Feeling lost in the trucking career. Should I go O/O?

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

It is huge, it is daunting, it is where anyone even with experience in it gets lost.

I don't know, it sounds like he has his mind made up.

This is my advice too, it isn't going to get better yet, but if you have the cash to risk, well ...

Just don't finance the truck and do your due diligence on the purchase, get a dyno, blowby and so on, plenty of threads out there about what they mean. Don't skip that part, you want to make sure you know what's going on within the truck and negotiate accordingly.

Get into your head that the truck is the tool, don't get emotionally attached to it as if it is a pet or your wife (I know a few O/O who get emotional about their truck but not about their wife screwing someone else). If one doesn't work out, then there are a million more to look at.

It is rare or getting rare to find one that is not spec'd for OTR, daycabs, and heavy hauls excluded.

 

Anyone who can’t get into US SALT in Watkins Glenn shouldn’t be driving

 

Sounds like you have enough of a brain to get yourself a degree and get out of transportation altogether. I did...

 

Getting my degree is what hastened me getting into trucking against my will. I wasted years and racked up $20k in debt getting that degree and then the industry I wanted to work in collapsed when the 1990-91 Gulf War caused jet fuel prices to triple or quadruple.

A college degree is not the difference between failure and success. The knowledge you gain might be the difference but if it was the college degree deciding your future there wouldn't be millions of "I got my degree in Grievance Studies and now I owe $500 per month for my loans and I can't get hired at Starbucks" videos. Don't go to college unless a degree is required and useful at the job you want.

 

Good point, saw couple drivers about drop into the lake hitting those front couple docks

 

Sounds like you have fully assimilated into the OTR life and like a racehorse are champing at the bit.
Be aware that the easy trust and lack of micro management you are experiencing with your current company are increasingly hard to find even as a contractor running under another company's authority. Research diligently where you want to take your truck before you take even 1 small step. That bird in the hand you have right now sounds like a treasure.

 

Well, I guess it depends what you get a degree in; I went for engineering, and there are ALWAYS careers in engineering. Same with nursing, or getting a teaching certificate. But art history or anthropology ain't gonna get you much until you get your PhD....

 

PFG in Elizabeth wasn’t so hard either.