O'Reilly Auto Parts Delivery/Route driver

Yeah I mean 55k a year home everyday with weekends off isn't bad at all but having to do night work is a huge turn off and most major areas you can make that with day work

 

Man, must be more Daywalkers around here than I suspected. Night time's my thing so I think should be okay with my pick of the crop.

 

lots of scary folks at night lol

 

There's no way I would take any trucking job,
No matter who,where,whatever and move my
Whole household in a u haul to the job without
Ever turning a mile for them.

What happens if 3 weeks in you realize it's not
What thought it was or you just hate the job.
Money's not right,
Manager is a butt hole,
Equipment is lacking, anything.
Now your back to square one.

 

That's why I'm finding it hard to really nail down anything at this point. My current job has its bad points. But until something serious enough occurs to where I have to make a "desperation bounce", I'm staying put.
As far as not moving and just commuting out to these jobs, the places I'm applying to are pulling that "domicile" garbage saying that "You're only getting the job if you're willing to relocate".
Small town life is nice, but then like I've mentioned in other posts, we're limited to strict, agriculture related hauling around here. Plenty of other trucks do business here, but of you want to get on with them, you have to move out to them.

 

Lots of things to consider here. Would you be uprooting your family, or are you without family? Do you own, (or buying,) where you currently live? Do you see yourself living where you now live in 5, 10, 20 years? If you really want to stay where you are, are you willing to take whatever comes along to make it there?
And a whole lot of others.
I agree with the poster who said that he wouldn't consider relocating for a new job, without a "trial time" first.

 

I escaped CA after my dad was pressuring me to leave the house.(Think that speech by Chong's dad in "Up in Smoke") So no family or anything like that for me. As for where I'm living right now and if I picture myself being here 5-20 years from now, possibly not. I eventually want to venture away from trucking and the technical training and trade unions are all located in much larger areas. So yeah, I'm definitely bouncing from here once I've got my sights set on a for sure place to go next.
The "trial run" would be great if I could find a way to make it work. Figure a two week notice or leave of absence for a month to make sure it all goes well.

Big thing that's keeping me off of it is my preference for Weds/Thurs off. Keeping after these other, LTL outfits to see if they'll have me.

 

I know in Phoenix it's like $17 per hour and nights which don't bother you. Weekends off, I know you would like Wednesday Thursdays off. Maybe you could work that out with them, maybe not. Plus relocation, that's a tough one.

 

Not to many places will grant loa. Particularly, if they know you are trying another job on for size.

Since you are footloose, you're in much better shape than if you had a family to support. This is a game changer. Just make sure the area you go to has enough jobs that if the first one doesn't work out, you have lots of choices.
Phoenix might be a good choice. Albuquerque not so much.

 

I'll just stay at it until something a little better pops up. Phoenix might be better, but I'm trying to stay away from other Californians. (No disrespect)
If there is one good thing about the fringe lands of eastern NM/west TX, it's that I don't run into too many of them out here.