Today I decided to go with a new direction in my job search. Well it could actually be looked at as an old direction since I have done it before, but it is time to go back.
In August of 2000 I went to the Roadmaster Driving School in Columbus, Ohio. I had decided to that it was time for me to try truck driving, and learned how at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. After graduating in September of that year I went off to drive with Werner Enterprises, went through their training program and proceeded to drive over 100,000 miles for them before deciding I wanted to be around people more. I would drive using my Commercial Drivers License (CDL) one more time between then and now at a materials company near Toledo. There I drove gravel train in Michigan and Ohio until I got tired of chipping frozen clay out of dump boxes in the freezing weather of February 2003.
Both of these jobs earned me a lot of money, and yet neither was quite what I was looking for, thing was, I wanted a life as well. It is very difficult to meet someone when you are never around and are always working. Which brings us to the present after detouring through getting my two year degree from Owens Community College, attending Bowling Green University, and working several different jobs along the way. Since January I have been looking for another job that would hopefully turn into a career, and fell woefully short of that ideal.
Since today I now have a wonderful girlfriend, I no longer have to worry about getting a life, now I need that income. So now is the time to take another look at truck driving. I kept my CDL all this time, and have stayed fairly current on the changes in the law and equipment. So hopefully after a refresher course I will be back riding the roads in no time.
As a side note, I decided that I would start a blog about driving since so many times when I was originally out over the road, I would bring home stories about what I had seen, and so many times people said, "you should write that down," and this time I plan to.
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The last time I drove a semi-truck, people kept telling me that I should write my tales from the road down. This time I am going to share them as they happen. Eventually I plan to add both pictures and video clips so that you to can see what being a truck driver is like.
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