Comments By AJ D.

Subscribing...

It's been a while since I have been on the site and I hope you have all been well. :)

I'm dipping my toe in the water again to see if I want to take this industry on.

I have come across two offers here in Nashville to get trained up ( I'm sure there are more) - PAM and England ...

PAM is giving a $1200 signing bonus and Driver Solutions appear to be involved with the training.

I remember CR England being on the Radar and a fairly solid starting point, but I don't remember any insight on PAM.

Any advice on these two outfits and getting this nutty ball rolling again would be greatly appreciated.

Grazie for any and all help :)

Keep us posted on your mental process through this first year.

Is it what you expected or are you having second thoughts. I just want to know what you're going through emotionally.

thanks for sharing :)

That's sad to hear. That's why I was wondering.

With the advent of Cell Phones, we, as a nation, have pulled back inside.

IT's not just the trucking industry.

Stories from the road.... :)

Keep us posted

Dude, I'm not going to ask you what you guys were on to days straight without sleep. lol !!

OK, yea I am.... lol....

My relationship to Brett is the same relationship Brett has with everyone on this site. We are experienced drivers giving those new to the trucking industry a helping hand down the right path into trucking.

All the veteran drivers here on the site knows how hard it is to get the right info before starting down this path. We have been there and done that. We did not have the benefit of this wonderful site before we started. We learned through trial and a lot of error.

We have seen drivers come and go for various reasons and most have no idea where to turn or where to start except to just wing it and then the end up back home mad cause it was not what they thought is was or through inexperience really messed up and now don't even want to try it again. We hope to help new drivers avoid the pot holes we drove through years ago and give them a smoother ride into the trucking industry.

The trucking industry, at times, can be an unforgiving mistress. We just want you to be as prepared as you can be before starting down this road. Do I regret how I started out in truck? Nope. Running 8500 miles a week as a solo driver. 3 log books. 4,5 and 6 days without sleep. Running well over 100 mph through the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico and west Texas. Seeing some amazing sun rises and sunsets in the middle of the desert. Running back roads from coast to coast to avoid scale houses. Back then asking on the CB if a scale house was open or closed was a very serious question. Not like now a days. Running with a group of 10 to 15 trucks all night and day and not one person was a CB Rambo and we talked all night long and easily put 1000 miles behind ya before you knew it.........

Do I regret any of it? Nope. It was the way trucking was and you fit in where ya could and learned fast. But it just the way it was.

Now a days trucking has changed. It is the way it is and it will never go back to the way it was. You here all the time drivers saying it was better back then. Maybe or maybe not. But the one thing that held true back then still holds true today. Trucking always changes and never goes backwards to the way it used to be.

I just thought of this last night.

I was a child of the sixties and seventies and remember the whole "keep on truckin' " phase...

are CB's still the communication device of choice by truckers

Thanks, guys :)

Good news, thanks.