Greetings new member currently in Weekend Part Time school

Where do you live? What kind of IT work do you do?

 

Had this question asked in another thread... be careful letting prospective employers know of your intentions... no trucking company is going to hire you if they think you are going to leave should you get a better offer.

Best of luck to you....

 

Your CDL has a "shelf life" , after passing the state DMV test and getting your cdl you will only have a month or two before company's will want you to attend a refresher class. Keep that in mind! Also if you jump in and then out of trucking even with 6 mo. exp. and then come back to trucking say a year later, you will have trouble finding a company due to that "shelf life" thing

 

just move to Austin, you'll have no problem finding an IT job. you'll be home most every night, you'll make more money -esp at the beginning - and chances are you'll have hotter chicks in your office than in your truck.

if that fails, then there are dozens of oil companies/water haulers that you can try to get on at in the valley.

best of luck.

 

Trucking Companies are picky as well. Due to the FMCSR they are pretty strict on lapses in employment.

Then there is the above mentioned "CDL shelf life."

Plus if you go oilfield right off the bat, and then decide to go to IT, and that doesn't work out, and decide to go OTR, the OTR companies may not count your experience in the oilfield.

Plus if they see on your application (which by federal regulation has to go back a minimum of 3 years,) a pattern of hopping back and forth from Class A to IT jobs, they probably won't like it.

Plus the majority of companies willing to hire you after a refresher course (With less than 2 yrs OTR,) are likely to be starter companies.

Whereas if you pick a career and stick with it, you would have advanced with your experience, and be making more money, and have a higher quality of life.

Just my two cents, based on what I have observed with the application process, but what do I know, I'm a newbie, lol.

My advice, is research, and then stick to whatever career path you choose, bouncing back and forth, you have more to loose, than you do by sticking it out.

 

they go back 10yrs.