New driver

Nope, the worst is inexperience with truck driving, managing paperwork, and a pile of unpaid tickets from stopping at every weight station will contribute to a fatal at fault accident. It's a "bold" move until you realize you and your family are sharing the road with @op who expects to make $100,000 gross after taxes... guaranteed he won't govern or drive that rig at a sane, much less legal, speed. Remember @op will have no on the job training from a driver trainer.

Also after you set up your company, buy a truck (no sane dealer would lease to you), and pay the exorbitant price (if you can find anyone) of insurance... Who's authority are you going to drive under?

I'm sure you're a cut above though so you'll be managing IFTA taxes, freight lanes, state bridge laws, load and trip planning, finding repair shops that won't smell "free noob money" on you, and finding a company that will take you onto their authority.

Just please don't kill anyone when it/you come crashing into reality.

Edit: also once you rack up a bunch of 3x CSA/PSP violations from dumb #### you'll quickly become unhireable both as an individual and an o/o company.

 

I already have my CDL, signing bonus, and a date with a driver trainer. Nothing I've posted is unreasonable.

Post a picture of your truck's door with your company logo and authority # in a few months. All you've proven is that you can post your delusions on a forum and write a check to a school. Prove us "haters" wrong hotshot.

 

Railroad crews only work 12 hours per shift. Hasn't been 16 hours since late 80's/early 90's.

It is true the train stops when the crew is out of time, but you don't just come to a screeching halt at 11 hours and 59 minutes. No dispatcher would be stupid enough to foul the main line with a dead train. You're usually in the siding with an hour or more left, and often the crew van is already there waiting for you.

Inside the railyard, though, I have been on jobs that we timed out before reaching the engine shed, and had to have another yard job shove our engine the last 50 feet to the shed.

Kinda miss that job......sometimes.

 

I appreciate the corrections. I knew my knowledge was aged, but it's amazing how aged.

We have a dual track main where we are above the Jenks Yard about a hour downbound. Sometimes the Uncle Pete will set a train there and let it sit idling a while and use the other track on slow order.

Sometimes I think I should have gone railroading. I showed up in the Camden - Curtis Bay yards one day and engineer and fireman gave me a short tour back then. But said that changes were a-coming and I best find something else to do in life. I think most of those yards are gone now. Condos most likely. Ball Stadium took up the other part of it I hauled some of those bricks out of Williamsport for that one so I feel I own part of it, 50,000 or so bricks. 5 loads worth give or take a thousand.

I do intend to pursue rail at some point when I clear out the medical issues which will take some time yet. It wont be for wages, but rather part of a steam program somewhere. It would be something I would find joy in doing. But not with the current issues just yet.