Hi guys,
Here are some new interesting developments, so I was "pre hired" on by US Xpress which is cool.
Then I was also being heavily considered by a charter bus company in Lexington, Ohio they seemed fairly serious about hiring me especially after I told them I already have taken and passed the passenger bus test, they liked that quite a bit ha-ha.
Then today I got a call from a beer company I applied to work at 2-3 weeks ago they wanted to talk to me about being a driver helper.
My gut says while it's dedicated over the road far from home US Xpress maybe the best option. The bus company wouldn't be bad and the quality of life in bus is far superior to that of OTR trucking there's no real debate on that, a guy in my class is a 26 year veteran of the charter bus industry and he told us how it is working for the bus companies and he said flat out last week they had us staying at a Westin Hotel in Washington DC, you don't get that to much with trucking. He said they don't always stay at nice hotels like the Westin, but they stay at okay places in general.
He said bus really isn't bad like if you have a group in Florida once you drop them off at whatever amusement park they are supposed to go to or where ever your pretty much on your own and can do what ever just make sure your back in time to pick them up at the end of the day. It really doesn't sound like a bad life.
That being said however bus experience is only good in the bus and maybe some of the class B world. Actually I have no real beef with the class B world I know there is a cement truck company in Cleveland that is always looking for Class A or Class B drivers, same with a lot of the garbage truck companies.
That's another good question what do you guys think of the garbage truck companies? I know garbage truck is mostly class B work and it's pretty much local, the one thing about garbage truck is, I mean I've never heard of a slow down in the garbage truck business garbage is like death and taxes it's pretty much a certainty.
The beer company, I don't know my truck driving needs some polishing, I can pass the CDL test when it's time, but I could use some more work on driving and getting over the initial nervousness and as we have talked about already beer companies are not really in business to break in new people, freight companies like your Schneider's and Werner's while there in business to move freight they have had to take to breaking in new people not that every trainer is good, but to me I guess the text book traditional route seems to be the way things are going. I mean in my case anything I ever got good at I was really bad at in the beginning. I am by no means a natural to truck driving ha-ha oh goodness gravy my first couple times behind the wheel out on the road I was a wreck. The third time out in the truck though I was better not nearly as bad, it wasn't perfect, but I was less nervous and was better at shifting up and was thinking of the time Sugarfoot told me "I know your new, but really try hard not to freewheel." so I was conscious of all of that and doing my best not to freewheel.
The thing about the beer company, is I'm not sure that it's the best way to spend my time, even with a CDL I wouldn't be worth very much to them as a driver because of the sheer lack of experience and being a route helper which is what I have originally applied for isn't really a job that pays all that great, so I'm thinking that might just be a sideways move. I'm half tempted to figure if US Xpress is willing to let me work out the kinks on there dime, then I guess that's probably where I should go, it's only 12-24 months at US Xpress it's not forever I'll make the most of it, beats being miserable and then I'll have some experience under my belt and go from there.
Mike
Here are some new interesting developments, so I was "pre hired" on by US Xpress which is cool.
Then I was also being heavily considered by a charter bus company in Lexington, Ohio they seemed fairly serious about hiring me especially after I told them I already have taken and passed the passenger bus test, they liked that quite a bit ha-ha.
Then today I got a call from a beer company I applied to work at 2-3 weeks ago they wanted to talk to me about being a driver helper.
My gut says while it's dedicated over the road far from home US Xpress maybe the best option. The bus company wouldn't be bad and the quality of life in bus is far superior to that of OTR trucking there's no real debate on that, a guy in my class is a 26 year veteran of the charter bus industry and he told us how it is working for the bus companies and he said flat out last week they had us staying at a Westin Hotel in Washington DC, you don't get that to much with trucking. He said they don't always stay at nice hotels like the Westin, but they stay at okay places in general.
He said bus really isn't bad like if you have a group in Florida once you drop them off at whatever amusement park they are supposed to go to or where ever your pretty much on your own and can do what ever just make sure your back in time to pick them up at the end of the day. It really doesn't sound like a bad life.
That being said however bus experience is only good in the bus and maybe some of the class B world. Actually I have no real beef with the class B world I know there is a cement truck company in Cleveland that is always looking for Class A or Class B drivers, same with a lot of the garbage truck companies.
That's another good question what do you guys think of the garbage truck companies? I know garbage truck is mostly class B work and it's pretty much local, the one thing about garbage truck is, I mean I've never heard of a slow down in the garbage truck business garbage is like death and taxes it's pretty much a certainty.
The beer company, I don't know my truck driving needs some polishing, I can pass the CDL test when it's time, but I could use some more work on driving and getting over the initial nervousness and as we have talked about already beer companies are not really in business to break in new people, freight companies like your Schneider's and Werner's while there in business to move freight they have had to take to breaking in new people not that every trainer is good, but to me I guess the text book traditional route seems to be the way things are going. I mean in my case anything I ever got good at I was really bad at in the beginning. I am by no means a natural to truck driving ha-ha oh goodness gravy my first couple times behind the wheel out on the road I was a wreck. The third time out in the truck though I was better not nearly as bad, it wasn't perfect, but I was less nervous and was better at shifting up and was thinking of the time Sugarfoot told me "I know your new, but really try hard not to freewheel." so I was conscious of all of that and doing my best not to freewheel.
The thing about the beer company, is I'm not sure that it's the best way to spend my time, even with a CDL I wouldn't be worth very much to them as a driver because of the sheer lack of experience and being a route helper which is what I have originally applied for isn't really a job that pays all that great, so I'm thinking that might just be a sideways move. I'm half tempted to figure if US Xpress is willing to let me work out the kinks on there dime, then I guess that's probably where I should go, it's only 12-24 months at US Xpress it's not forever I'll make the most of it, beats being miserable and then I'll have some experience under my belt and go from there.
Mike
