question and rant(sorry for the rant part)
 

Just wondering, can I be 20 and still get CDL training? Im a month from turning 21, but I cant really wait anymore. I dont have a job, all I do is sit around all day incredibly bored! I want to be out of my parents' house asap, I get stand this shit any longer. Will truck company that hire 21 olds take me company training now and since its real soon I turn 21 Im sure the training could be done then, so I can drive. I really want to cut all damn ties, my family is horrible in my opinion and I hate the life I've had so far. I have not worked for past years, went to community college and then dropped out. Im ready for some "crash and burn", my life is shit it can only get better right? Im so f***in mad! Btw im an asian immigrant, its there some kind of racism against immgirant in this industry? Wouldn't surprise me, I'm used to hate/hate back shit kind thing on this planet. Life sucks and I **** hate it! Sorry for language, need to get it off my chest.

you can always get your licence before your 21, i think the law in most states is age 18, and the only reason the 21 rule exists is because of insurance. is thier racism in the trucking industry, yes but varries by locations, Also im not gonna complain about your language, but 1 thing you have to learn is about respect.. as u ranted about your parents hell ya you have every reason to hate them, your unemployed still living at home where the bills are paid for ya, the food is in the fridge, and you really have to complain that they havent kicked you out on your ass for no good reason, the biggest thing you have a right to bitch about is the fact that they brought you to a country where you can have some of the best education, and can have a dream and try to live it.

And Son, congrads on ging to a Community college for 3 yrs, shows ya have some character and potential, but thiers no reason to hate life, you just have to learn how to live it.

One of the reason I want to get out is I dont want to feel like I owe them. You understand once you hate someone last thing you want to feel is like to owe them. Im sorry for sitting around my ass like a dumbass for 3 years, yup I was depressed and hating in general, but you dont know the life I've been through, and maybe you will understand my attitude if you know it. Talking about respect, once you get a taste of hate/negliance you know the respect thing is fake. Sure there are genuine people who out there I may actually respect someday, but right now I can't take chances, Im sick of being laughed at, sick of just being different and sick of being a dumbass. Sure my parents didnt kick me out, maybe because they felt sorry for me, their son which they feel is less than others. You get the drift? In short, im SORRY for born to have morons for parents, and I get urge to make up for my past mistakes too, which I doubt will ever be redeem enough. So maybe that's why I want to choose this profession. To get away from others as much as possible. Im a guy whos single and never kissed/dated a female, and Im DEAD inside. All the love and adoration for things of this world has been dumbed down by this wretched life, do you even know what it feels like to feel so damn jaded? And I never drink/or smoke, I've dealed this life without aid of chemicals, which is more than some people could bear. So save your preach ass crap. Im the person who actually accepts living through life by himself. My heart was broken and I've tired of pretend something Im not. Think of the people you love now and do something like this, subtract them from your life and then measure the time you can bear to live life without them and without getting know other people who you will love, so now in this world is just you, what will you think? Will you accept it then as it is and live on? You dont even have an idea/clue. Talk about dream, what is a dream worth if I can never achieve it, the society will work you till you die and plenty of people will tread you like they are best thing ever happened. And yeah US has some best education, man its the medicore at best If you actually lived somewhere else you would know. Just be happy you didnt get the deal I've.

Im a regular white guy. But, in my opinion...life is hard for people in your age group. I know life was hard for me from 19-25 or so. Lots of adjustments to make and people are jockying around trying to find their path in life at that age.

Damn, sorry for the self pitying. just I've been so mad for being a loser. I can't stand of being a loser, im a do or die person, and it's supposed to be die for me since I've lost respect for myself and for other people now. I've considered suicide but I find it as a rather pathetic option. Just can't believe 5000 years of human history yet the world is so damn fake and ingenuine in everything it believed in. In a way I felt I've gone steps backwards the last few years, or maybe I didnt get it right in the begining. Or maybe Im just a more retarded or unlucky person? I've always wanted to believe in that, better it's me wrong than it's that everything just plain sucks. Wish I could be cool and not end up being where I'm now.

ok i get it you have had a hard life.... actually 1 outtta every4 people who drive truck has had a hard life before they got on the road...

the thing that you must understnad thou is respect has to be given to people weather or not they deserve it, expecially in this industry.

the enducation system is pretty damn good in the USA, the education you can learn based on your own experiences that u learn the hard way is the best.

hate to tell ya the truth about 1 fact of driving truck, other drivers wont tollerate, cry stories they have heard them all at 1 point in thier life. oh my sob story, i use to buy 50 lb bages of rice and eat that month in and month out, use to cook it in the 1 pot that i owned and on a bbq, since i had no electricity.... i did have a roof over my head and thank the welfare system for that.... i started out in a diffrent career field that any smart man right now is getting out of before the boat totally sinks... and ended up here driving truck, to pay for my licence i had no optioins like going to swift or anything, tha tu have to sign a contract to agree to work.

i used my old beat up pick up and drove around at night picking up scrap metal and bringing it home with me. at 3 cents a lb, some days i lost money just for driving around. (freaking gas prices).... and it took forever to save up the 7000 dollars to pay for my licence, actually thinking about it now, it might of been quicker begging on a street for pennies then how i was doing it, but i was a man and sucked up all the bullshit that life could throw at me, and went out busted my ass more then once, why simple reason, i never thought i was bad off, just had some obsticles to over come....

WOW!!!!!!You're going a little off topic now with all this talk of suicide, and lack of self respect, lets revert this topic to the fact of you becoming a driver at 20. It can be done, i got licensed at 19 but had one hell of time finding a job, and no offense, but your attitude has got to change drastically if you plan on making it in this industry, too much time by yourself in a truck to do the "i hate myself" BS, good luck with whatever your decission is.

The 1st thing is to get rid of the self pitty sh$t, you will keep yourself down with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

Don't worry, I've been around. Im sure things will only go up for me now. Can't say I like people, but maybe a change is good. Just so long being stuck it gets on your nerves, like this will never end. Again I need to get out the HELL out of this ASAP.

shell ..

gosh my question for you is .... why do you think trucking is the answer for you? ....

In this job you will deal with people daily that want to tell you what to do, when to do it , and how it's done. If you can't get alone with people now - - - or - - - family members who love you - - - then your world is about to be turned upside down .... between the 4wheelers trying to run a big truck off the road, or dock employees getting smart with you when you arrive to deliver their merchandise ... or other drivers telling you 'where to go ... This isn't where you need to be ..... find a good community college and go there ... find a profession that is a lot LESS stressful than trucking ... each day is a new situation to work through or a new problem to solve ... it's not for the 'self pity' kind of person .... You'll not only get yourself killed but some Innocent person who has a family they enjoy at home .. ...

Life is what YOU make it ....

I would be glad to know of any LESS stressful job right NOW. Time is running out and I aint waiting another day for better sunshine.
I have zero cents so community college watever is out of question and shit they teach won't land you a decent job anyway.
Yeaah, this world is full of you people thinking everybody else is just another dumbass, than could even be able to do what you do. You are so AWESOME...
"Life is what YOU make it", you know what I've try to feel good about dip-shits, but maybe I've been put up too much shit, I really need to take a good look in the mirror and reconsider my core valueS. Again GENIUS!
You think I dont want to make good of life, of the shit I've been through, you think I didnt justify it in the name of maybe Im just too stupid, that maybe I didnt get shafted. I dont self pity and to give you a picture, you who didnt have to shit through this life be grateful cuz some day it maybe your turn when you're all alone. Than the rest the world start point fingers at you telling you're wrong, MAYBE than you will have an idea of what is like. Until then do not give the crap of things "Life is what YOU make it". Cause I've been trying to tell myself I'm a dumbass who deserved the suffering I got, so as to control the anger of being dealed wrong hand in life. I did for the good of others. So you ignorance actually have a clue of what fucking anger is. You dont even have a clue, until then you need shut the heck up and put your mouth where you know what the fuck you talking about.
"You'll not only get yourself killed but some Innocent person who has a family they enjoy at home .. ... "
Who do you take yourself as, Nostradmus?
Don't pass judgement on me, it's the last thing you will ever want do.
I've had it enough, if more are so damn stuck-up like you. I will fucking make it pay day...
Unlike you, I actually tried to see the good in evey person, but it is people like you whose damned antics makes me mad.

My Turn....
Not trying to be mean...
You do NOT belong behind the wheel of a truck in your state of mind.
What you do need is mental health services.

Why is that? People think differently tends to be mentally ill...
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Maybe I am wrong...but, it seems to me that you are going through what a lot of us call "growing pains". Culture shock maybe another term that applies.

I had a somewhat sheltered life growing up. When I was 19, I got out in the world and found that things werent as I thought they were. My perceptions of people and the world in general all of a sudden got turned upside down. It took time to realize and accept how things are in the real world. But, time does work out a lot of issues. You learn to make the most of your situation. You learn how to navigate yourself through life and become successful and hopefully happy. You learn that people dont always see you as you think they do. We are our own worst critic. People usually think more of you than you think they do. You will also learn how to read people and know who to hang around and who to avoid.

No.... reread everything you typed, read answers you got , read your replies. Then think about it....

I told you I wasn't trying to be mean, and I wasn't. I was being truthful.

Shell -- take a deep breath, and step away from the keyboard :!:

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Are you for real?? 20 and living at your Mom and Dad's home???

Shell get a life you have as much a chance of making it as does the white kid down the street does some people might be against you but most aren't but you will never get anywhere unless you give up the sob story.

What in the hell are you talkin about ???? you sound like a troubled teen thats mad because you can't do what you want, grow up kid...

I'm glad you guys spoke up on this thread .... if I didn't know better ... I'd think this kid - - -- just threaten Me ! ... with his statment hummmmm ..... maybe I better make sure my doors stay locked and my 357 sleeps with me ... :shock:

about shell
 

hes just a fustrated kid tht thinks, living in a shoe box ( with some strange trainer guy at first),, telling off every tom dick and harry he meets that might solve his problems....

give him a few weeks on the road, and he would quit, i think the post partum depression would kick in that" as a truck driver your 2nd class citizen , every1 swears at ya faster and more often then you could ever see possable"and the fact that no matter what you do your always wrong...

givin the chance this kid, will actually know what the feelin of the world is outta get me means... oh ya and he will have 70 hrs a week he gets paid to think about it... and another 100 hours of sleeping and eating time to think the world is outta get him...

DAMN , no matter what if any1 sees him searching for companies call the companies and recommend they dont hire him, he will most defintaly kill some1, who is happy with thier life, and has stuff like family they care about.

P.S. he dont need a hospital, maybe some anti depressants, a dream or goal in life and a chance to speak to a pychocologist for a few hours.

You came here asking advice and got it..... relax a freakin second and turn down the language.

You do NOT belong behind the wheel of an 80,000 pound vehicle, seems to me you are a time bomb waiting to go off. My guess is with that attitude you wouldn't last through the authority during training anyway.

An awful lot of people here had a crap life and grew up to be resonsible adults, so theres hope for you. I'd suggest councelling.

4roses gave you a caring, almost motherly answer and she always has people best interests at heart.

I may have had a more gentle answer for you but at this point you really don't deserve it.

Ok, I told myself, dont reply to this thread.....but hell I never listen to myself anyway.

Here's what I'm reading. This guy is 21 and has had everything handed to him by his parents. Now his parents want him to get his ass out of the house (Oh BTW, you do owe them and you owe them alot) but he has never had a job and he cant afford community college which is a royal steaming crock of manure. You go to your local community college and you seek financial aid. At the same time you meet with a counselor to decided the best course for education and a career.

I"m just wondering what this guy is going to do if or when he has to be stuck in a truck with a insane trainer for two weeks? What is he going to do if/when he is out there solo and he has to sit at a loading dock for 8 hours waiting to be loaded despite he was on time for an appt time.

Whats he going to if he has no load to pu/deliver? And he has sit awhile at some lousy truck stop all day, or has run out of hours and has to do a reset in some lousy town in below freezing temps.

And what is he going to do, based on the small insight into his mental stability, if some car cuts him off in traffic?

Go to college , kid.

The first thing you need to do is relax my friend. You need self control. You come on here asking for advice, and all of your posts have been nothing but temper tantrums. You need to show respect in order to get respect. Chill out first, and we will be glad to help you.

Wow! Just, wow! This little punk wouldn't make it five minutes at Taco Bell. How's he going to make it six weeks with a trainer? Just another spoiled brat who wants everything without working for it.

"I want it all and I want it now!!!"

Dude, you need to do a whole lot of growing up. You owe your parents everything, like it or not. The world doesn't owe you anything, like it or not.

Stay out of the trucking business until you get a bit of maturity in your system.

As a parent of three adults, I would give you this advise. Since you are in a hurry to get out of the house, you clearly need some moral boosting and self image enhancement, I suggest the U.S. Job Corps. There is one near enough to you and you can go to their website for info. You can train to be a Truck Driver, you will get housing, food, training, license and experience. When you leave you will be older, well trained, should be confident and desirable to employers if you have done a good job, had a good attitude, etc. It is probably one of the best options for one in your situation going barring the military.

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Actually, there's nothing wrong with staying with your parents at this age. I'm 19 and stay with my parents. If I can drive OTR, my only bills will be my food or internet bill (if I have one). With no house bill or anything like that, all that money will go straight to the bank. 8)

(There's a guy in our truckdriving class who is 24; also out of the Marines, and he still lives at home, and he's not ashamed of it one bit. And he's doing real good for himself too, so living with your parents is not neccesarily a bad thing.) :)

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(so living with your parents is not neccesarily a bad thing.) :)[/quote]

Not at all. I lived with my folks until I was 30. Saved up $40,000 to put a nice down payment on my first house, then I got married :lol:

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Shell, the best thing you can do is get out and find a job and get back into college. It will do your self esteem a lot of good to start earning your own money. There are grants and loans for those who cannot afford to go to college. I would recommend going to work and saving the money to pay your way through school. If you want to learn how to drive a truck, you will need to either finance the training yourself or wait until you are older before most carriers will hire you. You can get the CDL at your age, but will find it difficult to do so without a truck. If you were older, there are some carriers who will train you as long as you agree to work for them for a specified amount of time, usually 1 year. The problem is that unless you stick with them you will be on the hook for the cost of your training. You have at least 2 years before most carriers will hire you due to insurance requirements. The problem you have right now is that you have too much time on your hands. Go find a job. If nothing else, you can to work at one of the fast food restaurants. Most of them pay fairly well for what you do. If nothing else, it will keep you busy until you decide what you want to do with your life. Right now, you have it pretty easy living at home. Perhaps some of the problems you are having at home is due to you not getting out and doing something with your life.

you better join the military. see the world, get laid and grow up. you got some college and no drug abuse maybe you could be an aviator.

I got an early retirement from the military back in October. Got paid good money and was provided good benefits while there. GI Bill for education was one of the benefits. Also got to go to Japan once, Saudi Arabia once, and Germany twice. Along with some stateside locations like San Antonio. The military is a good gig to start with.

Why did you drop out of college? Why haven't you worked? Sounds like a crap work ethic combined with a crap attitude. Thats going to hurt when you apply.....

Join the army, work on an offshore oil rig, etc. Plenty of options for you.

I didn't read page 2 and 3, this just addresses the first post.

Well, the oil rig thing was just an option he has, although it may not be the best one. :wink: