Profile For Delco Dave

Sorry, I should have been more specific. My comment regarding character and commitment was focused only on his interaction with the company after the fact.

Offering to go out of your way to make this happen shows a lot about your character and commitment. Great move!!!

Congratulations!!!

Glad training went smooth for you!

Nice! Long and heavy.

Wish you good weather and Safe travels

Whatcha hauling?

Thanks for the updates! Sounds like you have a solid class of serious people. Great atmosphere to learn in. Everyone who attends their training program raves about how great it is. ROEHL and SWIFT are at the top of my hope I get accepted list due to their training programs and work opportunities in my home area (Philly suburbs).

Best of luck to you, I will be following closely

Moe, go onto ziprecruiter and enter amazon delivery into search bar. There will be listings for Amazon itself as well as their contractors. Pay in Philly area is $16-20 hr, roughly 50 hrs per week

On top of what Spaceman stated, you need to get daily driving experience to build your basic skills. Try looking into local non-CDL delivery jobs in vans or small trucks. Driving with weight either in the truck or being towed changes how the vehicle can be driven. With weight you need more room to stop and you have to take turns slower. You also need to learn how to rely on your side mirrors to be aware of whats around you and to reverse into a spot. Local Mulch/top soil delivery job would be good to learn these skills, the trucks are small enough for a new driver to handle but hold enough weight for you to get a feel for it

Old School, I think you do a great job expressing the concepts through a written format. Unfortunately, some people are so hard headed no one can get through to them. I appreciate all your posts and articles, especially the ones regarding productivity. Maybe being a small business owner makes these concepts clear to me. I understand what your saying 100%. I’m sure my work ethic and drive to be the best I can be would have led me in the right direction, but you have laid out an outline for success so all new drivers can start working towards the top tier from day one.

Thank you for being here for us and sharing your keys to success

In my opinion, $800 a week as an inexperienced employee learning a new trade is pretty good! I know you cant make that kind of dough as a rookie in the labor trades

I’ve been reading/studying chunks of the PA manual and high road program since October. Every so often I take a practice test to see how its sinking in. I will spend a day or 2 reading the manual over and over again before the test so everything is fresh when I sit down

I guess the safe play is to just be ready for the permit test, apply for training, get the information from recruiters, then go take test next day in your home state if it will transfer. No sense in paying for it and taking it twice

Very good questions! I’m in the same boat, planned on having as much in hand as possible before applying for company training. I figured the permits and licenses would transfer anywhere in the US Due to the companies only having training facilities in certain states and the fact that all the states share driving records through the federal government.

Reason I ask is I’ve been in landscaping and construction work for the past 27 years, I have never really watched what I ate cause I consistently burned more calories and carbs then I could eat. Now that I am planning to go into trucking, I wont be getting all that exercise anymore and I am trying to adjust my diet so I dont gain a ton of weight. I’m 45yrs old and been 6’3” 220 my entire adult life, would like to stay close to that weight.

Hey PackRat, I understand staying away from carbs but why limited veggies and no fruits? Aren’t they healthy space filling options?

Being a landscaper, I have a lot of ice driving experience! I’m the guy who has to go put the salt and calcium down for everybody.

Hey Rob, Sorry, No, Not immediately! I wouldn’t chance getting stuck on the shoulder or worse, hit. I should have said crawl to next safe place and wait for salters but I figured that was common knowledge!

I would pull over and hang tight until the salt trucks come by, then continue behind them. Granted, I live in PA, there are fleets of DOT trucks in every county. Might not be the same out your way

Gotcha Errol, thanks for clarification! I absorbed a ton of information that day. I was bound to miss something after 2 weeks. Repetition is key to learning in this career.