The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[number two]

Good one Jon!
Got my chauffeurs license at 19 in 1973.
Operators license was 6 bucks and 10 questions.
Chauffeurs license was 12 bucks and 55 questions.
Good to to drive anything.
Now,what the hell was wrong with that system?

 

[LHF2019]

I didn't find it in the least bit difficult. Of course I was backing up front steer farm wagons and trailers before I was 9, now at 74 I can still back up quite well.

I jockey trailers at UPS. Did the training last year. First time ever moving trailers. Training is 3 days about 12 hours. Wife told me to be good and not train the trainer knowing how I am. After riding and listening to him explain how to back in to a dock and him getting to know me and what I do he tells me that doing a straight back would be a waste of time. What do you want to do? Told him I'll put it on that door there. After I'm done he tells me that is the first time I had somebody do a double blind back on their first day and of course had no idea what he meant. Training lasted less than an hour signed off that day. Still waiting to maneuver full size trailers and They won't let me double up the trailers and mess around with them. Have a cover driver that will back doubles on to the door to unhook the last trailer. That's what I want to try.

Wife for years been telling me to get my CDL. I keep thinking about it. $$$$$

 

[Hay Dude]

I jockey trailers at UPS. Did the training last year. First time ever moving trailers. Training is 3 days about 12 hours. Wife told me to be good and not train the trainer knowing how I am. After riding and listening to him explain how to back in to a dock and him getting to know me and what I do he tells me that doing a straight back would be a waste of time. What do you want to do? Told him I'll put it on that door there. After I'm done he tells me that is the first time I had somebody do a double blind back on their first day and of course had no idea what he meant. Training lasted less than an hour signed off that day. Still waiting to maneuver full size trailers and They won't let me double up the trailers and mess around with them. Have a cover driver that will back doubles on to the door to unhook the last trailer. That's what I want to try.

Wife for years been telling me to get my CDL. I keep thinking about it. $$$$$

Maybe theres a local employer out there who will send you to the training at no cost to you if you work for them a while, then quit.

 

[Lastkidpicked]

Maybe theres a local employer out there who will send you to the training at no cost to you if you work for them a while, then quit.

This is exactly the way many get into trucking. Last time the kids looked into it, the cost was $8000 and if you stayed for a year then you didn't owe anything.