Profile For Tony G.

@PJ Thank you! Will do :)

@ Sandman J Thank you for that advice. I've been over on TT's Paid CDL Training Reviews page looking at all the options. TONS of info there. I might have to make an Excel spreadsheet, include all the relevant companies and "tick the boxes" I need. This whole idea started when I was scrolling on my phone looking for a job and came across Roehl Transport and read about their offerings. Right now it's late here and I have info overload! :)

On Sept. 27, 2024, our house was hit directly by Hurricane Helene, which cost me a whole lot of money. Then just a couple of weeks after that, the CFO of the company I worked at for the past 14 years called me on the phone and said that AI (Artificial Intelligence) had just taken all the "human" employees' jobs, including mine. No prior notice, just a call: "Bye." That news was devastating because I have a family to support, live in the country with no jobs around here, no income and just 5 months worth of bill money in the bank before me and my family are homeless.

Today is Nov. 7, 2024 and I'm on a mission to start a new career as quickly as possible. It's taken a month to get started because our internet was down all that time.

I've done a whole lot of traveling in my lifetime and I love being on the road and seeing the countryside. I've had long haul trucker friends and have ridden with them many times and loved every minute of it. I've done nonstop "long haul" car and pickup truck trips many times. Once I drove a friend from Georgia to Vermont and back nonstop so he could bring his new fiance and her trailer full of stuff to live with him. Another time I used my pickup truck to drive nonstop from Georgia to Arkansas and back to haul a friend's old duelly Chevy C-50 tow truck back on a trailer to Georgia. He told me on the trip back, "Tony, you really should consider being an OTR truck driver. You'd be very good at it." I didn't give it much thought at the time because I already had a good job making decent money. Those are just two of many examples like that.

Driving is in my blood and the road seems to be calling me right now.

I don't have a CDL yet, but I just learned that trucking companies pay new drivers like me while they train them to get their CDL, then put them to work. I brought this idea up to my wife and she wants me to go for it. She supports it 100%. She sings for a hobby and told me she'd sing a cover of "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses" for me if I did it. So now I have to! LOL!

I've read a lot of this forum before I decided to join it and you all seem like really great folks. I'm hoping you folks will help me get on the road ASAP. I don't have much time. I have to save our home. If you can help me make this happen, I'll let you hear that song as soon as she records it! :)

Thanks in advance for any help and guidance.

Tony tgantt65@gmail.com