Opinions before Decisions

you need to tag him like this -

@Chinatown

 

I've always been a huge fan of Schneider. A big company is where you need to be when starting out. You'll make mistakes, they'll ease you into things, and they won't ask you to do anything illegal.

Now if you wait two minutes someone will dispute everything I just said because their friend's sister's cousin's adopted mother heard something 8 years ago while in the bathroom stall at the hook

 

You will hit things that don't move, generally attached to other things that are really important. You will get fired and then try to hire on with someone else. Maybe you will find that it's tough to hire on at all out of school. And finally one day Dispatch will have you deliver into Timbuktu far far away with 3 hours left on your working day before you have to legally stop for your time in sleeper berth. If you don't say no and get a new appt time, you will be at risk of dismissal for being late.

I hate to be difficult. But many people go into trucking thinking one thing and end up out within a year for these and other reasons.

Finally but not least, if you have people in your private live involved in any way with legal or medical pot etc (Or relatives using pain medicines etc) get rid of them. They are literally a liability and a threat to your ability to continue using your CDL without a positive drug test. One hot test will take you out of the industry quickly.

 

I don't think he asked for propaganda.

 

Outstanding.

Im not your opponet or adversary. Each of us have a unique life story and not all are as lucky I would imagine. I have seen too many casualties over the years and would like everyone going through all of this to get going in trucking not to have trouble.

There are good things to trucking around the USA. For me it's the people and the food as well as history in all the places we go. Learn something every day. Many other kinds of employers work around problems and mistakes. Trucking is less tolerant in my experience.

In addition to planning and powerthrough, I will suggest being able to go off the textbook and write your own solution to a unique problem sometimes. Risk Management would be the most powerful asset here.

Good luck, and we look forward to many stories from you in time.

 

Just a friendly tip- the "ignore" button to not have to see what opinions certain folks who reply to EVERY post in here, is a very useful feature.

Just sayin....

 

I use the ignore button as well, select the user name and then select ignore in the popup. There are times people are less than decent and in the doghouse they go.