Okay. I finallypulled the trigger

Seems you have a good plan; keep up the good work.

 

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You mentioned a ‘cabinet job’.

I’m a bit confused here; do you mean that you are installing them for a customer, therefore you are essentially doing construction contracting?

If so, stick with that and do not get into trucking. Reason being is that you will only be making from between $500.00- $800.00 a week to work up to 7 days a week, 10-14 hours per day. Yep, thats legally even with HOS rules. And, regardless of experience, it doesn’t eventually get any better.

Ok, if what I’m saying were really true, then why aren’t there any other people posting the same information that I have just written? Of course, there is a valid reason, however, if I were to go any further with this, I’d probably get banned from this forum altogether.... again.... hint...hint.

BTW, I’m also a former construction painter and drywall hanger. Had my established business going for years, and I’ve been a member of the Painters and Allied Trades union since 1988. Decided to get my CDL during the crash of 08’; was living in Las Vegas back then and had to do something real quick. Tried driving for several years and I can tell you, I ended up moving across the country to get back into construction; got the heck out of the extremely low paying trucking jobs.. especially ALL OTR trucking jobs. Emphasis on all; anybody tells you any different, then keep in mind that they never worked construction and therefore have no point of reference as to what constitutes a good salary.

By all means; get your CDL, along with all endorsements, and keep it only as a backup in the case of another financial crises, since construction is one of the first industries to ‘go down’. Then, I suppose that $500.00- $800.00 a week is better than nothing.

 

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