Driving In The Military

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China, I have a friend who I worked with in the shipyards, his son did 15 years in the navy as a seabee, he got out because of an injury so he had his time driving truck and got his cdl. my friend calls me up and asked me if I could get his son a job so I said sure, send him up here - I owed the guy a big favor.

let's just say he didn't go into trucking. He was a great machine operator but a truck driver is was really really bad. on the road test he took out the pickup that belonged to the business next door and he almost took down a telephone pole at the end of the street. He admitted he wasn't that good - he said he did some damage with an Oshkosh he was driving. So after the cops made their police report on the pole, he knew he wasn't going to work for me.

The good news is, he got a job with a construction company who was building my house's foundation, I took him there to see what I was doing and introduced him to the owner of the company.

 

Like I told my kids...

Look at it this way...

If you do your service and get out honorably, you will have AT A MINIMUM, college paid for. Plus the added bennie of having medical/dental if you so choose...

Plus it will also give you the chance to grow up and figure out who you are, while having the needed support to take care of your basic needs. All the while giving you the chance to figure out who you are and who you want to be.

 

yes. and I'm a company driver, not an O/O. I'm in a new Crapcadia

Was it an adjustment to get used to... Yes.
Was it rough to make ends meat and pay bills at first... YES!

but if you have read some of my posts in the past... My House WILL ALWAYS be paid for at a minimum for the time I have served. My family will never have to worry about NOT having a place to live, thanks to my time in.

 

Does the company hire 18 year old drivers?

 

But now see, your digging into a can of worms that needs some more serious thought...

You want to drive a 389. Got it...

Do you want OTR? Local? Dedicated?
Will you want (In the future of course) a family?
Are you thinking LONG term when it comes to driving?
What are you willing to do, depending on where you live?
Do you want to drive days? Nights? weekends?
What do you want to haul? Reefer? flatbed? dry box? heavy haul?
etc...