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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wyonot, post: 12334110, member: 338527&quot;]Hello. First post here but, I&#039;ve been searching through the forums for over a week now to find a question as specific as mine. I can&#039;t so I figured I&#039;d take a chance at asking it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just got my CDL last week. I paid for it on my own dime. I&#039;m in my 50&#039;s and retired from a career with law enforcement. It pays the bills but man, I am really, really hating being retired. I&#039;ve got a 11 year old kid going to school so the permanent vacation I was hoping for when I retired is still 10 or 12 years out. I drove trucks in the army and loved it except for the army part. I love to drive and enjoy most everything about the idea of being employed as a truck driver.</p><p><br /></p><p>I live in Gillette, Wyoming and there are a ton of oilfield jobs around here. As the owner of the CDL school is an acquaintance of mine whose husband also owns a small trucking company I was offered a job with him. I don&#039;t now anything about the industry and I wanted to get the answer to a few questions I have relating to his operation. </p><p><br /></p><p>1.) He&#039;s offering 15% of the gross load per run while I&#039;m training. I think it&#039;s a fair amount but he says it caps out at 20% when I get seasoned after &quot;x&quot; number of months/years. Is this a typical pay setup?</p><p><br /></p><p>2.) I&#039;ve been &quot;employed&quot; by him for a week now and I haven&#039;t worked. It doesn&#039;t appear there will be any work next week either but I can&#039;t be 100% sure about that as I know things can change from day to day. He want&#039;s to train me on a side dump and says he uses load boards to find work. Is there a reason why there wouldn&#039;t be any oilfield work right now? Are we going through a &quot;bust&quot; period as apposed to &quot;booming&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>3.) Would I be better off getting into a regional or OTR gig or should I just stick with this? I don&#039;t want to sound impatient however, I am really tired of just sitting around the house and playing video games/ hobby stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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