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Any truck drivers here?
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:17 am
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:17 am
Potentially looking into getting my CDL and ideally I'd like to drive locally and be able to get home each day. Seems like there's no shortage of jobs out there so I wouldn't think it'd be hard to get one. I've heard some people get a salary while others get paid by their loads, but I really have no clue.
Anyone with experience or advice?
Anyone with experience or advice?
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Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:18 am to dualed
I have a F-tree fiddy with truck nuts. Does that count?
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:20 am to dualed
No, this is the OT
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:20 am to bountyhunter
Only if you work hotshot, in which case I'd be interested as well 
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:22 am to dualed
I used to drive OTR and locally a few years ago and it was my experience that local routes were hard to come by unless you had experience.I drove for 2 years before I could land a local route.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:23 am to dualed
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others get paid by their loads
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:32 am to dualed
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Potentially looking into getting my CDL
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I really have no clue.
Sounds like you have some googling to do my friend
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:37 am to dualed
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Only if you work hotshot, in which case I'd be interested as well
Hotshot is where its at
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:38 am to dualed
I worked for a Food Delivery company for 2 years. Started out as a driver helper and then eventually got on a French Quarter route 2 days a week and a New Orleans Route 2 days a week and helped 1 or 2 other days. I enjoyed it, work as fast or slow as you want and I was in the best shape of my life. As far as pay we got paid hourly to start but then you get paid by the route. The route gets paid a daily rate, a per pc rate and per mile.
I do have some friends that haul haz-mat but you have to have a few years experience driving before they you can get a haz-mat job.
I do have some friends that haul haz-mat but you have to have a few years experience driving before they you can get a haz-mat job.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:39 am to Faceplant
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Hotshot is where its at
Hotshot is dead in the oilfield.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:41 am to dualed
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Potentially looking into getting my CDL
What are you going to do when self driving vehicles put you out of work?
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:44 am to dualed
when you can drive a truck, you've got a job my friend
Posted on 3/19/18 at 7:49 am to DaBike
quote:still going to need a warm body to unload/load,refuel etc...so that is still a good ways off, fricking debbie downer.
What are you going to do when self driving vehicles put you out of work?
and be glad for that...you think shipping is expensive now,just wait until the self driving stuff actually starts coming in to play
you'll probably wish it hadn't. 
Posted on 3/19/18 at 8:19 am to dualed
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Potentially looking into getting my CDL and ideally I'd like to drive locally and be able to get home each day.
If you go through with this just remember: stay out of the inside lane :p
Posted on 3/19/18 at 8:21 am to dualed
How's your driving record?
Keep your driving record clean, be able to pass a drug test,be dependable, and don't complain too much (you have to complain some or you can't be a driver).
There are tons and tons of driver jobs but you can't pick and chose starting out. Do the above and drive for a few years and you can start to get selective and eventually land the job where you stay home and make good money.
Keep your driving record clean, be able to pass a drug test,be dependable, and don't complain too much (you have to complain some or you can't be a driver).
There are tons and tons of driver jobs but you can't pick and chose starting out. Do the above and drive for a few years and you can start to get selective and eventually land the job where you stay home and make good money.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 8:25 am to dualed
Get your hazmat and tanker endorsement. Get trained, get experience and then try getting onto a private fleet, preferably a chemical manufacturing company.
Make 95k+ with great benefits and retirement.
Until then keep your nose clean, you’re gonna need a clean record
Make 95k+ with great benefits and retirement.
Until then keep your nose clean, you’re gonna need a clean record
Posted on 3/19/18 at 8:28 am to dualed
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I've heard some people get a salary while others get paid by their loads
I’m not exactly a truck driver, but I do pay your mom per load.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 8:35 am to dualed
Some trucking companies are so desperate for drivers that they will pay and enroll a person into a truck driving school to get CDL's.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 9:09 am to dualed
My cousin started out driving cross country for a large trucking company. Pay was not the best he sucked it up for a few years to get experience along with they paid off his trucking school. Then with that company he got a regional route delivering doors to Homecenters and was off every weekend. He loved that driving position. He did pretty good just not as well as he is doing now.
He got into oilfield hot shot work and did really well until the market tanked.
Then he went on his own doing hot shot driving hay and Ag products from Texas to the Midwest. He seems to love that and makes decent money after paying his operation cost (truck, trailer, insurance, repairs, etc).
You can make what you want out of it you just have to pay your dues for the first few years.
He got into oilfield hot shot work and did really well until the market tanked.
Then he went on his own doing hot shot driving hay and Ag products from Texas to the Midwest. He seems to love that and makes decent money after paying his operation cost (truck, trailer, insurance, repairs, etc).
You can make what you want out of it you just have to pay your dues for the first few years.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 10:37 am to johnnyrocket
If you're willing to start at 3 am and work 12 - 14 hrs a day driving and unloading a truck 12 - 18 stops per day then there are jobs with decent pay that will take on a CDL holder with no experience. You'd be home every night and weekends off. Look into food/drink distribution.
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