For some reason, I think this would be a pretty cool career at times as I love driving and seeing the country
For some reason, I think this would be a pretty cool career at times as I love driving and seeing the country
For some reason, I think this would be a pretty cool career at times as I love driving and seeing the country
Still not feelin' the whole engineer thing, huh?
For some reason, I think this would be a pretty cool career at times as I love driving and seeing the country
What you want to get is in the entertainment trucking business. Get on a good theater tour and you might spend a week in a city. Our truck drivers were always hanging with us and would go on day trips with people sometimes as we traveled the country. No idea how much that kind of schedule pays though...some of them probably did other jobs during the week.
I would think being a "real" truck driver would get old quite quickly. But that's just me.
...or you get directions into Chicago from someone who doesn't grasp that a semi can't get under a 10' bridge, or you run into the cops in Chicago who won't believe some A**hole directed you to go that way, ....
You probably don't make a lot of money if there are incidental charges of any sort, as it will eat away at the profit. Also, you're away from home often, sleep in trucks, and are on a very strict schedule, so a lot of the success depends on how quickly you can kill hookers and dump the body.
I love what I do and couldn't imagine doing anything else. Nobody cares what I do as long as I'm safe legal and on-time. I rarely know what I'm doing a day or two in the future. In a couple years I'll own my truck and have even more freedom while making more money. I wouldn't last 3 months if I had to go back to a 9-5 type gig.
Still not feelin' the whole engineer thing, huh?
I'm curious though. What kind of setup do you have for internet access on your rig? Simple 3G or something crazy like an RBGAN?
What you want to get is in the entertainment trucking business. Get on a good theater tour and you might spend a week in a city. Our truck drivers were always hanging with us and would go on day trips with people sometimes as we traveled the country. No idea how much that kind of schedule pays though...some of them probably did other jobs during the week.
I would think being a "real" truck driver would get old quite quickly. But that's just me.
I've looked into driving for the entertainment industry. Most companies will require you to have your own truck, of the two that don't, you need 3 years of OTR(over the road/longhaul) experience before you can apply. Once you are on tour you stay with that tour until it is over, you might not be home for months. I talked to one driver for Upstaging and he had given up on going home and sold his house. At that point he had been on the road for over 3 years straight.
I love what I do and couldn't imagine doing anything else. Nobody cares what I do as long as I'm safe legal and on-time. I rarely know what I'm doing a day or two in the future. In a couple years I'll own my truck and have even more freedom while making more money. I wouldn't last 3 months if I had to go back to a 9-5 type gig.
With our company you are on the road for most of the summer (maybe a week off here and there) but then you get most of the winter off since there are hardly any tours during the winter (aside from TSO and maybe some one-offs)
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Huh, I spent a few years doing stage hand work in the Seattle(Event Resourse management) area and never heard of you guys.
Do you guys lease on trucks or just have company drivers?
We just have company drivers