Truck Driving Jobs

choperbob · #1 08-17-2008, 07:43 PM

any info on who to contact regarding jobs in iray. have exp with van, flat bed, reefer. total 4 years safe driving can get hazmat

Bumper · #2 08-17-2008, 08:08 PM

How are you at cover and concealment and suppresing automatic weapons fire????

choperbob · #3 08-17-2008, 08:12 PM

vietnam vet. looking for real info, not just stupid question. please answer with real info

Bumper · #4 08-17-2008, 08:22 PM

Your not the only one, and I wasnt kidding.

If I can find the utoob of the guy whose truck dies and he is hiding in the sleeper and you can hear the rounds going through the cab and he has nothing to return fire with I will post it for you.

Orangetxguy · #5 08-17-2008, 08:23 PM

Can you stand long days away from home, blistering heat, sand filled air, chilling temperatures, all while receiving low wages???

http://www.kbr.com/careers/americas/index.aspx

They may not be hiring though...no driver jobs at the website.

Windwalker · #6 08-17-2008, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by choperbob

vietnam vet. looking for real info, not just stupid question. please answer with real info

http://www.jobmonkey.com/truckdrivin...iver-jobs.html

http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=48104

http://www.rightautos.com/Autos/Truc...-sb-1831170678

That help you? I know HALLIBURTON is invoved. They are supplying drivers, and I think the trucks as well. Expect to be driving a Mercedes.

Bumper · #7 08-17-2008, 08:29 PM

I was talking with an old Army buddy of mine and we were talking about Iraq.

He told me that he grew up in San Bernadino/Palm Springs and even that didnt give him a hint of what it was like to live in the heat of Iraq.

choperbob · #8 08-17-2008, 08:48 PM

lived in karachi pakistan 2 years, lived in tucson az 1 year. live in new mexico now. i understand heat

Walking Eagle · #9 08-17-2008, 09:14 PM

I have two close friends over there both driving for Halliburton. One loves it, on his second one year contract, and the other hates it but is waiting out his contract as that is where the $$$$s are. If you quit in the middle of the year contract you are basically driving for 52 cpm and you owe them back commisary and board plus you have to pay your own way out. If you compliet the contract all charges are forgiven and you get a "complietion bonus" that puts you up around $40 an hour.
Live in a closed camp, not allowed out unless on a run. $1000.00 fine if they find a weapon in the truck (friend one has paid two of them

) No beer or alcohol. No women. Not allowed into "town". Other than that friend one says he is gona sing up again after this years contract is done in November.

Windwalker · #10 08-17-2008, 10:45 PM

I've thought about it too. Up until now, it meant leaving my wife behind. After her latest thing, I guess I'm not concerned about that anymore. I thought about the heat too. Served in the Navy in North Africa and the day I left, it cooled down 30 degrees from what it was the day before. The day I left, it was 128degrees at Rabat Airport. There had been times when we'd twist a bicycle inner tube into a figure "8", put our arms through it and sleep in the pool with our legs up on the concrete. Rolling over was a rude awakening.

The transmitter site was about 7 tenths of a mile (1 click) from the barracks, and if you wore a shirt and no t-shirt, you'd get burned right through the shirt when walking between them.

I think about Yoopr having been a contractor in Iraq, and now living in the UP. And, I can picture him huddling next to a warm fire during the winters up there.