what do you do?

[GreatWhite]

^to bad they dont have good car audio equipment there

I'am currently working my ass off, working the gayest hours got home at 4am last night trying to become an motion picture electrician. Working on a mini-series called Megastorm at the moment. I'am also taking a class every Monday and Wednesday for residential electricity due to the fluctuating movie and television business. Because lets face it, if you make millions of dollars a year you cant be satisfied with it you must picket and make a whole industry go sour.

 

[sfwjesse]

Manufacturing engineer, supporting injection/transfer molding and assembly and terminations in a small company that makes electrical connections for harsh environments.

 

[resurvey]

Self-employed land surveyor working in northern Wisconsin.

 

[polarbear]

Nursery Production

 

[FCXBronco2]

i work at the local farm and tractor supply store and am also a Firefighter working at getting paid full time instead of part time

 

[midget]

truck driver basically I liked driving and dont like people that much got my liscense riht outta high school and have been driving the last 3 years. I enjoy most of it except the typical BS about being a young guy stealing some old ****ers job....


Right now I drive a concrete ready mix truck

But Im going OTR as soon as I turn 21 better money more hours no arrogant contractors shouting for no reason other than there own stupidity.

 

[Ozwynn]

truck driver basically I liked driving and dont like people that much got my liscense riht outta high school and have been driving the last 3 years. I enjoy most of it except the typical BS about being a young guy stealing some old ****ers job....


Right now I drive a concrete ready mix truck

But Im going OTR as soon as I turn 21 better money more hours no arrogant contractors shouting for no reason other than there own stupidity.

after almost 1.5 million miles and having owned trucks my advise to you is stick with the local job. OTR is not whats you think it is and doesn't pay nearly what you think it does. I have personally seen road expenses go from roughly $20 a day to $40 a day and the food and service has gotten worse. you can try carrying a refrigerator and a microwave but even that gets old after a while. I drove roughly 200,000 miles a year and all it did was cause me to lose my faith in humanity...... after a while you begin to realize just how stupid people are when it comes to driving. OTR companies don't care one Iota about the driver. They talk a good game and preach safety first but at the end of the day it comes down too all you are to them is a warm body to hold the steering wheel. They take a guy that has 16 days of CDL training and stick him in a cab with a guy that has 6 months OTR experience for 3 weeks then turn him loose in his own truck. If i had my way, you would have to drive second seat for a year before you got your own truck then you would have drive first seat for a year. Most OTR drivers want to be dirt devils because of less hours and home every night.


there is no future in OTR anymore. its days are numbered only they don't know it yet, but the green path is going to force trucks off the road and organizations like P.A.T.T. (parents against tired truckers) are going to force an 8 hour work day. how much you think you make then?

you think you don't like arrogant contractors ....... i hated asphalt crews myself......... wait until a dock manager bumps you to the end of the line because he doesn't like your shirt or you sat in a dock all day and are out of hours but you still have to drive 2 hours to the nearest place to park.... DOT don't care that you hod nowhere to park, all the see is a cash cow for their state so they write you the ticket and escort you to a place to park and put a big orange sticker on your window so everybody knows you got a ticket.

 

[Grey_04]

i'm a service manager for a local gm dealership. and yes i'm driving a dururamax and i love it.

 

[wrecking-crew]

i work at my dads demolition company. its fun at first but when its a job its just a job. i also work with my friends selling parts off of cars we buy cheap. just ask me for any part and we'll find it even if we dont personally have it. hand delivered to nj residents only. shipping extra

im also a trained and certified backyard mechanic. im going to uti in exton in sept to be a tech and i be specializin in ford

 

[B2 Addict]

Truck Driver. That is 'till I lost my job. So now I'm unemployed and looking for another job.

Same.

Sick of trucking anyway: too many moron's on the road, & no time to feed my addiction!!



I have never owned my own truck, but other than that I agree 100% with BDAB's post. I couldn't have said it better my friend!! It's sad but true.

 

[Roadkill]

^ +2

The company will preach safety and maintaining legal logs. Then they WILL force you to falsify logs and run. Has happened to me and most others I know that drive. I am looking to try to get into local since it will be around when everything hits the fan.

 

[91redneckranger]

Im the pool guy

 

[jobar]

Full time student, taking day and night classes to become an A&P mechanic.(airplane mechanic) Also will be taking automotive classes by the end of the year, and thinking of aerospace engineering.

 

[Toms01PSD]

im going to uti in exton in sept to be a tech and i be specializin in ford

I don't have personal experience with UTI, but there's a guy I go to community college with that went to UTI here in NC and he said he only turned a wrench ONCE. Big waste of money in his opinion.

 

[midget]

after almost 1.5 million miles and having owned trucks my advise to you is stick with the local job. OTR is not whats you think it is and doesn't pay nearly what you think it does. I have personally seen road expenses go from roughly $20 a day to $40 a day and the food and service has gotten worse. you can try carrying a refrigerator and a microwave but even that gets old after a while. I drove roughly 200,000 miles a year and all it did was cause me to lose my faith in humanity...... after a while you begin to realize just how stupid people are when it comes to driving. OTR companies don't care one Iota about the driver. They talk a good game and preach safety first but at the end of the day it comes down too all you are to them is a warm body to hold the steering wheel. They take a guy that has 16 days of CDL training and stick him in a cab with a guy that has 6 months OTR experience for 3 weeks then turn him loose in his own truck. If i had my way, you would have to drive second seat for a year before you got your own truck then you would have drive first seat for a year. Most OTR drivers want to be dirt devils because of less hours and home every night.


there is no future in OTR anymore. its days are numbered only they don't know it yet, but the green path is going to force trucks off the road and organizations like P.A.T.T. (parents against tired truckers) are going to force an 8 hour work day. how much you think you make then?

you think you don't like arrogant contractors ....... i hated asphalt crews myself......... wait until a dock manager bumps you to the end of the line because he doesn't like your shirt or you sat in a dock all day and are out of hours but you still have to drive 2 hours to the nearest place to park.... DOT don't care that you hod nowhere to park, all the see is a cash cow for their state so they write you the ticket and escort you to a place to park and put a big orange sticker on your window so everybody knows you got a ticket.

I know what Im gettin into I come from a family background of trucking and I know how to "fudge" the books as they say but still its something I want to get into and I would like to turn alot of miles b4 I have a kids so I dont have to miss that.