Good day and looking into career change

I hope you drop the ego a little bit trucking will humble you despite your background......it is a lifestyle change not just a job ......

 

Not saying it's a negative im saying trucking can make you regret ever getting in the truck, then the very next day you're reminded why you'd never do anything else.....it just gets in your blood ..guess I got the ego from when you said it's just a trip......like no trucking is beyond just the trip or the load...it's everything they can't teach you in driving school, only experience will ......some things you'll simply have to figure out.....

 

Here's another one you may consider. After you finish CDL school, Schneider probably hire you for tanker division. Tanker training is in Houston.
Tanker truck driving jobs - Schneider
Schneider offers a huge variety of tanker truck driving jobs with better home time, updated equipment and improved pay and benefits. Learn more and search tanker truck driving jobs.

 

Think outside the "normal" box: if you are a gearhead who also likes trains -- you can work alongside/with them at Swift's Houston terminal, which also does intermodal work:

Swift Transportation Houston, TX Terminal

I don't recommend intermodal work for total rookies; get 6 - 9 months experience pulling dry vans, first -- then put in for a transfer over to the intermodal fleet.



-- L

 

Welcome and you came to the right place. Chinatown is a great asset to the site, but tends to go a bit overboard. I think you can make it in trucking, but you have to be more specific. You are in an excellent area, but we need more info. Do you want OTR?( never home) Local?( home daily) Regional? ( 1 or 2 overnights), tanker, flatbed, van, reefer? That greatly influences who to work for. If you want OTR, by far the most available, you'll start at the bottom, and not many make it. I always say, find a company that will pay for your schooling and have a job waiting for you. They want you to succeed. A fly by night trucking school might not. Be advised, what a recruiter tells you for income and what you actually might make differ greatly. You might be very disappointed, it's not the $100 grand/year they told you. More like half that, but in your engineering, you didn't start at top pay either. A harsh fact, 35% of new drivers quit in the 1st 6 months, and between 70-90% don't make it a year, so the odds are clearly against you. You probably couldn't have picked a worse time to change careers, especially in trucking.