Is my degree worth anything in this?

when or if I get the t660 with c15 figured out I'll let you know. But then again, by then, I'll most likely have stepped to a Cummings or Paccar motor truck.


Kinda amazed @ how little non snake-oil aero stuff is available for tractors.....

 

I have a Bachelor's degree and I've been laid-off from my previous industry multiple times. Hopefully, it doesn't lead to me being laid-off from trucking!

I think there is a good application for Mass Communications in the trucking industry, but I don't think it will make a difference with regard to getting a driving job. If you decided to go after a PR position, it would come in handy.

 

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science with a minor in Communication Studies and I'm currently in truck driving school (just passed my pretrip today!). I was unable to find a good job with my degree (currently working retail) and I love to drive so I figured why not give it a shot. Thankfully I have a couple of buddies who drive and I was able to ride with one of them a couple of times to see what it was like.

 

Even opposed

 

All the posts are right on but this one sums it very well. BA in psych for me, and it is almost worthless financially but it is a lifelong Anti-BS policy, in a way.

 

It's a useful as a Mass Comm degree if you're trying to become a plumber - no relevance to the field whatsoever; but, with the market become oversaturated with degrees (BA/BS), I've noticed more and more blue collar type jobs preferring college educated employees.

Undergrad degrees are the new HS diploma : )

 

I have a dual BA in English and Secondary Education. I taught school for 18 years, then started my own business, which tanked in the recession. I'd need a year or more of college to update my teaching certificate, which I can't fund at this time, and am not comfortable with some current trends in education anyway. I'm now looking to get into a company school somewhere and head OTR.

I'm not sure how accurate this is, so won't get my hopes up until when/if it comes to pass, but the company I wanted to start with does not have any female trainers, and their policy is no co-ed training pairs. I mentioned that I had taught for many years, and the person I spoke with said that the second I have my six months in, with ANYONE, to please, please, PLEASE (her emphasis, not mine) put in my application. She then amended that to when I had five months and two weeks in, so that they could get me switched over and started the moment I had my six months.

So it is possible that I might use my degree at some point in this field, though quite honestly I'd much rather be one of the instructors at the school who teaches classes rather than go over the road with beginning drivers. That said, I'm not sure what the classroom element of training entails, so maybe that's not a realistic possibility?

I just hope that the person I spoke with, who was so enthusiastic about my being hired as a trainer, was being realistic. She did say that her company is looking for female trainers each and every day, but simply can't find enough to work with the current numbers of women entering the field.

If this career requires competent written and spoken language skills, and the ability to interact well with a diverse population, I'm good. If math beyond what I can punch into my cell phone calculator comes into play, I'm in deep trouble.

I told a lot of students over the years that there is nothing wrong with education simply for the sake of being a well rounded, knowledgeable individual.

 

Based on my experience, most companies will let almost anyone train. Your degree and experience will probably make you a better trainer especially with the classroom type skills but you wouldn't need any of it to become a trainer. After 6 months of driving, you are still learning to drive. Would you want a student teacher teaching you how to teach?

 

I use to know truckers that had a degree in something.After yrs and a lot of money they couldn't find work in that field so chose trk driving.Heck officers came off the force to join our happy team.Companies could care less if you have a degree or not.In this industry it means nothing.All they care about is,can you drive trk.

 

why would you insult him by thinking he would stoop down to the unintelligence of a dispatcher