So YOU want a JOB ...??

Great post, Couldn't have said it better. This is not a job for the weak of hart or spirt.

Semper Fi

 

make sure you dont pull flatbed so you want sit around at the truckstop empty while looking at all the other empty flatbed drivers

 

Thats better and yes 0311
Marine Barracks, Subic Bay PI B co.
B 1/5 Make Peace or Die

 

great advice from all i mean who wants to hire someone coming in looking all sloppy and messy you are a rep for the company and you should act and dress accordingly

 

...and expect to provide THEM a service; not the other way around. Seems like some of the crybabies posts tend to show aggravation because they couldn't have it all THEIR way. I mean, what with them being on a vacation and all...

 

You should have added when in doubt Get Out And Look. It doesn't have to just apply to backing only... Believe me.

 

Some sound advice in here...but I wouldn't expect any less from an old Kentucky boy...lol

Seriously though, a lot of folks join this industry thinking "I can drive" and they're probably right...but if all we did was drive (especially daytime, fairweather driving), most no one would ever get out of trucking. The things that seem to typically make folks quit after a few months are being alone for a week or 2 at a time, sitting for hours in a parking lot or dock waiting to be loaded/unloaded, trying to slide tandems and fifth wheels to axle the truck out in 20 degree weather, poor time management, getting 30 miles down the road to a scale and finding out the shipper overloaded you and having to go back and have it redone, dealing with a smart alleck shipper or broker, irregular work schedules and so on.

Like I've always heard "it takes a special breed to be truck driver". Folks who've never driven or don't know the ins and outs of the job don't understand that.