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LavenderTrucker · Nov 16, 2009

Don't know about the CAPS vs non cap. To me it is yelling when I am reading it loudy. LOL

MUSTANGGT · Nov 16, 2009

I like the way you think LT.
Never took you for a Dog the Bounty Hunter type though.
(wink)

Texas-Nana · Nov 16, 2009

stop winking at her mustang or we'll file sexual harrassment charges on you

*winks at Lavender just to start a new ruckus*

horse-sense · Nov 16, 2009

I appreciate your comment i see that you might be a better trainer than you think providing what you said is ''your truth". You have to care,you do sit on the edge of your seat, and sleeping is dificult at times. But i will do what i can to make shure that i share with them all i can..they will be my report card on how good i was able to train as well as trying to understand what mindset it takes to do the job,its courtesy,fast smart thinking,and enjoying the trade in all that it has to offer in the big picture, (its a way of life not just a job)

LavenderTrucker · Nov 16, 2009

MUSTANGGT said: ↑

I like the way you think LT.
Never took you for a Dog the Bounty Hunter type though.
(wink)
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Yeah, few years back when I was pondering what I wanted to do it was a toss up between becoming a Truck Driver or a Bounty Hunter. LOL Didn't like how I looked in the bullet proof vest and kept zapping myself with the stun gun so I got my cdl. Now I watch Ice Road Truckers. (smile)

horse-sense · Nov 16, 2009

lavendertrucker said: ↑

what is with the myth that you have to start out with one of to those cdl mill trainng companies?
I don't understand why someone entering a new career would not set themselves up for success. If i wanted to be a lawyer, i would attend the best college i could, if i wanted to become a photo journalist again, i would seek out the best path.
If you want to become a successful professional truck driver, do your research, attend a top quality school, then apply to smaller, local companies. Granted, thes smaller are not hiring 40 to 60 newbies a week, and they are not always set up online so that you can apply in your pajamas using your laptop while watching "dog the bounty hunter" on t.v.. No, you have to get up early, shower, get presentable, gather you school transcripts and all and go in and talk to them. Sure, you wll get turned down, some will never hire a newbie, some aren't hiring at the time, some wll consider it, and so on. You may have to do this a few days in a row. However, after you get hired and begin your career as a truck driver, you will be better off then the drivers that got hired in an hour by a training company, and you stand a better chance of making it in this indusrty.

Truck driving involves making good sound judgments. Obviously the decision to go through a cdl mill and work for a training company that has a turnover rate of drivers at and over 100% shows a lack of sound judgment making skills, which is why for so many it is only the first bad decision in a line of bad decisions they will make. Like, not getting to to look when backing, taking a turn too fast, not budgeting their finances on the road, turning down this load, or thinking they can deliver that load on time, and so on.

Look, it is your future, your career, your life, take the wheel and be in charge, or put it in the hands of a company that doesn't care, whatever you choose you are the one that has to live with it. I believed i was worth more, capable of more and deserved more so i invested in myself and went to a good school and got hired on with a smaller company that treats me and all it's drivers well.
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what small co are you referencing?

DeaconScott · Nov 16, 2009

Are there any small companies that actually hire untrained seekers of CDL's?

MUSTANGGT · Nov 16, 2009

LavenderTrucker said: ↑

Yeah, few years back when I was pondering what I wanted to do it was a toss up between becoming a Truck Driver or a Bounty Hunter. LOL Didn't like how I looked in the bullet proof vest and kept zapping myself with the stun gun so I got my cdl. Now I watch Ice Road Truckers. (smile)
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Probably the wise choice.
I'm not even brave enough to watch Ice Road. I get Wyoming flashbacks.

WanabeTrucker · Nov 19, 2009

The only small local companies that will hire a screwbie such as myself is a straight truck company. Unless you are in the right place at the right time. I have applied at over 15 companies and the only company to call me back was a large CDL mill type company. Lucky for me I have my CDL already just no experience which means I will have to start here or be forced to stay unemployed for longer then I have been. Some people don't have a choice, if I could go to a smaller company I would but I am not able to and that's just how the cookie crumbles...

Forgot to mention I was denied by 3 local jobs and 2 big companies.

RickG · Nov 19, 2009

vicsgto said: ↑

THANKS FOR SOME INCITE ON CAPS--WHEW-- THOUGHT I WAS CONVICTED CAPITAL USER I WILL STILL USE CAPS, MY EYES APPROVE OF IT AND MOST PEOPLE JUST GO WITH THE FLOW AND NOT SO EASILY OFFENDED AND ACHING TO FIND FAULT WITH SUCH A MINOR ISSUE
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Don't be inciting anything . The staff frowns upon it .

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