Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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Renting an apt while on the road
Or find a Roomies house, rent a single lockable room in a house/apartment instead of a whole apartment.
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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Well this chapter of my life is over!
So you had Pinkle... what's this one? the shed colours look like a blood clot maroon almost, but it's pretty black in the outside shots... You got the Dark Knight now? :P
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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If you have an outside-USA commercial truck licence, you can convert that to a US commercial licence of the same class (NZ Class 4 to US CDL-B, Aussie MC to US CDL-A etc) in a FEW states, but not all states...
Hitting google while I had a Green Card lottery application in found Georgia for one allows non-US commercials to US commercials with no down time...
If you get a US CDL-A by converting your non US licence, then you could probably skip the schools, but you'd still need to do the company training/teaming with a tutor.
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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This is what trucking does to marriages!
Someone's in trouble!
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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Do I push for what I want pretty badly or do I lay low and say nothing?
I think I understood about half of your NZ trucker speak. What's a "bonnet?"
Head-bump
For you Americanese speakers, it translates as Hood :D Us English speakers call it a Bonnet :D it's the long bit out front keeping the rain off the engine. :D
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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Do I push for what I want pretty badly or do I lay low and say nothing?
Good Luck :D
Steal it by ll means :D I stole it from another anyway so easy come, easy go :D I used to be a Kirby salesman, door to door selling vacuums and carpet shampoo accessories, You never met such an upbeat bunch of guys in your life :D Brad DiNunzio's the one I stole it from :D
The tractor Trailer is a Kenworth K200, they still make new COE's in Aussie. New Argosies, new K104/K108/K200, Due to rules and regulations here limiting overall length, a meter removed from the bonnet means a meter of load space added to the payload :D
I'm only driving a Nissan Diesel Condor right now however... Class 2 box body 15 tonner, 30,000-ish pounds, until i get my Class 4.
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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Do I push for what I want pretty badly or do I lay low and say nothing?
They can't say Yes unless you ask!
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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First day of work over today, ain't too bad, a few aches from unaccustomed exertion after sitting around at school too much and a couple weeks of just knocking on doors distributing CVs.
Tomorrow I'll be doing some of the driving, getting used to the truck.
For those who care, It's a Nissan Diesel Condor. 15500 Gross Vehicle Mass, 7700 Tare.
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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Thanks Old School.
Which Uni did your friend go to? There are two down here, Canterbury Uni and Lincoln Uni, Cantab is the main academic one, business, law etc while Lincoln is an Ag uni, like Texas Ag, Vet school, soil ecology, Ag science, etc.
My brother went to Lincoln and did an B.Ag.Sci and his Fiancee went to Cantab for a B.com in Accounting. So while one runs the farm the other can keep the books :D
Me? I went to Waikato Management School at the U of Waikato for a BMS in Marketing and Human Resources. All my family went to different unis :D My older sister to Uni of Auckland for premed and Ophthalmology while my lil sister went south to Otago U in Dunedin for a B.Sci in Human Bio. A pretty varied lot, and only my brother is working in the scope of his degree... Farm hand, part on the family farm and part down the road at a station owned by one of the church guys.
Now the Eye doc is a farm manager, the Biochemist is a McDonalds manager and I've chucked management/marketing for trucking, after a stint on the farm and in China.
Posted: 10 years, 3 months ago
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The DAC Report
It's just as legal as Credit Reporting companies... default on a loan and your credit tanks, crash your truck and your DAC tanks.
Same difference.