Wrong time to start trucking?

I put my name on the truck list back in Dec, been sitting at home since Christmas........

 

I would skip the heavy equipment school. It may be different in SC but in Ga they had Mexicans running almost everything. Motor graders, trac-hoes and asphalt spreaders were about the only things Americans were running. On the plus side, C.W. Matthews in Ga stared motor grader operators out at about $15 p/hr and they had guaranteed 35.

 

Good advice. If he doesnt he will always wonder if he could have bettered himself. Go for it, thats what I'm doing

 

"trucking?", you MAY be able to get a local job out of school - I have heard of local companies hiring new drivers - usually it means you'd be driving a dump truck, not a tractor-trailer - but it's a start and if you do well and impress the boss, then you might be a shoe-in when a tractor-trailer in that company opens up.

NO, driving a dump does NOT pay much - out where I live, you migt be looking at $10 an hour (and I doubt any Tim Horton's pays $15 an hour anywhere, in western New York they pay minimum wage), but you might enjoy the work and you will still mostly be on your own.

Go get your CDL, keep looking for jobs, try to network with people who may hear of openings in local companies, but DON'T take a job driving over-the-road unless you're sure you can handle it - and it sounds to me like you really don't want to and don't need to, since your wife has a good job - keep looking, deliver pizzas or whatever, at least you're making an honest living. I found that what most impressed prospective local (and my current) employer(s) was my long tenure at previous jobs, and my willingness to learn a new job from the ground up.

Employers like to hear that a prospective employee say that while they may be inexperienced, they're willing to learn.

Not everyone out there with a CDL is cut out for over the road - and there's nothing wrong with that.

 

I would rather have a total stranger teach me rather than my husband. He's a good driver, a good instructor and I love him more than anything. But please, please, please let a stranger be my teacher. It's probably easier because you listen and don't take it personally. It's like teaching your kid to drive, it doesnt always work. But that's just my opinion. LOL.

 

I wouldn't skip the heavy equipment . There are a lot of heavy equipment operators out of work too but Obama promised to increase jobs in construction .

 

I too love my husband...but gosh he can be the biggest jerk in town. Anyway, I am so confused. I don't want to waste my CDL's just sitting around and never driving truck again. I have talked to US Express but no definite plans on anything. I am not a terrible person and I learn really quickly. I do get along great with everyone, my husband is just not trainer material he has a terrible temper.

Any suggestions.

 

Yeah he mentioned about the highway upgrades across America, that is something I am waiting for with the roads and bridges being so bad..