Random Question: Trucking or Construction

Trucking is what you make of it. My advice is to try it and just ignore all the smart talk advice you get from some drivers. Keep to yourself and deliver and pickup on time and there should be not problems. There will be waiting times and possible layovers, but no company does that intentionally usless you are a trouble-maker and complainer for them. Trucking has more freedom and you will never be out of work as long as you have a clean cdl and a good attitude.

 

Because unlike me, he worked consistently for 30 plus years, every week he had a paycheck, he had time off with no bs and happy doing his job.

 

I have worked construction as a heavy equipment operator for my whole adult life. For a little over 20 years. It is an art. It’s either in your blood or it isn’t. Not many companies will hires those positions unless you are efficient in all types of machinery. As far as labor positions go, that’s not my cup of tee but I don’t speak for everyone. I got into owning my own truck and bussiness a year ago becuase the construction company I was with went belly up. I absolutely love my new bussiness. I had contacts before hand that ensured I would have work lined up everyday. Would I go back to what I was doing and leave trucking. Sure but only if my bussiness fails me

 

If you want to work really hard, do construction. If you never want to work s day in your life, drive trucks.

 

I don't think there is much sweating, as long as they don't swim over the 14 hour rule.

 

What the hell kind of job do you have lol?

Anyways “construction” isn’t telling us anything. You talking about climbing ladders with 100 pounds of rebar or finishing concrete or driving a loader pushing dirt around and filling dump trucks?

What’s the pay? Is it union? Are the trades booming in your area like they are here?

We need more details.

I do a little of both I guess. I drive a mixer at a union shop. I used to pull tankers, I like my job now better. We can’t tell you what to do, but we could give advice if you gave more details.

 

As others have said, it depends on the type of construction you're referring to. Why not drive a truck doing construction related tasks? You can make some decent money depending on what you're hauling, as well as if you can find a solid outfit that has benefits etc like my current company. As far as strictly construction related jobs it's all up in the air. In my neck of the woods, if you're not a foreman, superintendent etc, you better be the right skin color or you're not getting on ANY crew if you catch my drift, and that goes for concrete, framing, dry wall, siding, roofing, hell even equipment operator. I run asphalt and concrete and dump into paving machines via end dump and live floor trailers for highway work. The hours aren't great considering you start anywhere from 1-3 am, due to it currently being to hot to run the materials during the day "concrete mainly,) but I'll see more regular day light hours once it cools off. But besides that, I've pulled end dumps, live floor/walking floor, dovetails, step decks, flatbeds, belly dumps, dry vans etc, and I personally enjoy construction related trucking jobs. I can't really explain it per-say, it's just the type of trucking I dig at this time. I also personally know several local cats running 1 truck operations leasing a trailer and making 4-5 k a week and home everyday and off on the weekends usually. There's all kinds of different avenues.

 

I’m a flatbedder, so I point a large car in a certain direction after I wrap a present and tie it to a plank of aluminum and go.

 

Lol I guess what you consider fun others consider work.

Let me see if I can do that. I drive the ol w900 under the plant, it fills the big steel spinning thing full of mud. I point it towards the job and push buttons until it’s empty.