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xJagsfanx · Oct 17, 2012

Driver of the year said: ↑

This guy looks like the Obama Generation that wants everything easy and all is owed to him. He probably is on his parents health care until 26 and feels like the 47% victims!
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Whoa Whoa looks like we have a ###### here. Look guy, how about I look like a college student. Who owns his own house, has two kids and a wife and has to support them the best I can, and wants to find the best place possible to start in this industry. If I offened you for asking a question my bad, but a response like that to that kind of question from a guy you don't know tells me a lot about who you are. So please unless you have a useful response to my questions please refrain from responding. Thanks.

Cranky Yankee · Oct 17, 2012

like a lot of us you are probabably someone downsized out of a career that got you an education house wife and kids
you might become disillusioned by reality that is trucking OOIDA states only 10% make over 50000
rookies typically earn 25000 -30000

BigJim1937 · Oct 17, 2012

Wooly Rhino said: ↑

I had no pre-hires. None. I didn't know anything about them. We had lots of recruiters come through. No one was interested. I could not figure out why. After all, I am a multi-millionaire, everyone loves rich bankers right? I am a smart a s s . The instructors loved pointing that out. A PhD is a good thing to have when driving a truck, I have one of those. I also had a beard, that ruled out Gully Transportation. Everyone in the area knows me because of political things. I should have been snapped up. Oh, there was the fact that I was on parole from Prison. And there was the one recruiters wife who showed me lots of attention. Bottom line you are in better shape then I was.

I did the craigslist thing. I found a Fed Ex contractor that wanted me. But Fed Ex had me go through the appeal process with their company because of the felony. That took to long. I was cleared but already employed somewhere else. I worked a week driving for a temp agency hauling roofing supplies. That was fun. And then I got my first job. I ran over every small tree and sign in the state of Kansas. I totaled a truck. I hit another trailer during a road test with a company. I ran over a fire hydrant and while I was directing traffic I caused three cars to pile up. I had a customer complain about my backing taking an hour and me tying up his dock all day. (I was fired for that). I failed to collect for a COD delivery and the company never got paid. I hauled a load that never had bills for it. It was unloaded and moved on before we ever had proof we did anything. No pay for that one either. I failed a company physical. I scraped up a trainers truck (you have to really work to see the scrape but it is there). I hit my head on the bottom of a train and had a concussion. I tried to drive after the concussion and totaled my second trailer. All in all, I am the biggest screw up in the trucking industry. I do not have the pressure of ever having to work again so I have no problem applying for jobs that are going to turn me down. I just don't care. I am relaxed.

Since I graduated from Fort Scott Community College's driving school in 2005, I have be out of a truck driving job for exact 2 months. That was waiting to get my blood sugar down so I could pass the physical. There are too many companies out there that will hire you to let one get discouraged. I make 45 cents a mile and drive 3800 miles every week. I sleep in my own bed. With my own beagle. I do not suffer fools well.

And I have only had two post censored on this site. One pulled down. Do not let anything or anyone keep you from success. Remember the only one who really knows you are an idiot is yourself.
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Stryker why do you have 2 accounts ?

xJagsfanx · Oct 17, 2012

I am going to BTC. I will give them a year. Hopefully, it will be longer and a happy career!

xJagsfanx · Oct 17, 2012

That being said more offers are rolling in. Roehl is offering a driving job now.

demi · Oct 17, 2012

Gotta cut your teeth somewhere... Just don't wait too long. Good luck.

Pmracing · Oct 18, 2012

How long has it been since you graduated from school?

Mikeeee

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