What kind of jobs you had before trucking?

I was a secret agent for B.O.S.S.S. ( bureau of super secret spies).

We were so secretive, even the C.I.A. Didn’t know of our existence. We worked directly from the white house.

I was so brave, that on one particular mission, i had to eat my own guts just to stay alive.

P.s. the existence of B.O.S.S.S. Is so highly classified that if anybody finds out i told you this, i could be hunted down and “disappear” forever.

Please don’t tell anyone.

 

I started Flying in 1982, Cessna 150 N9218M and the School had the C150 AEROBAT. It was fun learning Aerobatic manuevers in that little plane. Had a High power Lycoming engine. Great Loops...!!! It was $47.00 X HR Wet.

 

Tour guide for Temple University
Health Insurance Group/Corporate Account Manager with UnitedHealthcare
Server at Biergarten (a rooftop beer garden in downtown Pittsburgh)
Bank sales/service person at a PNC Bank branch
Trucker trainee for Millis starting in 2 weeks

My endeavor into trucking is specifically so I can pay down debt and save for/pay for flight school. I also saw another one of your posts about ATP's income. From what I've been reading, while it appears highly qualified truckers make more than a regional ATP pilot, that pay gap is allegedly reducing dramatically due to increasing demand for pilots coupled with more difficult standards to become a pilot.

 

Wish my first instructor had something like that, wouldn't have switched schools. I do remember doing a split S once in either the warrior or archer. Doesn't take a lot of power for that.

Yea, but I'm too old to go through the number of years it takes to work up to that level of pay, and pay off those student loans. How early do they force retirement on the ATP rating?

 

There is No force retirement....it is all about Medical Issues. If you don't pass the Class I Medical with flying colors every Six months.? Then you are in for some gray days. Google,,,, Edgar Hoover's Pilot history. Turned In his License at 90 years Old. A "heck" of a Pilot. HAPPY TRAILS..!!

 

Yes.....that is a fact. Truckers make more money than most Airline Pilots, more money than Small Regionals part 135 Airlines and definitly more money than commercial Pilots that are accumulating Flight hours by doing some Flight Instruction or just Flying in friends and family FBO. Remember they Only get paid for hours flown at around $50.00 X hr. (Most flights lasting 15, 30 minutes in places like Alaska and so on. Also the do not fly every day. They dont fly 8 hrs shifts either. It is a strange Industry. HAPPY TRAILS..!!

 

Restaurant General Manager 8 years
Retail/Marketing Manager 16 years
Truck Driver 14 Years

 

Thank you and yeah, the way that I've read/what flight schools have told me and quoted for why the gap is closing is almost entirely because of sign-on and retention bonuses. Not because of pure wage inflation. Hourly rate to hourly considering the typical amount of paid hours in a week, experienced truckers still make dramatically more.

I imagine I'll be trucking for quite some time because of this which I'm very much looking forward to . It'll be a struggle to give up a good paying job only to move into the realm of trying to accumulate flight hours on a relatively poorly paid basis.

 

This Could be your Plan.
1) Keep Trucking....
2) Save $6,000.00 thousands for Private Pilot License (OR, FLY EVERY OTHER WEEKEND, One Hr of training at a Time).
3) Once you have the License. You invite friends for Rides on a Rental C172 or C182, to accumulate flight hours. ( They Pay for the Rental.) You provide "the Pilot".
4) Mean time, Study for the Commercial License, need (400 hrs).
5) Go for commercial Pilot at any FBO. (Once you get it) You can legally earn $$$$.
6) Then again.!!! contact your Friends....Fly them anywhere they want to go. ( The pay for the Rental C182.) You provide the Pilot.
7) Once you get the Commercial, while You are flying your friends around. STUDY FOR FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR. (You can teach after 400 hrs flight time)
8) Boom......You will be on your way to ATP at other people's Expense. With their $$$$, Not yours.
(That is The FORMULA)
GOOD LUCK...HAPPY TRAILS.!!!

 

Opsssss
I meant BOB HOOVER.