Hard To Find Topics Here On TruckingTruth?

The only way you could make the information here easier to find would be to make a "master page" and put a link to every title or subject on the forums on one page but that would be thousands of links in one spot and would look "cheaply done" at best

OMG it would look like Craigslist

Craigslist makes my stomach and head hurt just looking at it. They look like the sewer of the Internet.

That tree idea is really interesting. We have the Trucker's Career Guide which is more like a chronological order of how you should be approaching your research:

Am I qualified?

What is life like on the road?

Would I enjoy being a trucker?

How do I choose a school?

How do I prepare for school?

How do I choose a company to work for?

....that sort of thing. I'm going to ponder that tree idea to see if that's viable.

OMG it would look like Craigslist

Funny you mention CL...when I am having a REALLY bad day... I just look at the personal ads...some of the absolutely insane ads on there have me laughing in no time..

Guy....reading the personal ads on CL scares the crap out of me. To think that those twisted,weird, sick individuals are free to roam the earth makes me glad that I take my 2nd amendment rights very seriously. Now if I want entertaining reading....I just read the employment sites to see what they are willing pay an experienced driver. Now that there is some funny stuff !!!!

Hehe, interesting. I do the same thing, CL always makes me laugh. Personally, I like to read the "looking for a date" topics. I've read some that made me cry in tears!!

Http://boise.craigslist.org/stp/3856756524.html

Hey Brett, I've always wondered how different it is in other types of trucking such as over sized heavy haul, car hauling, ice road trucking and oil field trucking than it is from your normal vans,flatbeds and tankers. I read your book and it covered the latter 3 and dump trucks. How much different is pay in these areas and what qualifications would you need to have to get into these type of jobs since they are much more specialized and more risk are taken. I'm still trying to get into regular trucking first but I thought I'd ask any way just encase there may be others wondering the same thing.

The specialized forms of hauling usually take 1-3 years of OTR to qualify for. Some of the oil fields will hire new drivers to haul water to the job sites, but there's also a lot of physical labor that oil field drivers are required to do most of the time. Ice road trucking you would need a number of years of OTR. That would be the furthest down the road of any of them.

The pay doesn't change too much, even with specialized hauling. Some of those guys are going to make pretty solid salaries, but it isn't much of a difference.

As Brett said all of those type of trucking would require a few years of experience at a minimum. Ice road trucking would be the last thing I wanted to do. Temps so cold the truck heater can't keep up and that's on a good day. And not sure if I can only do a max of 25 km/h. That's 15 mph on the ice. That makes for a long day.

Some forums use "stickies," FAQ, ect,that stay at the top of the forums that are just updated by the mods.

Thanks Gordon!

Yeah, this forum is a work in progress. I built it from scratch but it only has about 1/2 the features built so far that I'm envisioning. Some "sticky" topics are a good idea. I also have tags setup that will categorize the conversations by topic so that will help.

It's tough to figure out the navigation when you have 1000 different things to offer. You want everyone to be able to find everything they need, but you don't want to blast them with 1000 things all at once in one place.