Comments By Troy V.

As a skateboard hauler, every 150 miles or 3 hrs I have to stop to check the load and tires. I leave the lights on to make sure they are still working and will always take a swipe at them with my glove if dirty, salty or snowy. Anything I can do to make sure the LEO'S and DOT officers think I am "doing that little extra" that could make the difference between a stop or citation. Don't know if it really makes a difference to them, but it makes me more confident. I also tend to be a bit anal about the small things - just a bit OCD.

I do the exact same thing. Anytime I am stopped for anything even if its a rest area to take a **** I walk around and wipe them off. I think thats a pretty good habit to have.

Maybe try to find a dispatcher job or a diesel mechanic.

I want to thank you all for your comments. I will give CRE a chance and we'll see what happens. In my opinion companies are not very different from one another ( learned that working for JB Hunt, US Express, Swift and Schneider National) so I think the idea will be to stick with one for the time being so I can gain the experience I need right know and we will see. Time will tell.

Thanks again to all.

Just a quick question, Do you have any cash saved up? Reason I ask is if you have a private school near you ( I dont know where you live ) then you can go take a refresher course there and that might open up possibilities for you.

Congrats and good luck! Drive safe!

Troy, ya' jinxed me! I sit here in western Kansas awaiting Petro to come by and solve my suspected "gel" issue. I doubled the amount of additive (per the companies suggestion) on my last fuel stop yesterday and was then told by my DM (this morning) that at my temps (-13) I should double that. At least I was able to nurse it to a small truck stop so I can go off duty instead of burning my 70 on the side of I-70. I am thinking that I will go with another brand of anti-gel and see how that works.

Gotta love this life style

Ouch man! Sorry about that ;) Hope they get it fixed soon for ya!

Troy, breakdowns are just a part of trucking.....if ya got a truck, you are gonna have breakdowns...

THATS TRUCKIN'

All ya can do is laugh about it right. Otherwise its gonna be a lonnnnngggg career :)

Well everything was going good.....until.....my starter broke so here I sit again lol. Ahhhh I love this stuff!! Wont be fixed till sometime in the morning tomorrow. Anyone have an old truck that was put together better then these newer ones? lol.

I have a wife and 2 beautiful daughters age 6 and 7. Its hard but being in a dead end manufacturing job with my pay maxed out at $12.60 an hour ( after the 10% pay cut we all took ), I just did what I had to do to support my family. Yea right now it sucks but lucky for me I got a normally Mon-Fri gig right out of CDL school where I at least get to be home on the weekends with them. Its not easy and it never will be.

Im kinda nervous as to why anyone would ask this personally. To me this type of question leaves me to believe drugs were used and your worried about what kind of test there is so you dont get popped with a dirty drop.

One very common scenario is people that have taken other people's prescriptions. For instance, say your wife goes through a minor surgery and gets pain meds but doesn't use them all. So the leftovers sit in the medicine cabinet. A few months later you wind up with an abscess tooth and take a few of those pain pills while waiting for a chance to get to the dentist. That's technically illegal, but it certainly doesn't warrant sending someone to jail or having them black-listed from any decent career for the next 10 years because of a failed drug test. You simply have to wait for the meds to leave your system and that will take a certain amount of time depending on what type of drug test you'll be issued. It might not show up at all in a urinalysis after a few days but might show up for 6-12 months or longer in a hair follicle test.

Ok now that makes sense to me. Thank you for clearing that up. I see that question all the time and I think to myself, um dont do drugs and it wont matter what test there is. Now I understand.

Im kinda nervous as to why anyone would ask this personally. To me this type of question leaves me to believe drugs were used and your worried about what kind of test there is so you dont get popped with a dirty drop.

Anyway I know when I got my job with Modular it was just a urine test. Good luck.