Wish me Luck.... I think

[TruckDriver]

I have 2 job interviews today. Well, actually, I just got back from the first one.

The first one is driving a quad axle Peterbilt dump truck with a company that owns 6 total. The job is simply stock piling two of Milwaukee's ready mix plants. The pay is 30% of what the truck grosses (about $20. a hour), and pays to me twice a month. The job is 50 to 60 hours a week. 
I will know by 6pm tonight if I got this job I was told. If I get it, I start Monday.

The interview this afternoon (in 3-1/2 hours) is for driving a single axle straight truck making deliveries for a small outfit that hires handicapped people, and they make small things like batteries and stuff. I would be only working about 40 hours a week making $8. or $9. a hour, and pays every two weeks.

Pros and cons;
The first job is a 45 minute one way trip. And after my trip there today, I can see my pickup will need a full tank of gas every 2 days (about $180. or so a week). 

The other job pays way less, but is only 25 minutes one way. And my truck would only need a tank of gas every 3 days (about a $120 or so a week, or about half the paycheck).

My only dilemma is this.....
I don't have enough gas money anymore to get to a job, til I would get my first check from either place. I have a half tank of gas and $65. to my name right now.
So obviously, I'm going to need money which I don't want to barrow. Thus, I don't know which job to take as I will need more money if I take the higher paying job, which is the one I really want. The other job pays so little, it will only let me get by barely, but that is it.

So, I need a job badly, I might have one by later today, but I don't have enough money for gas til the first paycheck.

[resq302]

Best of luck and I hope they both come back with an offer for ya so you can make a choice.

[The70RT]

Hang in there buddy. Hopefully you will get everything back on track soon. 

[PocketThunder]

Take the higher paying job and sell your truck and get a commuter car like the rest of us...?  Or move to where your higher paying job is, thats what i'm doing in two weeks.  When you are driving 45 minutes to work 10 hour days, thats half your day spent for work right there.  I'd suggest moving to the town where the job is and even walk to work if you can get close enough. 

[bull]

Yea, or keep the truck and buy a $500 commuter car like an older Accord or Camry. If someday it falls apart or grenades and the repair bill is more than $500 just take it to the scrap yard and buy another $500 commuter. An extra $10 or more per hour is worth the extra 40-minutes a day IMO.

[TruckDriver]

  I just got another interview offer for a job driving semi in state for $15.85 a hour, overtime after 8 hours. The place has been around for like 60 years, and is a local LTL truck service (West Bend Transit) with about 30 trucks. They are also in the Teamsters Union. I'm really thinking about this place. I always heard good things about them. 

I would have to get a Hazmat endorsement on my CDL, and have my finger prints taken though. Which would cost me more upfront money

Also, I canceled cheap $8-9 hourly pay job interview, and I am going to this one at 2pm. So I gotta go like now. Wish me luck 

[The70RT]

I just got another interview offer for a job driving semi in state for $15.85 a hour, overtime after 8 hours. The place has been around for like 60 years, and is a local LTL truck service (West Bend Transit) with about 30 trucks. They are also in the Teamsters Union. I'm really thinking about this place. I always heard good things about them. 

I would have to get a Hazmat endorsement on my CDL, and have my finger prints taken though. Which would cost me more upfront money

Also, I canceled cheap $8-9 hourly pay job interview, and I am going to this one at 2pm. So I gotta go like now. Wish me luck 

How did you do on the interview?  Good luck finding a 500 dollar import  Scrap metal is so high you can junk one for over 300. A huge car - 500 

[skip68]

Yeah, how did it go? I hope it went well!

We have several friends in the trucking industry, and it is a hard job! Kudos to you for sticking with it! My friend's major complaint is mechanics not fixing the things the're supposed to, and you find out a little to late! (Like on the job!)
Mrs.Skip68

[TruckDriver]

 

I got the call on the Dump truck job!!!! I start on Tuesday! This will be the most money I ever made in pay for a job. So, maybe this fall, or so, another Charger? 

[kab69440]

What is wrong with the Dak that it uses so much gas? I spend about 40 minutes getting to work in my 91 Cherokee and I can drive a week and a half on a $60.00 tankful, if I keep my foot out of it.

[The Kid]

What is wrong with the Dak that it uses so much gas? I spend about 40 minutes getting to work in my 91 Cherokee and I can drive a week and a half on a $60.00 tankful, if I keep my foot out of it.

The Cherokee gets way better gas mileage. I'm assuming his Dakota has the 5.2L V8, probably 11-12mpg on a good day. My Cherokee can get 20mpg if I'm nice to it. The difference in mileage adds up.

Congrats on the job !

[TruckDriver]

What is wrong with the Dak that it uses so much gas? I spend about 40 minutes getting to work in my 91 Cherokee and I can drive a week and a half on a $60.00 tankful, if I keep my foot out of it.

It's running great. Ever since I've owned it, I've gotten 14mpg consistantly. Doesn't matter if I'm pounding around or taking it easy

And, yup, I got the 230hp 318 (5.2L). By the end of the year, it will be making about 320hp

[PocketThunder]

I got the call on the Dump truck job!!!! I start on Tuesday! This will be the most money I ever made in pay for a job. So, maybe this fall, or so, another Charger? 

Where is the job at?   Do you love where you live that you wont move?  Just wondering if you are gonna eat the drive and keep the Truck.

PT 

[The70RT]

What is wrong with the Dak that it uses so much gas? I spend about 40 minutes getting to work in my 91 Cherokee and I can drive a week and a half on a $60.00 tankful, if I keep my foot out of it.

It's running great. Ever since I've owned it, I've gotten 14mpg consistantly. Doesn't matter if I'm pounding around or taking it easy

And, yup, I got the 230hp 318 (5.2L). By the end of the year, it will be making about 320hp

What kind of add ons are you doing to gain HP? Congrats on the job 

[TruckDriver]

I got the call on the Dump truck job!!!! I start on Tuesday! This will be the most money I ever made in pay for a job. So, maybe this fall, or so, another Charger? 

Where is the job at?   Do you love where you live that you wont move?  Just wondering if you are gonna eat the drive and keep the Truck.

PT 

The job is 45 minutes to the south of me in Sussex right on hwy164. Yes, I love the town I live in. I like small towns. And actually, the friends who know the owner of the company I'll be working for, and helped get me the job, also have a early '90s Pontiac Sunbird 2 door that they are going to sell me cheap, that has a 4 banger in it.

What is wrong with the Dak that it uses so much gas? I spend about 40 minutes getting to work in my 91 Cherokee and I can drive a week and a half on a $60.00 tankful, if I keep my foot out of it.

It's running great. Ever since I've owned it, I've gotten 14mpg consistantly. Doesn't matter if I'm pounding around or taking it easy

And, yup, I got the 230hp 318 (5.2L). By the end of the year, it will be making about 320hp

What kind of add ons are you doing to gain HP? Congrats on the job

A Hypertech performance computer chip, a K@N performance intake kit, and the Dynomax cat back super turbo dual exhaust system, and someone recomended Bosch platinum IR fusion spark plugs.

[PocketThunder]

My old roommates were telling me about the water tower in sussex one day.  Some painters were hired to repaint the town name on the water tower and they decided to paint it from right to left instead of left to right.  Wouldnt you know it, they only got 3 letters done by the end of the first day (Friday)?  Over the weekend the towns people complained enough that the painters were out there on Sunday to finish the job.. HAHAHA      

[TruckDriver]

I remember that too. That was all over the local news

[BigRed66]

buy a $500 commuter car like an older Accord or Camry.

...just an observation, but, given the state of the country, and the economy in general, not to mention the fact this is a Mopar board, how the hell can someone suggest buying a f#%king Jap car? How about a late model Omnirizon? Neon? Shadow? Spirit? Mopar 4-bangers are out there to be had; screw the Japs. My dad has a '99 5-Speed, 4-cyl. Dakota and gets 27 mpg just putting around town. Not trying to offend, just don't understand how a Moparite could EVER recommend a Jap car. 

By the way, congrats on the job. Great that it's an AFL-CIO job. Work Union, Live Better. American by birth. Union by choice.

[NHCharger]

  Congrats on the new job Pete.

[RD]

how are you doing on gas money for your first week of work?  I can shoot you $50 for gas for the first week as a gift, not a loan.  I dont want the money back (pay it forward hint hint).  Let me know okay.

[TruckDriver]

Thanks Jamey. That;s my biggest worry right now. Having enough til I get my first check in 2 weeks

[69bronzeT5]

Congrats Pete

[RD]

pete its done, sent you 75.00 KEEP THAT JOB BUDDY!

[firefighter3931]

pete its done, sent you 75.00 KEEP THAT JOB BUDDY!

Very nice gesture RD 

Pete, congrats on the new opportunity. 



Ron

[moparstuart]

jamey is just awesome