Hi From Northern IL

A truck driver that complains? Run for the hills, Ma Barker!! I have become kind of the TTR pessimist here, only because, they don't tell you squat at the schools, and this is the reality of trucking. I don't really mean to crush your spirit, but not going to sugar coat it either. Trucking, for the driver, has never been better. Better equipment, better roads, this site, but it will, at some point, make you wonder if you made the right decision.Weather, brainless dispatchers, crabby shippers, that would rather not be there, all takes it's toll. There's no love on the road, especially today, but in all my years, I couldn't find anything I liked better, so go for it. Just don't burn any bridges at the flooring place.

 

One of my high school classmates did flooring and started right at graduation from school.
I think he was the second classmate to die out of our class. He was young, maybe not quite 30.
The general feeling from those that knew him best felt it was doing flooring in unheated and new construction with no air conditioning during hot sweltering summers, sent him to an early demise from a heart attack.
You'll love trucking and will wish you had started doing it years earlier. Find your niche and you'll have a great career and job satisfaction.
Two of them, that happened to be brothers, died way before their time, after doing sheetrock for years.

 

Nussbaum is headquartered in Illinois.

Hires new cdl school grads.

 

@DualsThatTouch

If you want a day-cab job, no need to go OTR first.

I got my job by walking in the terminal, and asking if they’d hire me.

Home daily, work five days a week. Granted, I put in long hours, and the first few months were pretty rigorous, as I proved myself to my boss, but...it was worth it.

No way would I go OTR, or suggest it, just to ‘get experience’. Those days have passed. Trucking companies are hard up for qualified applicants, and someone with a work ethic that walks through the door is a leap ahead of the game.

You type well, and seem capable of coherent thought. Sell yourself with that attitude, and you can start out with a pretty awesome job from the get-go.

If you have any specific questions, I’ll be glad to chat via PM or telephone.

 

Good show, ol' chap. There's other tanker jobs that don't go Kablooey, and that's rare in itself. Tanker still the best trucking job out there.

 

I hauled acid and lots of other stuff in tankers, 48 states & Canada.
No big deal for new cdl graduates to do all that, otherwise, tanker companies wouldn't hire them.
The company I worked for hired two new cdl grads when I worked there and they were just as good at the job as the rest of us.

 

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