what do you do?

[Ozwynn]

yep, I know all those tricks too. Soon it wont matter, the black box is on its way and one of the things that is mandatory with the black box is DOT must have the ability to scan it during a roadside check. and right now there are no miles to run, you better be good at getting the fuel economy too because if you can't maintain 6.5 mpg most companies will get rid of you and it is alot harder than it sounds to average 6.5 across the board (when you are spending on the average 2 days a week waiting for a load). they will make you go to school and you will have to go with a trainer (beings how you got no OTR experience) and you will be starving your first 1 or 2 years because good loads with big miles go to proven reliable drivers ....... just how it goes. more power to you if you can do it...... btw I also grew up in a trucking house hold and i remember the old man saying the same things to me back in 1997 when I got out of the airforce and started driving truck. so good luck but if I was you I would stay with my local job and learn another trade to fall back on durring your "off" season.

 

[midget]

yep, I know all those tricks too. Soon it wont matter, the black box is on its way and one of the things that is mandatory with the black box is DOT must have the ability to scan it during a roadside check. and right now there are no miles to run, you better be good at getting the fuel economy too because if you can't maintain 6.5 mpg most companies will get rid of you and it is alot harder than it sounds to average 6.5 across the board (when you are spending on the average 2 days a week waiting for a load). they will make you go to school and you will have to go with a trainer (beings how you got no OTR experience) and you will be starving your first 1 or 2 years because good loads with big miles go to proven reliable drivers ....... just how it goes. more power to you if you can do it...... btw I also grew up in a trucking house hold and i remember the old man saying the same things to me back in 1997 when I got out of the airforce and started driving truck. so good luck but if I was you I would stay with my local job and learn another trade to fall back on durring your "off" season.

Depending on if this economy ever gets sorted out I got a job in waitin at the same smaller company the old man works at. Still the old fashioned log books for now and I get along with the management/dispatchers pretty good. Have even done a few Hot shot loads for them round the state and If it wasnt for the Off season I wouldnt want to leave my local job. Its tough when you make good money during the spring and summer busting 55hrs a week average too starving on unemployment in the winter and this is the midwest with LONG winters. Its also crossed my mind to move farther south and get a similar job to get the best of both worlds and more wheeling season but with the economy the way it is to just up and move away from a good job is a hard desicion to make.

 

[dburton07]

dont ship with fedex, ever.

Worked for them loading trucks at the LL Bean Distrobution Center here in Maine, for a week and a half.....I will never ship with them again........

I am a machinist. After being laid off from GE a month ago, I start my new job today in the manufacturing room at Lanco Assembly Systems. Pays decent, 4 10 hour days 1pm-11pm, 3 day weekend, overtime on Friday and Saturday if I want it. Me and two other guys are second shift, in the entire plant. I'll be running a Bridgeport with the Prototrac set up and get trained on the HAAS VMC they have too. They program with MasterCAM X3 and I am familiar with X2.

One more class to finish my Associates degree in Machine Tool Technology. Might go back part time for Mechanical Engineering in a year or 2.

I've worked at a couple machine shops in highschool during the summer, worked at Shaws for 3 years as well.

 

[864x42.9tsr]

i work for the department of defense, at a naval base near by building and demiling explosives (c4, 105 mm 155mm projectiles, missal jamming units, and ect. its a good job always exciting lol.