Hello from Heather and Shannon

Just wanted to introduce ourselves, I am Heather and my wife's name is Shannon (sitting here helping me type) we are in our mid 20's and are both community college graduates. We currently live in Colorado and are planning to attend CDL training in February, right now we are both working and saving our money to pay for training (don't like the idea of company paid programs) and to have some savings for when we start driving (stuff happens). I currently work as a water treatment plant operator and Shannon works as a house keeper. We are both burnt out with are current jobs and would love the chance to work and be together and see the country (team driving), after all life is an adventure right? We've both lurked around on this forum for awhile now (this place is very informative) and finally decided to join. We would love to meet others in the industry and any advice/feed back would be wonderful.

 

Thank you for welcoming us.

 

Lol, small world. Its not that I completely hate my job, believe me I am grateful for having it, I'm just getting burnt out. I started out in water resources and loved it but moved up to an operators position cause its better pay and I already had the state license for it. Being an operator is just a lot different than I thought, right now I feel ready to move on and try something new and as an added bonus I can do it with my partner.

 

Will definitely check around at the local colleges, we've visited three cdl schools so far and found one that we really liked but we still have time to look at more options before we make a decision. And it never hurts to have a back up plan if one school or program won't work out.

 

Thanks, just checked their website out. To be honest the schools we visited gave us some pamphlets from different companies but it was usual Schneider, Werner, swift, jbs,etc.