Hey All

I'm new here and layed-up with a bad knee, soooooo i'm killing time til I'm back on the road again.

Just curious how people here do drive for a living ? :explosion:

And if not what is your occupation?

i did OTR for a while but its been 12 years since now i run heavy road construction equipment building bridges i run cranes mostly the old friction style

I'm only 14 so i just work as a diesel mechanic for my dad in his shop. He owns his own Trucking Company so once in awhile i drive with him and sometimes alone but thats no legal lol. Once i turn 18 i am gonna get my CDL and then drive full time for my dad. I am still deciding if i want to go to wyo-tech for diesel mechanic or not. My dad says if i go he will pay for everything.

I have been "real" OTR for 14 years now. Now I am a web OTR driver for a couple of weeks.... <lolyou>

im 16 and run heavy equipment for my cuz and my friend and help my dad build houses on the side.. were pretty slow right now but after deer season it should pick back up.. and been a OTR trucker for 325 days on the game now! LOL I think im going to go to heavy equipment school just because it looks good on your record and it helps yea get jobs.. I would like to work for LeeWard construction running excavtor in there quarry, only time will tell though i love playing in the dirt though.. LOL

I drive a rock bucket and lowboy local.

Basically the same as Mackman here. Mine isn't a lowboy though, tilt decker that I pull behind me. Sometimes when we ain't too busy, work in the shop, run a backhoe, mini-x, curbmachine or anything else that might come up and need an operator.

BTW, I would stay away from wyo-tech Ghost. Just sayin, but we had a guy go there and he didn't learn a flippin thing other than how to do an oil change. Better off working in your dad's place and learning for free. Everything I have learnt was free knowledge by working in our shop part-time.

I am still in high school, but I am taking a welding class and I work in local welding shop.

welding is a good paying job if you get in the right spot and its fun too.. I enjoy it very much, i weld alot in our autoshop at the school.. Hope it works our for you bud

Thanks Brandon. I'm actually planning on going to college for engineering, but I figured I would need to know how to weld. Plus it is fun.

You don't need to know how to weld to be an engineer, just be good at BS-ing and pretending to know everything even though you know a quarter of what your talking about. :D What type of engineering do you want to do? Drawing house blueprints, designing building/bridge specs, building inspector?

ROFLMAO ROFLMAO what a way to put down his hopes and dreams

I will probably go into electrical and work on medical equipment. I took the welding class because I also thought about going into mechanical.

Grew up on a farm driving tractors and trucks (up to tri-axle)

Apprenticed at a diesel rebuild shop

Drove ambulance and fire apparatus

Went to college to be a shop teacher

Now teach metal shop, drafting, Engineering, Electronics, and Applied Physics at a high school

Now I just tow a "small" setup- 3/4 ton Dodge with 28 ft enclosed race car trailer

I have a lot of friends who drive local and OTR, and I know I couldn't take the stress of doing it every day. Too much legal hassle, to many idiot drivers. My hat is off to the guys who do it!

im not telling you what to do but if you like the idea of welding look into building skyscrapers and other metal based buildings there is alot of job opertunites in that feild of work

Mr. Alco PA1 drives all sorts of trains and a Freightliner truck that he got cheap. He calls the truck "his toy". He used to drive city buses on the side.

hi all im a trucker in uk and have applied to truck in canada havent found a company tho yet

I drive a lowboy and some times a rockbucket also in the winter i drive the iceroad's ......

I drive a 08 Pete pullin Long Combination Vechiles ie twin 40' bottomdumps and lowboys
work for the local road dept so also run heavy equip.
been driving for over 30 years B)

Do you want to drive the Iceroad??

i'm only 15 but have been working with my dad in the shop as a mechanic and plan on driving for daily express hauling oversized loads they have a good program to the truck you drive in one year

Well its good to see some of us who love our jobs and lifestyle.

I've also got 6 years OTR and 8 years with Dump Truck and trailer, cement truck, boom truck, etc.. :blink:

I've been out of the loop for awhile and getting ready to go back OTR now the kids are grown.( 5 years ) B)

OK, I'll bite.
Yes, I did drive, a long time ago.
Local & Over-the-Road from 1968 to 1982.
Back injury forced me to change direction.
College, Computer Science degree. Worked in the computer industry for 23 years. Programer to Systems Engineer, and everything in between.
Semi-Retired, moved to Florida, working part time as a handyman now (hence the handle). Fixing things for all the "More Mature" folk here. ;)

Well I still do not have my CDL. I will be getting it this spring. I used to drive with license tags of J or less so under 26,000 gross vehicle weight. Mainly drove two ton dump trucks and one ton trucks. When I worked for a landscape company I drove supplies to all their job sights, picked up stuff from wholesalers. I also plowed on my own for a couple of years. I got out of it all to focus on school. I miss it sometimes. But, I can only handle so much at once. I finally hit burnout stage and had to take a step back.

i seen the programme over here it looks great wouldnt mind givin it a go at all

Its not that easy and you have to the right truck for the job... and if you need to have some really good exp driving on the road before a company will even looking at your applacation...