Profile For Austin J.

I Started out of CDL school with Doug Andrus Distributing. I would absolutely recommend. They are a medium size company (200-300) trucks out of Idaho Falls ID. The owners are good honest mormon people. I drove regionally hauling flatbed in the northwest mostly while I was there. I made around 60k a year my first year, although ive heard from some guys I know that are still there that they've increased pay since then with inflation going crazy. Not sure where you are located but if your willing to be based out of Idaho you really cant go wrong with this company.

Hello all, I started hauling crude oil locally for Maverik out of salt lake city in may. We haul super sets and do a lot of dirt road driving, sometimes 10-15 miles A day on the dirt. The roads are often pretty narrow plus lots of steep hills and sharp turns. Coming into this time of year things are starting to get pretty muddy and the snow is starting to come in over the mountain passes. I've done a few years of highway driving but this is my first job pulling doubles, hauling tankers or driving a lot off road. We also drive over Parleys, Daniel's and strawberry everyday and all three passes are known to get a lot of snow. So needless to say I think Ill be doing a lot of chaining this winter lol. Does anyone here have experience with this kind of stuff and have any good tricks or advice for me? We have a power divider plus forward and rear differential locks equipped on our trucks. Can anyone explain to me the difference between those three switches?