Backing up dump truck

Other companies will hire you if they need drivers bad enough.Construction here always hires new drivers.

 

Rest your mind. Any time you are in a crowd, rest your mind. When 15 of you want empty now... it's tough.

The paver crews ought not to complain because they aboundeth in trucks and blacktop. =)

 

Dump truck for me is a salvation. I was fixing to be tossed by the state and many employers OTR stuff for being a bad boy in my time. When a family friend showed up asking if I wanted to run a mack 500 dump 15 speed I said sure, pay me. Every thursday they paid. And how. No interview, no nothing. Just go.

The day I emigrated from Maryland to Arkansas in the late 90s literally got out of the Mack and onto a bus for OTR work with Dowdy and company. He was able to provide all I ever wanted with one of his tractors (It was a good monster during road trip, I took it out for the fall and winter he he he.) more importantly he gave me a future here in this state. It's home.

But anyway. If you go OTR and find yourself boxed in by being fired too many times, wrecking things etc, Construction work mixers, dump truck etc is a good refuge to keep moving and making money.

Im not sure if that will continue. DOT and Uncle Sam seem determined to stamp out freedom among the class B's Where you can almost walk into a dump job in a few minutes without all the paperwork baggage that goes with OTR.

 

Always remember... if any dam thing remember this *Slaps... just so you remember....

"When it begins to rain, you begin to slide empty while braking." Understand? Road is abit wet, you want to slow and turn into a plant, she slides you correct and off the brakes. If it means going past the entrance, so be it. Back up and be teased about it. Just don't force the entrance on wet. (All that oil from the blacktop over decades. Treacherous)

 

You are right, times have changed.

I wish our new Generation to be strong and able to do things for themselves is all. I feel sometimes I am a dinosaur. But. eh... it's hard.

 

Whenever one of your betters screw up and know you are right and THEY are wrong, whatever you do. Keep that mouth shut eh? Mentally take joy in that you are right and enjoy it. That too will wear off in the next problem.

 

I witnessed Toronto convert about 40 miles plus of the Queen's Highway north of the city almost to what I think it Brampton or something else but anyway... all the farms went away turned into housing 10 yards apart. You would think that every Canadian in the land back in the 80's Boom would have a nice house by the 90's