DAZED and CONFUSED

Since you have chosen Sage, PTDI certified school, your options for companies has grown. I do know Crete hires PTDI graduates. They also like the 44 hours of solo driving time you will get. Also ask Sage about companies in the area they have contact with. i went to a sage school, and am thankful for the knowledge I learned there.

 

$100 a day for flying around the Canyon, sleeping in bed with wife every night, no log book except for the flight time
compared to;
Wrong time of year to go into trucking
pisspoor pay as a trainee,
never home
$100 a week minimum just to feed your self
living in a closet with another person you don't know
sitting at a truckstop waiting for a load and it happens with small companies also
putting up with some of the most irritating people in the world such as:
truck driver
shippers
receivers
lumpers
dispatchers
safety people
police
DOT
4 wheelers
pan handlers who wake you up when you're asleep
and the lot lizards too
getting sick so bad you call 911, they drag your half dead arse out of the truck, the company comes and gets your truck and either stuffs what they can in a box and hands it to either the truck stop a shop mechanic or dumps it on the ground or at the yard and fires you with an abandoned truck, load and trailer on that BFI HireRight DAC report
or you just get sick as a dog, need to rest and that moron dispatcher company owner is beeping you or calling you for "when are you going to get to driving" or fires you on the spot!

The best of the last list is THIS IS THE WORST TIME TO START TRAINING OR SCHOOL! Christmas time slow down runs until about the beginning of March unless you're doing reefer then it slows but not as much.

If that pay you're making as a bush pilot is regular pay stay with it! No kidding! Yes you can do all the paper miles and figuring you want, as to what you "might" make as trucker but everything looks good on paper! It ain't real life! You in these time be doing great if you get 2500 miles in a week! Figure that at these pathetic "training rates" and think you'll be feeding the family, you, paying the rent and all the other things on $.25 a mile at 2500 miles or even 3000 on that insult to pay these BFI's are paying saying it's the economy! It isn't! Freight rates did not drop like they tell you they did! Freight did but if you're pulling a good trailer that hauls product that does not slow down then you're doing better working where they is no traffic, has better views that I get to see, and have a life!