Any Advice?

From a financial blog I post on:

"Hello Mish

The Friday Craigslist Los Angeles and Seattle job listings I track are down considerably over the past month.

From the lows of 2009, where they averaged 700-800 in LA and 500's in Seattle, they spiked to over 1000 in LA and to 800 in Seattle starting around January/February 2010 until as recently as this May.

Then job listings started a gradual decline into the 900's in LA and 700's in Seattle. Last Friday, the numbers were barely 800 in LA and 580 in Seattle.

These numbers are getting uncomfortably close to the numbers of 2009."


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How low can we go ????????????

It is getting scarier, day by day !!!!!!!!!

 

Make 2 of them, I'll join ya !!

 

I don't think so David. Especially if you put your faith in the Lord. You will get through it. Are leaning one way or the other about getting into trucking?

 

I think i've been to that motorola plant!

 

not to be all doom and gloom but they say that this next wave of recession could last years again until we start to see the economy start to swing positive again.
you got that right jtrnr!! It suxs when day in and day out we are all afraid of losing our job we have, looking for another job and hope to hell we don't lose what it is we have worked so hard for. Some of the threads on here break your heart and you keep wondering how much more can we take. I look at ads, craig lists several x's a week for both my self and hubby just to see what's out there.

Thank goodness for a forum like TTR where you can ask questions, get real time answers, learn more than you ever wanted to about driving from experienced hands and newbs just staring out AND have a little fun occasionally!!!

 

Just a FYI,

anybody just now getting into the schooling part of trucking, needs to be prepared.

By the time you finish training, and finally get keys to YOUR truck, our slow time of year will be starting !!!

Not everybody, but most of us can get quite slow in the winter months. So your paychecks may go from $800 down to $3-400. All these things must be taken into consideration. The last few winters, have seen ALOT of trucks sitting -waiting- for a dispatch !!

Personally, at your age, with construction like it is, I'd sign up for driving school !!!

If you were 35yo ---no way, there isn't much of a future for the majority of drivers.

That's the way I see it, try and beat all those rocket scientist from NASA to school !!!

Good Luck !!!!