Concrete mixer and rusty/newbie driver

I'm in a similar boat:

OTR short time--> quit for smoke and mirrors local company with a voodoo pay scheme, could only find local roll off after that fiasco, now back with an OTR company to avoid driving straight trucks/ losing A class experience.

Actually, last job switched daily b/t straight trucks and tt. That helped cement my decision to go back OTR long enough to get on with US Foods, Old Domoinion, or Estes after a year or so.

 

I also live in Beaumont. DuPont is doing away with Sentinal . They contracted with a common carrier to take over. I worked there in the early 90's when it was Conoco.
I'm now leased to Sevice Transport in Nederland. They hire out of driving schools. I'm not sure about you your situation though. It wouldn't hurt to call them.
We run out and back.

 

I would go with Schneider for at lease six months to get your experience level up. They are not a bad company. The concrete truck is just too much work.
I mean it took about 45 trucks just to cover up Jimmy Hoffa.

 

All 48, but mostly local or regional. A lot of times we get home daily.
If you take a longer run you unload and come back empty.
Usually off 2 days a week. You have to work some weekends.
If you need off, just tell them and it's no problem.

 

Ha haha! It's easier to back a straight truck, true... until you have to back along a 20' hole... in mud... fully loaded and if you stop you're not moving again. Or backing up a steep hill at an angle and seeing the whole truck start to slide down the hill. Or being inside a dark steel factory and having to back in with only an inch to spare... next to thousand degree crucible's. It's fun and agrivating. I used to drive a semi concrete trucks. Truck was as long as the trailer and you'd have another 20' of chute hanging off the back of the trailer. But I liked concrete work. If my trucks had ac and the company was safer I'd still be there. I say do it! Driving in the mud is nothing like backing into a dock.