Comments By Plumcrazy Preston

Anyway, I'll continue to play nice

I never caught the jack ever.

I use the handle Plumcrazy Preston here coz Preston is my middle name and Mopar Plum Crazy paint is my favorite vehicle color. https://www.carthrottle.com/post/plum-crazy-is-the-only-colour-your-should-consider-for-your-2016-dodge-charger-or-challenger/

Plumcrazy,

What branch of the Military were you in and for how long?

US Army, 8 years

I believe in reincarnation. If not in this lifetime maybe a future one I might drive trucks unless Star Wars type vehicles replace them by then. Heck, cargo might even by then be beamed from one place to another Scotty style!

As I was saying, I will think this whole thing over some more before judging this fine craft of gear-floating. Please drive carefully, slow down on greasy roads and be safe!! Trucking, like soldiering which I have been already, probably isn't for most people. Somebody's got to do it though.

Get off the "pipe" and go do something useful with your life. Your trolling is getting boring.

You are going to hate trucking too.

Primarily because of the time commitment. You will no longer have the time to do what it is you do best.

Don't kid yourself. There's not a soul here who gives any credibility to your comments.

No trolling time for sure! But trolling pays no money. It pays no bills. Well, for now I'll sleep on this whole notion of being a "big-diesel jockey" for a spell. I would want to get into a non-driving motor carrier job eventually anyway as logistics manager then truly have valuable home time. I figure some steering wheel experience would lead to a trucking-industry 9-5 desk job with a "major leaguer" like Schneider or somebody. I have a college associates degree in computers already and that is also a boon for being a dispatcher, load planner or logistics specialist.

I want a German Shepherd of my own like Brett Aquila here has one day to walk through my Leave-It-To-Beaver neighborhood after work every evening. Even working a local driving job doesn't leave much valuable quality home time daily to properly raise, enjoy and train pet dogs. There is more to life than roaring diesel engines and traffic jams but as folks here seem to indicate it takes some gear-grinding to one day make the grade.

Don, nobody is asking you to read my stuff. Don't you have some money to make, sir?

You are going to hate trucking too.

Primarily because of the time commitment. You will no longer have the time to do what it is you do best.

Don't kid yourself. There's not a soul here who gives any credibility to your comments.

No trolling time for sure! But trolling pays no money. It pays no bills. Well, for now I'll sleep on this whole notion of being a "big-diesel jockey" for a spell. I would want to get into a non-driving motor carrier job eventually anyway as logistics manager then truly have valuable home time. I figure some steering wheel experience would lead to a trucking-industry 9-5 desk job with a "major leaguer" like Schneider or somebody. I have a college associates degree in computers already and that is also a boon for being a dispatcher, load planner or logistics specialist.

I want a German Shepherd of my own like Brett Aquila here has one day to walk through my Leave-It-To-Beaver neighborhood after work every evening. Even working a local driving job doesn't leave much valuable quality home time daily to properly raise, enjoy and train pet dogs. There is more to life than roaring diesel engines and traffic jams but as folks here seem to indicate it takes some gear-grinding to one day make the grade.

Who in creation is TODD once more?

Who is "in the driver seat" so to speak, the driver or the carrier? Yes, I do fantasize "being in the driver seat" in a sense. I hate it when bosses are always staring at me up close. I hate to be micromanaged as a worker too.

How many brownie points could I score by not even being a smoker? Non-smokers are less likely to be distracted while driving. This is what auto insurance commercials have been saying for years.

Ok, are REGIONAL jobs also much harder to land than OTR ones? I've been doing some thinking and I might rough it for a year if Regional could be possible career path to local. I might do a stint with regional if push comes to shove and the door is open, or cracked. Could regional driving be a likely open door for a noob? To me, it's still seems much better than OTR. I figure being regional while based in Texas would keep me in the more desirable nearby states to drive still. Flatter and warmer climate, last Deep Freeze week in Tx notwithstanding. None of the hoopla of coastal states, mountainous states or the high crime rates of major cities in anti-gun blue states. I'd want to stick to the more southern red states as a regional driver. I don't see traffic or bridge clearances as being a major problem in these southern states also. It's seems as Texas and neighboring states are quite trucker-friendly, wide open in landscape with little congestion.

Some people here already said it might be hard but not 100% impossible for a greenhorn to land a local job still especially out of CDL school. At times some local outfits might be severely shorthanded and therefore more lenient in hiring and willing to train noobs.

I'm now going to do some reading here on the pros and cons of OTR, regional and local driving.