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Originally Posted by razingkane
I took a job working for a concrete company driving a mixer truck. I been with them for 2 years. Good pay and I'm home every night.
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A concrete company might actually be more likely to hire someone with little to no experience than some other driving opportunities, now that you mention it. The place I worked didn't road test me, didn't care about anything driving-related up front, and mostly seemed concerned with my creative answers to deep philosophical questions. It was a weirdly thorough interview that kept me off balance, and then I had to take some kind of IQ test. (Where I got a higher score than the HR lady administering the test.)
The money was decent, the benefits were good, they had a good guaranteed minimum hours policy for the slow winter months where they'd pay you 40 hours a week to do scut busy work around the shop just to have something to do. Good camaraderie, and a real sense of brotherhood.
It just wasn't for me though. Wow. I guess if anything, it really made me appreciate how much I really don't mind the DOT, the HOS rules, the traffic, the fourwheelers, and all the other BS. It could be a lot worse. I could be back in that mixer.
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I'm glad it's working out for you though. Concrete seems to be an all or nothing kind of deal, and if you've lasted two years, I expect you'll probably have a long and fruitful career. A lot of the guys where I worked had been there for more than 20 years.