Quitting one company for another.

I told him that yesterday; would be a lateral move,and open many more doors for his future.

 

I told you yesterday. Scroll up. Better money, more respect, more comraderie, and more opportunities to get into the 'big boy' stuff in the future. OS/OD H/H... a few years down the road, yeah. Read thru their thread 'where is everyone #5' ... and see what those guys are up to , get into, and the time off for the money they make. Had I to start all over again, That'd be me. I've done flatbed as well. Pulled tanks for many years; great money too.

Just trying to get you convinced to hang out with WEL and broaden your 'immediate' horizons, we are.

 

Wish I could do that myself but one of the reasons I got into trucking was for a sit down job.
15 years in warehouses and loading docks have ruined my lower body. I miss the intensive physical activity, I really do, but my body couldn't take it anymore. Bad back, bad knees, bad feet, 2 hernias.

 

Yep, same here... did it for a few years...never pursued it for the physicality and wear and tear already on this old body.

These guys are in their 20's, tho, Z. What stops THEM?!?

 

Laziness? (no offense to you op )
I've seen plenty of people who think "it's a warehouse, how hard can it be?"
It can be the most physically demanding job besides something like construction.

I'm almost 40 now and would work circles around everybody else on the dock loading conveyors like floor loaded trailers (could move over 1000 cases per hour if everybody else could keep up). Always had the managers telling me to slow down because nobody else could keep up. Really pissed me off to the point that I probably could have been fired for cursing them out. I mean, why should I slow down? Make them work faster, we're here to do a job.

I'm the type of person that once I get moving I can keep moving without ever feeling tired and I have a real weak sense of pain so I would push myself as hard as possible every day for 10-12 hours. I'd push myself to the point that after making the half hour drive home I'd stumble around like I was drunk because my legs would be so weak.

I'm paying for it now. I can't even stand still in one spot for more then a few mins without my knees starting to get weak. I've had a knee give out on me a few times when climbing out of my truck, sometimes resulting in falling. Last time in Jan causing a torn ligament in my ankle that is finally almost fully healed. Bought a cane after that but still haven't used it. I should, but I don't know, I just can't bring myself to walking with it or even carrying it around.

Flatbed, being outside away from docks climbing around tarping and strapping a load.
Would love to do it but I don't want the risk of falling off with how my knees are.

 

I am very familiar with Frock Bros.

First class out fit even way way back in the 80's Top equiptment. Particularly picky hiring people I showed up, climbed the three flights of stairs (Hows that for weeding out old 4F heart failures...) and filling out applications and having what would be called visits celebrating their outfit. But nope no hiring. Maybe i was too young. (And probably was to them.)

I never held it against them, just learned to leave them the hell alone LOL. They have probably been in business longer than I have been alive. I do have other ties to New Oxford PA. A sweet little village with a rail crossing on the old WM main and a traffic circle.

 

Many do.. you just saw that with your 'non' 4 days at home... they found you a load. Stand up, stand down, however you want to put it.

Many companies pay decent layover pay during their down times. Varies by company. Would have to check expressly with WEL.