After getting out of high school, I went out to Texas and started operating heavy equipment with my Dad. He has been running heavy equipment for close to 60 years! He has taught me all I know about heavy equipment and construction. I remembered that my Dad was always telling me that I should get my CDL, and that it would help me to get better jobs. I worked towards it...even going as far as to get my class B permit. Unfortunately, I could never locate a vehicle to take my road test with.
After I moved to Florida, I worked for a few construction companies. The pay was horrible, and I had absolutely no job security. Once the economy took a nosedive, it was even worse. I decided that it was time for a change. I went into the aviation industry, and started working for a major airline. It was a great job that taught me a lot. I had to quit when my wife and I moved to Las Vegas for her job. After moving back to Florida, I had a hard time getting a job that paid me enough to keep us afloat. I was an aircraft fueler for a couple of months, but I was getting paid coal for a job that should have paid gold.
When I was working as a fueler, I started talking to one of my coworkers who use to drive for Covenant. He was telling me about driving OTR, and how much he got paid for doing it. He told me that he used to love being in the farmlands of Indiana one day, and in Manhattan the next. He couldn't drive anymore due to a preventable accident that he got into. After mulling it over, I decided to take the plunge. The next big step was get the wife on board and to figure out how I was going to go about accomplishing it...
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