Comments By Jason C. aka Pirate Trucker

Oh I thought this was where you griped about recruiters luring their face off. Have I got a story for ya...nah I won't pirate the page.

Check out Cypress. I know there are bad reviews on the inter web but most are older than 2009. They revamped the work and I have heard nothing but good from them. After I put a year in I am going to be looking at them, but I hear they may take newbies. It is flatbed and it's a family biz so you are home most weekends and I think they start 30cpm. I live in Jacksonville where the home office is but they have a depot in south FL also.

Yeah I kinda figured that.

Um, okay. I sent this list a recruiter with Driver Solutions and his response was to call him? Why would they not want to email the answers back? I am concerned now.

Wow! Okay. So when I went to beginner racing school when I was younger it doesn't mean the same thing. There you just keep accelerating while throwing the clutch and shifting. That is going to take a little practice. Maybe I should try it on my little rodeo so I can get used to pedaling the clutch like that.

I have been in the mortgage/banking/customer service industry for 15 years. About a year and a half ago I was laid off from one of the largest banks in the nation, been on unemployment ever since. This week is the last time I get to claim for unemployment, so some decisions had to be made. I have to provide some kind of income for my wife and 3 kids. We had to drain my 401k to pay our attorney for our bankruptcy, debts and bills had overwhelmed us. What to do next?

Having no college degree I have been turned down for many positions and was getting frustrated by rejection. So I made a list of everything I was good at, and broke it down into what I love to do(always enjoy your work). I am a bit of a shade tree mechanic but schooling takes several years to get ASC Certification. Good with a hammer but not a lot of construction jobs. An excellent artist but not good enough to get into an art gallery. Love to drive, even took a beginner race school course when I was younger but expensive to go that route. What about driving a semi? Well, schooling is relatively inexpensive and doesn't take long. So, my mind has been made up for about a week now.

My wife cashed in her 401k and we started looking at our options to get started. I found TT and have been researching and learning every thing I can. Considering that I will not have any income for a while we opted to look at company paid training, that way my expenses would be available and the available income for the family will be there. I decided on Driving Solutions to place me in a program and to line up a position once training will be completed. I am currently waiting on their approval but it looks like I will be going to C1 training out of Indy and then possibly USA Truck after that. More to come once I know more.

I have driven a manual transmission ever since I started learning to drive. Is there really much difference going to a big rig other than the shift pattern?

Losing half a pound a day is not crash dieting. It's actually a safe rate to drop weight at.

Awesome idea. And the name of the movie is "Little Shop of Horrors". A cult classic staring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, John Candy, and many others.

Business do as business wants. It's the same in corporate desk jobs. I worked for JPMorgan and they had no issue with a situation I had when I worked in mortgage servicing, but BOA had an issue with it. Just try elsewhere.