Deployed to Iraq looking at Trucking as a Career. Help Please!

Oh yeah, Wind river country, That isnt very far from where I grew up in Montana. I have been through the area a ton of times, used to load bentonite out of Lovell and haul it all over the place.

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You know starting local might not be such a bad idea

Here are what the merrits to it would be, if you are driiving in a local vicinity it will mean that if the truck breaks, you can call the boss, he can send some one out in a reasonable ammount of time, and you can get home that night to your own bed, get a shower and be fairly comfortable.

Where as if you are driving a company truck otr and you break down in rural mississippi, you could be stuck there for who knows how long and it will be a miserable experince, when you are already taking a lot in learning to drive the truck.

I cant remember the name of the outfit, but there is a company down there that runs a lot of those pneumatic trailers, the have white trucks with blue stripes, they run kenworths, and they look to be fairly well maintained. I almost bought one of em from Kenworth in billings, it had like 600K on it and ran like a clock. The reason I didnt was because it had been jack knifed and the corner of the sleeper had been damaged and it was going to need to have a new sleeper put on, and paint.

Just a thought but if you got paired up with them, and got in a good truck and it was getting up where they were talking about trading it off, you might be able to buy it from them and know what you are getting because you would have been in it for like a year already.

 

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Werner sucks.

 

I understand that you hate Werner but this solider might whant to look at a Company that has a Apprenticeship Program he can USE his GI Bill and get paid like 1300 a month from the VA and this will include his driving pay

 

Good carriers pay $1300 week , not a month .

 

Yes but he can use this while he has his training where his pay is not that great for a few months