Bad trucking

i just got back this week from a road trip and the last time i was in brooklyn which was in july i got a red light camera violation. but i dont mind NY its not as bad as everyone makes it seem. I go there at least 5 times a month with the company im with now so its a change for some good scenery.

 

The 5 boroughs suck. I had my choice and I said no.

With that said, ask Rollover. There's money to be made there.

I just don't want the headache.

 

You are so right Wargames. In hind sight, spending that much loot does seem plain stupid just to have a go at a seemingly miserable job in the trucking industry. But please remember, there is a sucker born every minute.

As far as the break down goes, the $ 6,201.18 is all the money that my book keeper says I spent directly related to finding and subsequently starting/graduating CDL School. That includes all expenses itemized into that category and time line.

Sure I could have gone the bargain basement route and studied at the Allstate career school, not gotten any endorsements or extras on my license, eaten ghetto fries and canned Vienna sausages. Sure I could have not not drank coffee or bought a Rand 710, or traveled to multiple tanker hubs in several states to see what is really happening in the industry. Sure I didn't have to spend several nights in Niagara Falls to interview for my Fast Card, or throw a kick ### graduation party for myself, family, & friends at the Red Robin in Trevose. Did I really have to buy a new water proof messenger bag for my log books, training materials, work/text books, and other accessories to wear while ripping to school on the XR 400? Did I have to buy a take at home hair and urine drug screen test or even a new pair of sunglasses?

My answer is 'I guess not" but wasn't I talking about suckers? Hell, I borrowed and am still paying back a huge chunk of $ 32,000.00 to have gone to school at U Maine & San Jose State to obtain a BS degree in Land Use Planning and Management. To take my suckerness a step even further, since graduating I have had various crappy jobs of which none are even remotely correlated to my major.

Therefore, with all things being even, at least I know now that every penny spent over the past two and a half months was spent so that I could obtain a job as an entry level truck driver and I didn't have a miserable time doing it. Sure .38 cents a mile driving 1,800 miles a week (+/- some other add ons) to start while training doesn’t seem like a lot now [(to all my detractors) (everyone I know)] but down the road at least I have made every attempt to be happy and satisfied.

 

dude you live kinda close to me i know all state i see those commercials on TV when im home during the jerry springer show

 

the students and teacher at Allstate looked like a crew rejected by the producers of jerry springer. looked like a crew that had just rolled in from Keansburg, NJ (home of the tooth brush).

 

I thought fish town was the home of the toofbrush

 

Fishtown was the former bastion of white trash culture and def a sister town to Keansburg as far as "home of the toof brush" goes. It's just that now all the white trash has died off and has been replaced by young professionals (yuppies.)

 

This job fits our personalities. Have you noticed that most of us are a little strange?

Truth is, we like the pain and suffering, it gives us something to focus on. If I had a desk job next to you it would drive me NUTS and I would take it out on YOU.

So you should be glad I drive for a living, I can whip a 2.5 lb hammer out of the sidebox and take my frustrations out on a rusty trailer bumper until I can't raise my arms or catch my breath anymore. If I went nuts like that in an office, in the cubicle next door, we would both be on the evening news.

 

Great Post!!