Waaay Out of the Hiring Zone - Advice?

I'm pretty sure they hire about all the time. Their one trainer for flatbed is on this forum. He is @MrEd on this forum. Hopefully he will see this and chime in. I know he has 17 years experience with TMC and now 6+ years with Britton. I just think Britton would listen to your situation and actually understand that you don't expect to get the truck down to Key West. In fact it would be super easy for you to bring the truck and park at our yard in Sioux Falls, SD and fly to Key West as you mentioned. In fact, I'm sure our dispatcher Bodie would gladly take you to the airport and pick you back up when you return.

 

Beautifully said! Used to be a pipe welder before trucking for ten years so can completely understand

 

Fly Navy!

 

Change your license address and address you give to company's to a "Friend's" House in Tampa, Orlando or Jacksonville. Problem Solved.

 

I travel 200 miles to get to my truck. As long as my commute doesn't interfere with my job, my employer couldn't care less. I realize some employers are not as accommodating and place restrictions on how far from the barn you can live. Look for another employer, get the job and work.

 

Know what this is called?

Move. Get to the freight lanes. And they aren’t IN Florida (a state everyone hates because no backhauls).

If everyone in Florida died tomorrow the rest of the country wouldn’t notice for two weeks. They make nothing. Live on transfer payments. (Except Houston, pretty well the same for everything south of IH20 and 10 out to Commifornia).

Trucking ain’t a bad life. But it’s downhill the farther you get from Chicago to Columbus to NYC.

Trucks move goods. Manufactured goods are where the money is in trucking. All the benefits. And choices.

You can waste a lot of years fighting it. Pack your bags and go.

Someday, (five or more years) you’ll know THE DRIVERS HANDBOOK OF THE TEN THOUSAND NECESSARY DETAILS by heart.

Only then will you make informed decisions.

Whining about family, home county and the rest is crap.

The USA (you really need to understand) extends from Chicagoland to NYC and down to DC. North of the Ohio River, in general. Half of all Americans live there. ALL OF THE MANUFACTURING BASE IS THERE.

Whoever keeps that in a war, wins.

Everyone else has crumbs. (And anyone wants to argue me doesn’t understand what I wrote in the first place).

Here’s the accompanying. Manufacturing has need of specialized bulk (below is plastic delivery). Manufacturing needs complex machinery delivered. Safe & sound. That’s at top.

These aren’t easy. But they pay.



You can always choose to be a bottom-feeder. Hauling pipe. Sheetrock. Shingles.

Trucking is hard enough as it is. And bottom feeders work harder than anyone else. Next to no benefits or none at all. (Can I afford the co-pay AND the prescription?).

Never get old, sick or injured; bottom feeders consider workers comp time the only paid vacation they’ll get lasting more than five days; and, “hey, it’s only a limp after the steel rods go in”.

Big picture, Chief.

Your choice.

Good luck.

 

How depressing. I want to live on the beach.