Good day All, Don’t remember my last post here. But I’ll fill the next few lines with a little back data! I graduated from CDL school in June and received my license. Had trouble finding a job in the trucking industry because I wanted to stay local. So I decided to join a Dump truck company! That was 6 months ago. I’ve done a lot of interviews in this last six months. I’ve joined this company with hopes to gain valuable experience in order to come on with a local trucking company. The six months with this company have been hell. The hours are so unknown. Bad weather could sit me down for 4 of the5 day work week. And that’s unacceptable. I have household bills to keep up. And in no space to just sit at home playing video games. I obtained my twic Card with hopes of doing some pier work. I’ve met 3 men with there own authority who seemed as optimistic about bringing me on as I was to work for them. But due to my lack of experience the insurance would not allow it. I’m unaware of the journey my new job will bring. But I’m happy to say that I have just been hired by Maine’s paper and Food in Aberdeen, Md. if anyone has any reviews on this company. Please fill me in. Or let me know what I can look forward to. Haven’t been in a truck yet besides my road test. I just been doing orientation. I plan on staying here as long as they will have me. And plan to make the most of it. I come to the site often and want to thank everyone for all the positive words they provide me. Good luck to all. And no matter what. Never give up
I'll be ######, Aberdeen. Hello Neighbor. I wonder if it has anything to do with the old Darden Facility there in that town. We all have bills to pay. Those bills do not stop no matter what that truck does in this industry. In my time companies took a long time to pay. Now I understand it's all computerized. Bad weather? Ha. Join the Club. I tell you it's way safer and possibly life saving to sit and wait 4 days minding your deisel fuel supply in a bad storm at a truckstop now and then. I remember I spent 6 in Redding at the TA there waiting out 5 closures. People kept coming up to the fuel desk asking if some of the other mountain state routes around the closed 5 is a option during the winter storm. HA... Anyway. Born and raised in Baltimore so help me I remember standing on the harbor and seeing all the work possible to a young man once I hit 18. Well guess what. All of that went away and replaced (Pepsi was replaced by a field.. for example there...) by condos. Now what? Aha trucking for me. Now if I had known what I was getting into (I was too stupid to know...) I might have thought twice about doing it. However the alternative was scratching out a minimum wage schelp job in a office being abused by bosses too stupid to back off and let me actually do some work in peace. I wanted out. Well Trucking was my out. So help me... ha.... You think insurance was bad. Consider my case being a deaf man, OMG.. here is a deaf man with a class A, should we even hire him? Is that some how illegal? In those days handicapped people do not have a voice in anything. They sit home and do nothing. HA.... How in hell did this deaf man get a class A? Anyhow... Trucking is a journey in your life. I hope that you say good morning with sunshine to people in charge of giving you a load and be nice to them. If you were feeling bad with the flu and snarled at your dispatcher... whoops, you are about to catch the worst load in the bottom of the load sheet. See where I am going with this? Forget the truck. Take care of the people and they will take care of you. More or less. HA.... enjoy the ride. Try at any way possible to have some savings. Add to that savings because when something bad happens you have something to fall back on. For us 9-11 was the ultimate. We were told that the payroll people were destroyed and it will be a month or three before payroll comes in again. (And yes we will have back pay when it does...) but until then can you go to memphis and get this detroit load for tomorrow am like you did before? (And we had just returned from Connecticut on the 12th and 13th... only to learn there is no paycheck that week and wont be for a while...) Our savings carried us through. It did wipe us out too. But we managed. Things like that only makes Iron tempered even stronger when hit hard. So, enjoy your days and nights when all is well, good food and people and plenty of time to get to your next appointment with a load you don't have to work too hard to unload. One last thought for you. Your first year to two years is a difficult time. Learning what you don't know. And more importantly not hitting anything, anyone or having people call your boss saying you did. Thus you get to keep your job. After a certain amount of time without trouble, you should understand there is a golden ticket in your future. To work for whoever you please. It's worth all the trouble and hassles to get it. Good luck.
