Dude I just went local from OTR. It’s a brutal job but it’s an excellent way to stack racks and then get the hell out. Glad I made it out before I became too fat or an alcoholic
I'm a truck driver and got into the master of accounting in Liberty University online. I'm trying for my CPA while trucking and making money. It's possible to do it on the road.
My wife hires truck drivers for a living. They can never get enough people. It’s hard for her to find anyone who will show up and isn’t addicted to meth
I left trucking just shy of a year into it because they withheld my hiring bonus, lied about my medical coverage, and the pay wasn’t what I was promised. If companies what truck drivers the NEED to boost the pay and cut the bs they put their drivers through.
The thing that motivates men is women yes money but money for the women their was this trucker and his wife they rented he saved up enough money to buy a house got the house wife divorced him he lost the house ex wife got remarried to another man and he was haveing health problems and he had to go back to trucking what I’m saying is if your gonna chase money chase it for your self and rent don’t get married
Out of town 1 a week? I’m out and away from home from 6 to 7 weeks at a time (company driver) banking cash to replace my car and buy better housing. Have him check out Marten they pay pretty decent for 6 months experience min )1400 a week guarantee and you can hit more than that if you worn hard
Mr. Cappy u want a red pill? No offence to the truck drivers. I got a couple of truck driver friends. N they all hate physical work. I wouldn’t recommend plumbing or anything physical for them. Again no offence just a red pill. N I work in stucco in phx by the way.
I can give advice. Been trucking 18 months in the mid Atlantic/south/midwest. You've gotta be taking home at least 800/week after deductions right? You chose a house with a comfortable mortgage which is smart, but you should have enough to make extra payments and end up spending less over the term. Anyway if Michigan is bad, i recommend relocating to somewhere in southern Ohio Indiana Illinois, or Kansas Missouri Arkansas, that's where the trucking jobs are imo. Chicago, The gulf and the northeast have terrible roads and truck stops. Also if you haven't TRIED applying anywhere because of your record, ignore that instinct and apply anyway, it can't hurt you. See what happens. The good local company jobs are food delivery. Or do Primes walk away lease and be a glorified company driver with owner op pay, 2300/week takehome. Don't worry about changing careers unless you ARE willing to wait 2-3 years to see the returns and hoping for more than 130.000/yr, because you can get that as a dry van food driver or a floater in Love's or Pilot's tanker fleet.
LA and SF (California) area police work start out at about 100,000 a year. Takes a while to fill out the online applications and get an offer. The departments pay you while you are going to the academy. Great benefits. Downside is the cost of housing.
I'd only suggest lineman IF you can get hired and you have a job lined up immediately after you graduate lineschool, otherwise don't effing do it. I did the lineman apprenticeship. I still CANNOT get hired in my area as a lineman apprentice or even a groundman (which is the pre-apprentice lineman apprentice). I still have school debt leftover from trade school. I'm a truck driver right now.
I think that becoming a lineman technically wouldn't be leaving the truck driving entirely since linemen travel alot in big trucks. It looks like being a lineman is less dangerous than being a truck driver though, speaking from experience as a truck driver that is true, it is very dangerous. But I think (I may be wrong) that since the economy sucks, the lineman trade has gotta be a pond all fished out by now especially since everybody I've talked to since 2016 seems to think it's the general consensus that "those lineman guys make $150k a year and work like 20 hrs a week" lol "all you have to do is go sign up at the lineman company hud-da-hudz-shucks gee there ya go" & this is just me but I would not want to go travel to the middle of nowhere hellhole ghost towns and have to work there for multiple weeks. stuck in a trashy hotel full of druggies and the worst people out there. Hotels have gotten so bad that there's a good chance that the people who clean hotel rooms might go into your room when you're not in there, go through your stuff and take whatever they want. Then there's the Possibly of having to double-up in a hotel room with your coworker. Noo way. I think, in a lot of ways it would be equally as bad as truck driving, don't get to take as much stuff with you when you do travel which means less ability to cook healthier meals for yourself while traveling.
My first job after becoming a lineman apprentice was hauling 25-50k lb steel pole pieces off road on a transmission project. Trucking is a huge part of linework.
I've met a lot of people who are lineman. ANd they all behave the EXACT same way. Just dumb rednecks with horrible health and habits and grumpy attitudes. (I also have my cdl, so i'm not shitting on blue collared).
@@connorkubilus8044 wow, that's a tough job. Did you drive a military deuce & a half? Those are a ton of fun to drive in the mud I used to drive one at a trailer repair shop, I found it near impossible to get stuck in mud driving one of those, and the tires will climb over top of things like it's nothing lol like a monster truck driving over cars
@@connorkubilus8044 and what happens to those giant wooden platforms they put down all around the power poles once they're done with em? like that project in Wisconsin/Minnesota along I-94 (if I remember correctly) where they installed all aluminum giant power poles? I think they'd make a good material for a boat dock, I could swear I saw some of them were made from cedar(?) in GA
Still a driving job, but delivering ice pays well. Lower end seems to be about 25 an hr, higher end is closer to 30. Lots of OT available in summer season.
It has never been safe nor will it be. The universe is hostile. Think of all the people before you whom survived plagues, wild animals, wars, slavery, and God knows what else only for it to end because a broad isn’t happy or you like videogames too much. My grandfather survived getting ran over by a tank in Korea. I’d be disrespecting him by giving up my lineage. The very definition of failure in a species is failing to reproduce. The world needs more strong and rational men having babies, not less.
The war on Linemen Colleges/schools are unwarranted. It’s become increasingly rare for someone to get something like a ground man position with just a CDL. Everyone and their mother wants to be a lineman now a days. Young men have to set themselves a part from the others, and if Lineman school is your way in then that’s how it is. Most Utilities want to see someone go through these schools not just for the education, but to find out if they have the dedication and understanding to the nature of this work.
@@connorkubilus8044 Not yet, but I go this August. I already have two jobs lined up when I get out, both very well into the six figure range when I get out. Thing is, if you go to Line school first, they will increase your pay by a larger margin then if you did not and you will have a much higher chance becoming employed with added benefits. More then likely, they may not have even listened to me at all if I had not stated my intent to enter a lineman school. I'm not saying you need to do it this way, but it is most certainly a way for people to get a foot through the door.
Honestly his best bet to make more money with less time involved is to get his own truck and go owner op. Once he has a truck paid off and has a properly maintain he can have someone else drive the truck for him while he wants to stay at home or look into a new career. That's how I did it.
Might as well go for heavy mechanic then. When you buy a truck, all your extra time will be maintenance and repairs or spend your extra money to pay someone else to do it.
@@Brandon-ps7nq yeah that's what I had to do build my own pit and shop. Because apparently nobody could build a brand new truck without any issues from the factory.
One really good resource if you want to do a lot of research to find good truck driving job is a youtube channel called "lockout man podcast", the guy asks all the right questions to these trucking companies that're hiring. Hundreds of companies that are lesser known.
Buying a house is easy,paying for it and maintaining the property is the hard part,especially if you run into health issues and your earnings drop
Exactly, a house is just another thing that ends up owning you.
Just quit my driving job to manage my paid for house. Building a bathroom and kitchen myself.
Dude I just went local from OTR. It’s a brutal job but it’s an excellent way to stack racks and then get the hell out. Glad I made it out before I became too fat or an alcoholic
I'm a truck driver and got into the master of accounting in Liberty University online. I'm trying for my CPA while trucking and making money. It's possible to do it on the road.
Sounds golden sir, cheers!
My wife hires truck drivers for a living. They can never get enough people. It’s hard for her to find anyone who will show up and isn’t addicted to meth
What’s the average pay ?
@@ronaldsuarez6389I'd say 1,250 a week is the average. I saw a lot of $1,500-$1,700 weeks but more hometime cuts that down to more like $900/wk
The Trade Talks podcast seems to have the scoop on the latest blue collar careers.
And it doesn't paywall
I left trucking just shy of a year into it because they withheld my hiring bonus, lied about my medical coverage, and the pay wasn’t what I was promised.
If companies what truck drivers the NEED to boost the pay and cut the bs they put their drivers through.
The thing that motivates men is women yes money but money for the women their was this trucker and his wife they rented he saved up enough money to buy a house got the house wife divorced him he lost the house ex wife got remarried to another man and he was haveing health problems and he had to go back to trucking what I’m saying is if your gonna chase money chase it for your self and rent don’t get married
Renting is stupid. Ownership is power
30:05 my neighbor drives for fed ex and does real well. Works overnights, but damn does he do well
Out of town 1 a week? I’m out and away from home from 6 to 7 weeks at a time (company driver) banking cash to replace my car and buy better housing. Have him check out Marten they pay pretty decent for 6 months experience min )1400 a week guarantee and you can hit more than that if you worn hard
Mr. Cappy u want a red pill? No offence to the truck drivers. I got a couple of truck driver friends. N they all hate physical work. I wouldn’t recommend plumbing or anything physical for them. Again no offence just a red pill. N I work in stucco in phx by the way.
It's 111 out for us today! Jeez man. Stucco? I'm sunburnt from my three hours walking(sun city west.)
😂😂😂
CDL = Can't Do Labor
Industrial skilled trades are in high demand right now and you can make 100k with some overtime.
I can give advice. Been trucking 18 months in the mid Atlantic/south/midwest. You've gotta be taking home at least 800/week after deductions right? You chose a house with a comfortable mortgage which is smart, but you should have enough to make extra payments and end up spending less over the term. Anyway if Michigan is bad, i recommend relocating to somewhere in southern Ohio Indiana Illinois, or Kansas Missouri Arkansas, that's where the trucking jobs are imo. Chicago, The gulf and the northeast have terrible roads and truck stops. Also if you haven't TRIED applying anywhere because of your record, ignore that instinct and apply anyway, it can't hurt you. See what happens. The good local company jobs are food delivery. Or do Primes walk away lease and be a glorified company driver with owner op pay, 2300/week takehome. Don't worry about changing careers unless you ARE willing to wait 2-3 years to see the returns and hoping for more than 130.000/yr, because you can get that as a dry van food driver or a floater in Love's or Pilot's tanker fleet.
No, you can float all your gears
LA and SF (California) area police work start out at about 100,000 a year. Takes a while to fill out the online applications and get an offer. The departments pay you while you are going to the academy. Great benefits. Downside is the cost of housing.
Plus totally free healthcare! I've met people who became a cop just for the free healthcare lol
Being a police in LA and SF? Oooff, good luck with that
@@andreasasatya9188 lol yea, I'd just hang out in the shade and not take any calls til ai get fired lol
There aren't enough jobs like that or cheap houses available for everyone to do this. Selection bias is a very big factor here.
I still want to know how truck drivers select isekai protagonists. Is it something the driver determines or are they assigned by the boss?
I'd only suggest lineman IF you can get hired and you have a job lined up immediately after you graduate lineschool, otherwise don't effing do it. I did the lineman apprenticeship. I still CANNOT get hired in my area as a lineman apprentice or even a groundman (which is the pre-apprentice lineman apprentice). I still have school debt leftover from trade school. I'm a truck driver right now.
Move where the money is.
I think that becoming a lineman technically wouldn't be leaving the truck driving entirely since linemen travel alot in big trucks.
It looks like being a lineman is less dangerous than being a truck driver though, speaking from experience as a truck driver that is true, it is very dangerous.
But I think (I may be wrong) that since the economy sucks, the lineman trade has gotta be a pond all fished out by now especially since everybody I've talked to since 2016 seems to think it's the general consensus that "those lineman guys make $150k a year and work like 20 hrs a week" lol "all you have to do is go sign up at the lineman company hud-da-hudz-shucks gee there ya go"
& this is just me but I would not want to go travel to the middle of nowhere hellhole ghost towns and have to work there for multiple weeks. stuck in a trashy hotel full of druggies and the worst people out there. Hotels have gotten so bad that there's a good chance that the people who clean hotel rooms might go into your room when you're not in there, go through your stuff and take whatever they want. Then there's the Possibly of having to double-up in a hotel room with your coworker. Noo way.
I think, in a lot of ways it would be equally as bad as truck driving, don't get to take as much stuff with you when you do travel which means less ability to cook healthier meals for yourself while traveling.
My first job after becoming a lineman apprentice was hauling 25-50k lb steel pole pieces off road on a transmission project. Trucking is a huge part of linework.
I've met a lot of people who are lineman. ANd they all behave the EXACT same way. Just dumb rednecks with horrible health and habits and grumpy attitudes. (I also have my cdl, so i'm not shitting on blue collared).
@@connorkubilus8044 wow, that's a tough job. Did you drive a military deuce & a half? Those are a ton of fun to drive in the mud I used to drive one at a trailer repair shop, I found it near impossible to get stuck in mud driving one of those, and the tires will climb over top of things like it's nothing lol like a monster truck driving over cars
@@connorkubilus8044 and what happens to those giant wooden platforms they put down all around the power poles once they're done with em? like that project in Wisconsin/Minnesota along I-94 (if I remember correctly) where they installed all aluminum giant power poles? I think they'd make a good material for a boat dock, I could swear I saw some of them were made from cedar(?) in GA
If he wants to get into concrete let me know I got a contact in Michigan
If he wants to become a lineman, he should join the union and become an apprentice/groundsman. Get paid while learning.
OIL FIELD. That's where the money is..
Don’t have to worry about retirement either you won’t live that long. If you do you will regret it.
Still a driving job, but delivering ice pays well. Lower end seems to be about 25 an hr, higher end is closer to 30. Lots of OT available in summer season.
I really don't get with the minefield, how guys still think they can safely have kids in today's world.
Its not safe, but thats not going to stop me. It did stop anyone before 1900, get a grip
@@The_Natalist before 1900 children weren't even treated as people hardly bruh, twas a whole other world
It has never been safe nor will it be. The universe is hostile.
Think of all the people before you whom survived plagues, wild animals, wars, slavery, and God knows what else only for it to end because a broad isn’t happy or you like videogames too much.
My grandfather survived getting ran over by a tank in Korea. I’d be disrespecting him by giving up my lineage.
The very definition of failure in a species is failing to reproduce. The world needs more strong and rational men having babies, not less.
@@grantwithers People had less _privileges_ period. And yes, privileges, not rights
Don’t do the lineman college.
Get your class A cdl. Go to your local hall and sign the groundman books. With overtime they can make 100k a year
The war on Linemen Colleges/schools are unwarranted.
It’s become increasingly rare for someone to get something like a ground man position with just a CDL. Everyone and their mother wants to be a lineman now a days.
Young men have to set themselves a part from the others, and if Lineman school is your way in then that’s how it is.
Most Utilities want to see someone go through these schools not just for the education, but to find out if they have the dedication and understanding to the nature of this work.
@@alexfortano153 have you been to a line college?
@@connorkubilus8044 Not yet, but I go this August. I already have two jobs lined up when I get out, both very well into the six figure range when I get out.
Thing is, if you go to Line school first, they will increase your pay by a larger margin then if you did not and you will have a much higher chance becoming employed with added benefits. More then likely, they may not have even listened to me at all if I had not stated my intent to enter a lineman school.
I'm not saying you need to do it this way, but it is most certainly a way for people to get a foot through the door.
Honestly his best bet to make more money with less time involved is to get his own truck and go owner op. Once he has a truck paid off and has a properly maintain he can have someone else drive the truck for him while he wants to stay at home or look into a new career. That's how I did it.
Might as well go for heavy mechanic then. When you buy a truck, all your extra time will be maintenance and repairs or spend your extra money to pay someone else to do it.
That’s a good idea
@@Brandon-ps7nq yeah that's what I had to do build my own pit and shop. Because apparently nobody could build a brand new truck without any issues from the factory.
One really good resource if you want to do a lot of research to find good truck driving job is a youtube channel called "lockout man podcast", the guy asks all the right questions to these trucking companies that're hiring. Hundreds of companies that are lesser known.