Getting back to trucking

I have no idea what the pay might be for the Schneider gig, but you can't beat seeing home 2 or 3 times a week, assuming you want more home time.

 

I just talked to Schneider yesterday about a summer driving gig, they told me I needed 3 months recent experience... Haven’t driven class A since June 2017 :-/

 

What about the places in Wilton? And the other outfit up there, Galusha?

 

What you can do is work locally. Even driving a stone dump trailer truck for a ready mix concrete company will do it.

I actually parlayed my time with Razorback in Searcy to that in which I became very good at front end loading rock and sand into the plant among clean up tasks, maintaince of and fueling and so on. The manual for that CAT 936 loader sat in my place at the break table when we are waiting in between loads. For my time there it was a absolute favorite task in work. It did not matter that it's 130 with no air conditoning everything worked out well.

Just a minor quibble. If I wanted to continue this work, I would have to endure certifications and tests among other things. That should not be too difficult when the skills are there and I am willing to accept instruction and classroom theory in addition to practical experience with the computer stuff today.

The reason I talk about is is because I have had a life time driving a 18 wheeler. I am out to pasture. Surgeries slowly and surely rebuild my broken body to where I will be strong enough to get to some sort of work. I know I am not spending 6000 dollars to regain my CDL A.

Companies are ruled by insurance. They turn away hordes of perfectly adequate raw material in the form of the motivated student full of pride (And rightfully so) that he or she just got a fine CDL A and all the jewelery that goes with it.

And now here is the company hammering them out the door telling them GTFO. You have no value to us. Come back when you got 6 months. I have seen this happen in my own life 40 years ago and I'll be ###### if the industry has never improved in this way crushing the spirits and souls of those who were motivated to get the CDL.

Maybe I buy say 100 old tankers, fill them with water. Hook them to to tractors. Put you into that tractor under FEMA this or FEMA that and tell you to drive here, drive there, get some rest and drive back to here before driving there. In about 3 to 6 months you are going to be so bored. Because you havent unloaded anything in that old tanker. You would have been billed for losses, damaged repaired and borrowing money. All that would have stopped by yourself on your own. And you will have some sort of savings built.

Once you have your paper 6 months or a year playing with tonka trucks. Maybe then you can stay motivated to get a REAL trucking and have a great time doing it. And I'll dazzle the prospective employer in boilerplate, reams of certifications and piles of commedations that would go up in smoke should the light of truth ever shine on that pile.

Such a company would be named Schnidler's Drayage. It would refer to a story told of a big shot who built a factory for making war munitions to kill the Allies by the hundreds and the prisoners by the thousands. He made it his first task that the people in the plant worked. But nothing produced by the plant mattered in the war effort. Any complaining was buried in marks. Millions of marks. And so the workers were safe long enough to use the skills they learned after the war. And so generations of them rebuilt Europe.

Maybe it pleases the industry to buy northern New Jersey, camden city to be specific. Move everyone out. Bring in 10,000 trucks. All of whom have loads to haul. But are not going to any particular place outside of the controlled area. All the newbie had to do is never hit anything, turn in 500 miles a day and do this for 6 months. Any damaged will charge off to the trainee. Eventually... that trainee will become a trainer. To hold hands of those students who need a little more of that post schooling.

By the time THEY get to become trainers, you are going to find yourself with one hell of a trucking company. They might love the socailized way of living, production as a means to itself and wheels turning for nothing at all except the assurance you will have your daily break and a place to park.

That's not America. That's not what is expected of the American Trucker. That's YOU the new CDL A holder. So what if the idiot company slammed a door in your face and told you to GTFO the porperty.

Do you not open your eyes and see 1 million plus trucking companies out there either 1 truck, three trucks, maybe 10. Or 100 or wow 200. Then 1000? That's awesome. 10,000? That's the army... do you want to fool iwth that crap all over again? It's up to you. You got this started now you need to see it through and finish it.

 

If you took out all the BS it would just be a short two sentence paragraph!