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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptainGoatYak, post: 8723914, member: 14786&quot;]Random update after about forever for anyone still interested...</p><p><br /></p><p>So last fall i did get sick of my fuel transport job, quit for a job at the local co-op and delivered propane over the winter with a bobtail. It was a solid decrease in hours, and there were some decent benefits (things i was looking for).&nbsp; But the pay kind of sucked, and all the slogging through snow and in and out of the truck a million times a day was murder on my knees. I was hoping that by the spring they’d be deciding on buying their own fuel transport (or several); they’ve been considering it for some time, i guess. That possibility was one of the reasons i took that job. Well, they had no more an answer to that question than when i started the year before and didn’t sound any closer to making up their mind, so i decided to try something else. I contacted hausmann again, and they were in the process of getting some additional trucks and hiring some more drivers, so i went there for their road test.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, the thing to know about that is being relatively comfortable with driving a big ol’ Pete with an 18 speed, and in particular being ok with shifting it (up and down) without the clutch. I was nervous because it’d been a minute since I’d been in a semi, and a few years since i’d last been in a big Pete with an 18 speed. But i remembered quick and the guy riding with me gave me the thumbs up after he let me know what he was looking for and i showed i was capable of doing things the way they want them done.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even after all that, i wasn’t certain i was getting a new job and kind of put it out of my mind, mostly because my wife was feeling iffy about me being gone so much again. So i ended up taking a different job; wasn’t local but not OTR and put me in line for a local job.&nbsp; Well, the past couple months with that i ended up working more and making not quite as much as i was wanting to, and it’s been making me a little nuts for a lot of little reasons (i had forgotten just how much i hate severely governed trucks, and automatic transmissions, for instance...). So somewhere in there, hausmann lost my number changing computer systems or something and i eventually found an old email i didn’t catch right away, asking me if i was still interested, and i called them back and they still needed some guys. Long story short, i gave my notice to where i was (i don’t hate what i’ve been doing, but it was a misstep for me, what can i say) and i’m set to go work for hausmann in a few weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose i’ll update this again in a little bit.&nbsp; I’m looking forward to giving this a try and seeing what the paychecks are like.&nbsp; I’ll say this much, the truck i drove for my little driving test this spring had over a half-million miles on it, and unless you looked real close, you’d think it was brand new off the showroom floor.&nbsp; I’ve worked for one or two places in the past that took pretty good care of their stuff, but they look like a whole step up from anything i’ve seen previously in that regard.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’d say i feel more optimistic than for most jobs i’ve taken, mostly for having seen a selection of paystubs last year, and since i first noticed a want-ad on craigslist however many years ago, they only seem to advertise a need for drivers a short time once, sometimes maybe twice a year, which seems to largely match their having slowly grown their fleet (as compared to some places that never don’t have an ad up looking for drivers).</p><p><br /></p><p>To this point in my life, i don’t know what it’s like to get a job that I’ve been working towards for a couple years (this one specifically for at least a year, but a job like this for over two years now; last time i quit a non-trucking job i decided i needed to get myself the experience to get into something high-paying and specialized), and even on the low end of their claimed pay scale this will be more money than i’ve made to date. So i guess i’ll find out.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose I’ll be #### sure to post a pic or two of the rig i’ll be driving; i’m not sure what specifically that is yet, but i’m looking forward to finding out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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