First day of CDL school

Congratulations!

 

You're welcome. Keep up the good work

 

Outstanding!

 

Congrats. Now comes the fun part of finding a decent company.

 

Where you are is close to the famed Boston and Maine Railroad, part of the work they did was milk. Without getting into all the little tidbits of history, it is all trucks these days.

The problem is I think related to tarriffs, milk in Canada is a different structure than what American Farms can do and they are falling out.

If it is tanker you want, Milk will be a good start. Might even throw in some rock crawling and perhaps learning how to get unstuck now and then. And have to be very reliable in your daily start time. Farmers get kind of cranky if you showed up to the truck 2 hours later in the am because part of what they do if not everything they do is focused on getting that product onto your truck at a certain time every day.

You think shippers and recievers are tight with appts? HAH. They are not even close.

If you are over 25 you should be insurable for other forms of tanker work. Bulk tanking for cement, agricultural etc would be a good start. You learn certain hard lessons that will stay with you all your life as it did with me.

When you get up towards acids, gases and other goodies you are basically going to the moon. Think carefully before getting involved with that.

Fuel is the one thing I wont do. I have a family history dating to ww2 on that and later in trucking on Big Savage when his gasoline tanker ran away into Cumberland. It was not the road it is now back in the 50's. And I hate to pick on Maryland, but you can count on a annual tanker wreck where it will take about a day to quit burning.

I think that's enough for the time being. It's important for you to see that newbies are tossed for the smallest of things when they run into something like a post, firehydrant or a docking thing or something else. Once you settle past your first year or two, you will understand that you can write a golden ticket anywhere.