apprentice - Residential (CDL Permit Required) - (17020292)
Primary Location
: United States-Kentucky-Louisville