Getting Back Into It

Here's the update...

• Stranded at a truck stop in my 14ft box truck / tiny home on wheels. The transmission has gone out. Second vehicle in a row that some "honest" person sold me with a bad transmission (and other problems). Over $6,000 spent between those used vehicles, including repairs. I trust my fellow humans too much. Remember that God only found 8 people worth keeping in the DAYS OF NOAH. I didn't agree with that until I experienced homelessness.
• I called a few companies and ignored the ones that demand a hair-follicle test. I am the author of the book Marijuana in the Bible: Cannabis in the Tanakh, Divine Mathematics and the Cure for Cancer. I won't smoke while being a driver, of course, but I am obviously an advocate of the plant and a hair-follicle test can detect THC up to about 90-days.
• The schools in Jackson are too costly. I produced over 120 audiobooks while living in a storage unit (see my book How to Live in a Storage Unit or Other Place You Don't Belong) and Amazon continues to steal my royalties, so I simply don't have the funds for a school.
• I left Jackson because I was approached/harassed by the police 4 times (3 times in racist Ridgeland and 1 time in Jackson), and recently was approached/harassed/interrogated by the police here at the truck stop that my wife and I are stranded at. That's 5 times in less than 2 months! As a trucker, I have traveled to all of the lower 48, and I've been to every major city in the USA. I have lived in numerous states, and I HAVE NEVER been approached/harassed/interrogated by the police. I don't have a criminal record. I am tired of Mississippi and its police force, and terrible leadership. I spent 7 years in Mexico -- that country is covered in trash -- and yet Jackson is perhaps the worst American city I have ever seen, rivaling the worst ugliness and filth of Mexico. Hopefully, American Forces will be able to assist Mexico...and hopefully, the people of Jackson will vote for better leadership.
• I called Wilson Trucking, and the recruiter was simply an A-hole that demanded "3 years of proven employment" even though I have been self-employed for years, with a catalog of books and audiobooks, proving self-employment. He demanded pay stubs, but my evidence (including emails to the FBI) concerning Amazon's theft of my royalties still wasn't good enough. Interestingly, the recruiter has the surname of the bully that used to smack me on the back of the head during lunchtime in elementary school. Showing over a year working as a slave for DoorDash and InstaCart also wasn't enough (see my book Chasing the Carrot: How Instacart & Other Gig Economy Companies Exploit the Poor). I hope to get my CDL back and send Wilson a photo of me in whatever tractor that my employer allots to me (hopefully a Freightliner or something equally as roomy)...along with saluting their company with my middle finger.
• I spoke with CR England -- the company that I first earned my CDL through many years ago -- and they said they would take me on, but that are unwilling to pay for a Greyhound ticket. I hung up the phone, but since I am desperate, I am planning to hitchhike to their school, alongside my wife, and see if those cheap scumbags will give me a chance. If not, I will simply continue to pursue getting my CDL back, either through a school or through one of these companies that has a school.

Thank you for all the thoughtful and informative replies. Stay safe out there -- rubber down, shiny side up.

With sincerity,
Jack

 

I actually drove for Schneider before. I was on their lease program that allowed drivers to pick their own loads. An exceptional program. My highest paycheck was $3,400 in one week -- typically earning close to, or slightly above, $2,000 net profit weekly (even after the price of fuel, insurance, and an expensive lease). Other drivers claimed to consistently earn even more.

Visitation issues with my son contributed to depression, and I parked my truck at a truck stop in Laredo, Texas, and went homeless intentionally...intending to go live in the woods and get away from society. I went as far north as Billings, Montana, but eventually went down into Arizona, and then to San Diego, California, where I lived in a storage unit for over a year, recording audiobooks. Upon accruing $600 in royalties, after producing nearly 100 audiobooks, I realized I could afford to rent a $150 a month apartment in Mexico...and left the USA. I spent 7 years there, reuniting with a woman (now my wife) whom I had impregnated some years before. We were robbed at gunpoint by a group of Mexican police officers in the mountains of Queretaro in November of 2021, and then survived a kidnapping attempt on my nine-year-old daughter by Cartel Golfo on January 13, 2023 at ~0100 in the city of Reynosa (bordering with McAllen, Texas). A few months later, in March of 2023, the Gulf Cartel succeeded in kidnapping four black Americans, torturing them, and executing two of them.

I have some brief US Navy and militia training, that kept my family alive.

Needless to say, although I do not have an "abandoned vehicle" on my record, Schneider did not appreciate that I left their vehicle at the truck stop down the road from their Laredo yard.

Picking your own loads is a far superior driving experience than working with dispatchers, and I recommend Schneider to anyone looking for a great trucking company.