What kind of jobs you had before trucking?

Thanks again! This is the formula indeed, i didn't even think about offering flights to friends. This can be much more time fulfilling than simply waiting on training as a CFI or paying my way all the way up to 400 hours alone.
Brilliant

 

Loaded bombs.

 

Directly before I managed in warehouse and logistics and before that poultry, while I enjoyed training and developing people I hated being micromanaged, i hated that I was caught in that salary Pitt of never ending misery, id go home and still get phone calls and emails. So when my company offered for me to become a driver and get my cdl it was a no brainer.

 

Not that many I'm only 24 years old.

At around 14 during the summers I would work with my friend at his dads construction business doing old school timber framing. Post and beam style. Learned a lot of stuff and it really is a dying art. My buds dad was a hardcore alcoholic but he knew his stuff even after a 5th of jack. All the beams were hand hughed and he made every wooden peg by hand. The guy was a true wizard. Got to save and restore the oldest house in my county. Don't remember the exact year but it was early 1700s.

Only other job I had before getting my cdl at 21 was fixing chainsaws and mowers at a lawn equipment store

 

Yup..!!!!
That's is exactly how I did it.
Today...I have.
Commercial Pilot, S/E, M/E, Land, Instrument rated.
3,800 Hrs.

 

Peeling taters at a breakfast place at 13 Y/O.
Box boy at grocery store
Construction
Factory worker
Company driver bobtail Truck at 17 Y/O
Moved to 18 wheeler CDL in 1992 at 18 YO
Transportation manager at 20 YO
Area branch manager at 24 Y/O
National operations manager at 34 Y/O
Plant manager at 41 Y/O
Company driver at 44 Y/O
Owner operator at 45 Y/O

Hope to work as long as I want but ABLE to retire at 55 Y/O?

 

Toilet, Mailbox, or Aircraft???

 

Flipped burgers
Construction
USAF 8.6 years Fighter Crew Chief
Industrial Mechanic
Semi-pro Drummer
Chauffeur’s license (pre CDL era)
CDL A

 

My dad and his dad were both o-o when I was little 3-7 years old I wanted to be just like my dad and his dad. Never got to meet him but family says I'm the spitting image of my dads father.

Dad told me to get a degree and use my brain. Being a driver didn't cross my mind again till I was 21 and construction slowed down and I wasn't going to college. Now a days its just a scam to start the young in debt from the get go.

I can't work in an office environment with all those air wasting mouth breathers. Too much stupid to deal with on a daily basis.

My dad was never a company driver. At 21 he bought his dads 1971 f mod mack in 1981 and bought an old pig belly 40ft reefer and him and my mom hauled produce mainly floor loaded watermelons. My dad started out with no money reserves and very mechanical inclined from growing up on a farm in north jerz. Armstrong steering coffin sleeper and 237 maxidyne with a 5 speed. Upside down camelback spring ride and Dayton wheels. Put 1.5 million on the old f mod mack. Did local LTL around north jerz and the 5 boroughs after his produce stint. That produce paid so good load in Georgia off load in Vermont and dead head back to Georgia.

Parked the truck in 07-08 and sold it and 09-2016 went to company driver in oilfield. Got out of the patch 2yrs ago and bought a 93 ch mack (my profile pic). Doing dry box work getting 4.00+ a mile (carrier takes 23%) my dad maybe worked 7 months if that this yr and did 146k after carrier takes 23% on 74k miles and home daily m-f wknds off. Truck paid for and the old bulldog never breaks down.

Just by looking at me most of you would think I'm a "new breed" but far from it. I'm only 24 but I'm trying to prove not all of us new guys need a safe space and hand holding. My generation disgusts me. After I get fuel I go find a spot to park then go in a do my thing.

I take care of my company truck like it was my own. Keep it clean rims polished and boss lets me do PMs myself. I don't trust those glorified part changers at ta-pfj-loves. I drive 09 cascadia 800k on it and I keep er clean and take pride in my ride even tho its a company truck.

I'm probably gonna by a 1999 mack vision for 10g and take the summer to restore it right. Has a mack reman with 150k on it. I have the best mentor in the world to help me...my old man. .

My dads is gon re-instate his numbers and I'm gon run under his authority. Gonna be elog exempt. I run it my way its safer like that instead of rushing to beat the clock.

Company runs insulation is offering 2.28 per mi loaded or empty plus full fsc is looking for guys that can run paper.

In the north east if you pull cheap your either leased to mega(not a fleece) or your iq is missing some points. @rank I know you'll agree with me in this paragraph. Oh and did you have you spread axle box on the mass pike few days ago. Could of swore it was you.

 

Nope I haven’t been on the mass pike since October