Yep, I'm in the same boat. Lost my job twice since 2003 to India and am now going to drive a big rig over-the-road.
"going to drive a big rig over-the-road."
That's a job that's fast becoming one of those "jobs that Americans won't do."
save your money and invest wisely...a mexican will have that job within 3 years!!!
Don't quit looking...CAFTA opens the the highways to drivers as far south as the South Pole...
I hope someone else is paying your fuel bill. My brother in law parked his rig and started doing odd jobs. he says he is making more money and home every day. Good luck!
Driving a big rig? Did you know that there is a codicil in CAFTA which allows Mexican (and Canadian) long-distant truck drivers free access to US highways? No more transshipments just across the border. AND...their trucks don't have to pass state safety regulations.
From what I've been told by one of my colleagues over in the economics dept., most of the cargo handling corporations in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut are relocating all their cargo handling facilities to Costa Rica and Panama, paid for by us via CAFTA handouts, whereof the cargo will be shipped straight north to the United States by Mexican long haulers right to a Wal Mart near you. And you can be sure those truck drivers aren't going to leave once they're here.
I'm not surprised. I lost faith in W when he bowed knee to the communist Chinese and paid a ransom for the return of those air force personnel the ChiComs knocked out of the air years ago.
Mexicans and Canadians have already taken those jobs.