Great News (got a new job)
#81
05-19-2010, 06:19 PM
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 1,658
I had to go to 12th and Norris street today to pick a lift up. It was the most f-ed up day i had yet. I couldn't even get the truck down the street. I had to walk 6blocks down and bring the lift out to broad street. To load it. This job is making me crazy. REAL CRAZY :eek2:
On another note i had an interview at SJ Transportation today. They haul alot of hazmat tank stuff. .42/mile and all loading and un-loading is paid by the hour. Can be out up to 3 nights a week. I told the guy i would get back to him in 2 days to let him know. I got the job if i want it. I just HATE job hoping. But this job i have now is driving me big time nuts. Now i see why it paid so damn good. 
#82
05-19-2010, 07:59 PM
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: the Buckeye
Posts: 1,732
If you can wiggle your way out from under a passed out N. Michigan female Sasquatch in the morning, and escape and evade with all your limbs, you can do anything. You will live with the horror and trauma forever, and it will make you bipolar, but it's amazing what you can learn to get use to. 
#84
05-19-2010, 11:24 PM
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Concordville PA
Posts: 3,841
Just chill out bro. It'll be alright. You're new, they know you're new, they know its gonna take you some time, you're on the clock for all the work you do so don't worry about it. It takes however long it takes to get it done correctly and safely. Personally I think the job sounds pretty cool. I think I would enjoy it. I don't let the city traffic bother me. I got a job to do and if the motorists don't like it then fuc~ em. Thats their problem. Listen to Kranky. 6 months from now it'll all seem kinda routine and no big deal. If your dispatchers get on you about time thats their job, safety is your job. If they say its taking too long I tell them were driving semis out here not flying helicopters. It takes however long it takes, don't rush for anybody cause its your ass if something goes wrong.
Very well said, Snowman! :thumbsup:
Mackman, it sounds like you have a good job. Sounds quite simple, too. Seems like it would be something that I wouldn't mind doing. Going to pick up/drop off equipment. Sounds like a walk in the park to me. What do ya not like? Is it the job itself? Loading/unloading equipment, or is it the traffic? If the traffic bothers ya, just do your best, and watch your surroundings. Just make sure you take your time, and be safe. I'm going to be calling SJ back 2morrow to tell them no thanks on the job offer. I'm going to do my best to stick it out. After I'm reading what i posted I'm starting to sound like a little cry baby bi-tch. LOL .The way i look at it is - There are guys that have the same type set-up as jorlee and they are getting around so why cant i?? I saw a tri-axle tractor and 4 axle trailer today. So if he can get around i should be able to get around. Plus if i stay there long enough if a straight truck job opens I'm going to get it. They get 21.04/hr to drive a tandem axle rollback. Now thats a cake walk. Plus im getting more and more use to the trailer and what i can do with it.:thumbsup:
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#85
05-20-2010, 01:13 PM
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: the Buckeye
Posts: 1,732
You will in time. Just watch what the other guys are doing and you'll pick it up. When we slowed down last year I had to come off my road run and work the city. It was that or get laid off. In the beginning it was the hardest thing I'd ever done in a big truck. I had to do things that I would have said are not possible but everyone else was doing it and had been for years. So it was possible, I just didnt know how yet. It'll take a few months but you will get used to it. In the movie THE EDGE Anthony Hopkins says "what one man can do so can another". Then he kills a bear with a tree limb sharpened like a spear. Something he had read in a book.
So go kill a bear driver! :lol:
#86
05-20-2010, 05:08 PM
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#87
05-20-2010, 05:49 PM
Mackman,
Seeing that you're just mere miles from the biggest chick buffet in the world, while your driving along, if you see some chick that looks like this...  Would you please FedEx her to me? Of course any hott horn-dog Philly superbabe will be nice, long as she has straight teeth, and her smile is pretty. I don't like the lower teeth to show with the smile, and her lips have to be symmetrical. Not too much gum showing either, because then they look horse faced. :thumbsup:
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#88
05-20-2010, 06:41 PM
Just stick with it. If the truck/trailer is getting easier to drive, that means the job is getting better.
I would stay with it for atleast 6 months, and see how it is after that. 
#89
05-20-2010, 07:19 PM
I'd like to formally apologize to Mackman for my comments I made on his Facebook.
You, sir, may now pee standing up! lol Just like the saying goes, "if it was easy, everybody would be doing it". Take the difference between an avg paycheck at the old job and one from the new job and think of the xtra money you've making.That's what keeps me from driving a 1/4 cab 
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#90
05-22-2010, 12:18 AM
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: the Buckeye
Posts: 1,732
Yeah I never thought of that! No word for two days, I hope he's OK! LOL!
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