Wannabe questions

There are a lot of companies out there that will have you home every or every other weekend. Check out Maverick Transportation. Looks as if they pay a good rate too.

 

YuP!
I have an idea.
Let me illustrate my idea this way ------

Y'all have an ailment that requires surgery and the surgeon took the crash course in medicine. Now, go to sleep --- and if you wake up, y'all might be cured.

It flat amazes me that wannaBees and newBees want to be on the fast track to easy money, but they're not all that interested in receiving proper training.

IMO, if y'all can't afford to pay your dues, y'all oughta forget Big truck truckin'.

Do y'all think Big truck truckin' is so easy that even a caveman can do it --- with only a few weeks of training?
Wake up and get real!

 

SHocker - I hear yah.

Even at my age, I'm willing to get dirty and haul. If I have to. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna do my best to get the cushy job at the outset. I just don't think it's my right.

On the other hand - if I wanted to split hairs and be a twiddlehead, I could say "Trucking" is easy. It's the stopping and starting that make it hard!

And I still can't parallel park for sour beans

 

Shux Howdy, Lurch ---- you're STILL a kid!

Oh, don't get me wrong, amigo.
Big truck truckin' IS easy ---- once one receives the proper training --- which usually takes YEARS, not weeks or even months.
And, for SOME, it's fun and rewarding, --- after training.

Save those "sour beans", Lurch.
Store 'em in your bunk.
With horseradish and ketchup, they make a pretty dad-gummed good meal when you're stuck up there on I-80
when they close the Interstate due to bad weather.
And, as an added bonus --- y'all can freeze 'em in the can and serve 'em like a popsicle.
Ummmmmmmmmm

Pass the Bean-0.
And crack the vents.

 

Sure - I still think of myself as somewhere between the age of 25 and 600. Depends on the time of day. My DL is a bit more precise than that, though. <Sigh> At least my wife (3 years the younger) has a LOT more gray hair than I do - even if you count my beard!

Actually, I was just having a bit of fun there. I've never thought the job was easy - even when looking up at the cab from my 4-wheeler. Now I know even better that I did then.. and it's only going to get wors.. er .. better.

That's just plain nasty. Funny, yes, but nasty. But for me, beans are pretty safe. It's raisins that are dangerous. I wonder if I can teflon-coat the inside of the cab...

 

I wasn't kiddin', Lurch --- I was bein' serious.
It IS an easy job,......... errrrr, ....... that is, lifestyle.
And, with your mind-set, I'm sure you'll find my words to be twue. I'll bet you'll even ENJOY Big truck truckin'.
Mark my words.

If I was of a mind to team drive a Big truck, I'd hope for a team driver like you, beard and all ------ you see, I'm bearded too.
It's twue!
It's twue!

 

Shock

Sure - there's easy and there's easy. Most jobs are easy, once you are familiar with them - but that's why I'm most interested in flatbed/heavy haul. The *truck* part is (or will be, by the time I have experience enough to get that kind of job) pretty easy. The challenge of securing loads.. that should be FUN

Dad always said: If the job is boring, or the job isn't fun, it's time to leave.

 

Lurch/Shock

I do see you guys point and agree to a point.

If I may add a larger view....................

Society people as a whole.........We raise our kids to beleive you can be what ever you want, have what ever you want, but in tha last 10-20 years those statement s have not included working hard to achieve them.
From our parents and the generattion before them that statement was not said without limitations.............

We live in a society where both parents (majority speaking cause I don't remember the stats) families don't sit down at dinner and talk about life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. (metaphorically speaking) We have become detached from our own families so we wonder why our kids go out and re-enact scenes of (Grand Theft Auto)

This aspect compounded by the economy / jobless market and more importantly the few fortunate/gifted people who are stars whether it's sports, movies, business. Dollar signs are repeatedly glamorized in the media, but they do not emphasize to our children the work that it took to get there. Kids graduating high school wanting to skip college so they can go right to the pro's- for the money for the life for the fame.....

When you combine this influx of mentality, of society on top of folks who are in need of a job to support a families etc. their is a sense of urgency by most people to be able to make the most money they hear or feel they can. Not all motivations are for the right reasons I certainly admit, so with that said..............................>

Just my few words.............

 

Yeah, there's more to it than that, of course. Such as parents taking responsibility for their children. Small things, such as discipline, are essential. I don't mean punishment, necessarily, though that's part of it. But establishing rules and sticking to them. For instance, my 16 year old son goes to bed at 21:00 on school nights. 21:30 on weekends. We expect to know where either boy is when he's not at home. And so on. Yet, just down the street from us, I see 5 and 6 year olds playing in the street after midnight. Parents inside watching TV. I wonder how productive THOSE kids are going to be when they grow up.

True - and the media never say how much work that star had to put into BECOMING that good. My favorite is Michael Jordan. He wanted to be good at basketball - and he wasn't. So he worked his butt off and became (arguably, and I'm biased) the best NBA basketball player in the modern age. But you don't hear about that.

The other thing about star status - very very very few who reach that point treat it as any more than a goal, in and of itself. They don't approach it as "I want to be the best <insert whatever here> I can be". They approach it as "I want to be a star". There is a significant difference between the two.

For normal people, a career is 30-40 years or so. In sports, 10 years is a long time, so you make what you can, since there's no guarantee of work after sports. Of course, there IS work - or, at least, income. Seminars, public speaking, books etc. Not to mention organizations that would be happy to hire you for your past. (I used to periodically run into a retired Denver Bronco at lunch. I think he's a lawyer now... not bad for a lineman)

In other words, there's no true justification for paying a 'star' anything like that they're paying nowadays. Does paying Joe Dribbler $10M a year actually pay for itself? Does he draw $10M in additional revenue for the owner/team? Can you say... *NO*?

Nope - no argument. None at all. The problem IS the perceived need to make as much now as you can possibly squeeze from the system... but without the willingness to hunker down in the mud and work for it.

In this case, I can - and do - point the finger of blame straight at FDR. The man created the welfare system - which (aside from being unneccessary) over the past 60 years has taught a significant portion of our population that you do NOT need to work for your money. You are obviously ENTITLED to a free lunch. You can expect to be CEO (or at least senior management) of a large company without having to slog in the trenches.

Oh heck - I got on my soapbox. Sorry. But I'm not gonna erase it.