Experienced Class B Looking for O/O to let me team up for experience

After expenses? Not so much.

 

No trucking company or insurance company will consider your bus driving as experience. Us forum members who answer your questions don't make the rules, we just convey the information.

As I told you in one of your many rants on this subject, we recently had a driver with 10 years of Class B truck driving experience who tried your present course of action. After getting his Class A and looking for three months, he went to school.

In another of your threads on this subject I laid out what owner operators earn and the reasons why this will never happen.

An owner operator running as a carrier can gross from 1.80 - 2.20 CPM, as a percentage lease about 1.50 - 1.80 and as a mileage lease about 1.25 - 1.40 CPM. I laid out the cost of operation in your other thread too. The big bucks you think are there, just aren't there.

You can spend all your time looking for something that won't happen, getting an attitude which proves you aren't ready for it, even if it were possible or you can take the tried and proven path to your career choice. I think you can figure out which will yield the best results.

 

There is a certain road that most of us newbies have had to travel to get into trucking. That is the way it is, are there exceptions? Probably, there are exceptions to everything. Go to school, get cdl, go with trainer, then you are on your own. Now your time frame on said path can vary but that is how it is done. Why some try to do it different IDK, and then they get mad when they get told it ain't done that way. I only did OTR for a very short time, but was ready to do it for as long as it took to find a local gig. By the way I give you OTR guys and gals all the credit in the world. Some day when the time is right I may go that route, and if I have to go with a trainer so be it, but untill then I am happy doing what I am doing. Point is I knew what I wanted had a plan and did what I had to do to get it done. Was I prepared to do a full year OTR if need be yes, it doen't mean I wanted to, did I get lucky, kinda, but I beleive you make alot of your own luck in life. I spent alot of my hometime finding that local gig, I would have rather been spending time with the family but again I did what I had to do. I am still new to all this but this is why I feel I will always have a job in trucking, I am pesistent as heck and do what needs to be done to get the job done. There are to many out there, and not just in truking that just go through the motions and pi-- and moan about everything but do nothing about it. Just last week a was having a bad week, and on one day I got back got unloaded, was getting ready to leave ( had dinner on my mind ) boss comes out and says I need someone to go to a particular WH for a PU, since I am lowman I don't say much, nobody says anything so I say I will take it, can I take a helper?. Boss says yea. Nobodt wanted to take that because this WH is a PITA, but everybody wants to make more money. Well 2 of us made more this week, for the long weekend.Everyone wants everything handed to them nobody wants to put in the time. To the OP there is a way to do this, it has to be done this way, find the path of least resistence and get it done and over with.

 

call pepsi put your time in as a side bay driver thay will help you get your class A now after some time im a bulk/transport driver.

 

well Pepsi dose not pay peanuts.. i'm makeing 1200 a week..

 

Plant, I was not trying to insult you. Anyway why not get that A with any endorsements you want, that way you can drive what ever A, B, C, etc..., and Zaptear is right Pepsi is a good gig so are other jobs along that same line. There are many on hear that will give you some good advice you just have to be willing to listen and learn to weed out the naysayers. Good luck man and keep us posted.

 

tank and hazmat endorsements using a class b? umm most would be Class A endorsements wouldn't it? Like others have said. Get Class A and you wouldn't have to worry much later on about finding a better job.

 

i do know we are looking for 4 class A side bay drivers. we go thow a lot of side bay drivers.. so i would think pepsi around you would be looking