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^ Top   #141   11.13.2009

Peanut Butter Road Train Member   Last Seen: 5 Days Ago 10.35 PM Member Since: Nov 2007 Location: PO Dunk Idaho Trucker? 5 Years Age: 47 Posts: 1,268 My Trucking Photos: 4 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 338 Times

I to have decided that otr is over for me, no more, from now on its a local driving job only going within 50 to 70 miles of home and be in my bed at home everynight or i will find something else to do, its just not fun to drive a truck anymore.

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^ Top   #142   11.18.2009

Redwolf Light Load Member   Last Seen: 1 Day Ago 10.27 PM Member Since: Jan 2007 Location: IL Trucker? 3 Years Age: 43 Posts: 298 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 14 Thanked: 17 Times

I've been doing this for 3 years now, and the company makes all the difference. First company was a starter company who held your hand and mandated everything you did. Current company is a private fleet that gives you a trailer number, the bills, and tells you to call em for the back haul. If they don't have one, you come home empty, getting paid hub miles all the way. Weekends off don't suck either. It was actually a big shock when I first started with this company. I went from having everything dictated to me, to being on my own. It isn't perfect, but no job is. I get aggravated at 'em on a weekly basis, but show me a company that you don't get aggravated at. It's how you approach the job you are in, as to how happy you are going to be doing it. __________________ It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood;." THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Paris Sorbonne,1910)

^ Top   #143   11.19.2009

lamont1986 Bobtail Member   Last Seen: 12.19.2009 08.34 PM Member Since: Jun 2007 Location: Fayette, MS Trucker? 2 Years Posts: 13 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 0 Times

Quote: Originally Posted by Biscuit75 Yup, I'm a part timer. 13 years driving. Did 10 1/2 years OTR, 1.5 million miles accident free. Owned my own trucks. Sold them to go haul gas two years ago because I like to have a life of my own. Actually made more money than I had at anytime in my trucking career. Got hurt in a non work related accident that led to me being laid off. Unemployment wasn't cutting it so I sucked it up and went back OTR in May, something I hated to do because, you know, I actually had a life for once! So enjoy having one less space taken up in a truck stop there super trucker. This part timer will be thinking of you when I am having a beer after a long 10 hour day and maybe 200 miles. Enough said!!! Alot ppl cant say that, or tryin to get like that.. Its a cycle, until u know deep down u are done with it you'll always come back.. But with that gig u got going now, why be otr!! Its pointless really.. Keep pulling that gas biscuit... Get it done and go in sleeper or truck stop... Nooooo!!!!, get it done and go HOMMMEEE!!! LOL __________________ ~T&S TRANSPORT~

^ Top   #144   11.19.2009

jeepskate99 Road Train Member   Last Seen: 5 Minutes Ago 10.04 AM Member Since: Nov 2008 Location: The Great White Northeast. Trucker? 0-1 Year Age: 31 Posts: 1,493 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 70 Thanked: 332 Times

Quote: Originally Posted by lamont1986 Enough said!!! Alot ppl cant say that, or tryin to get like that.. Its a cycle, until u know deep down u are done with it you'll always come back.. But with that gig u got going now, why be otr!! Its pointless really.. Keep pulling that gas biscuit... Get it done and go in sleeper or truck stop... Nooooo!!!!, get it done and go HOMMMEEE!!! LOL BOO-YAA. That's how I roll. __________________ Quote: They say if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish.... then he's gotta get a fishing license, but he doesn't have any money. So he's got to get a job and get into the social security system and pay taxes, and now you're gonna audit the poor sucker, cuz' he's not really good with math... -Doug Stanhope

^ Top   #145   11.21.2009

Powder Joints Heavy Load Member   Last Seen: 1 Week Ago 10.41 PM Member Since: Sep 2007 Location: Kern County, CA Trucker? 27 Years Age: 54 Posts: 753 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 214 Times My Truckers Blog : 1

Good Deal glad to hear you landed something you like. Run fast and don't look back. I run Semi local, between CA NV UT AZ, Home 3 out of 5 nights, its been 3 or 4 years since I have worked a weekend. You will love, God's Speed. __________________ This too shall pass.... Just like hotdogs w/cabbage and beer... I got to go ....

^ Top   #146   11.23.2009

Mr Ed Light Load Member   Last Seen: 1 Day Ago 11.39 PM Member Since: Apr 2009 Location: Taunton Ma Trucker? 29 Years Age: 59 Posts: 88 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 17 Thanked: 33 Times

Quote: Originally Posted by doubledragon5 Everyone is different. Some like flatbed, some like dry van. Some like hauling tankers, and other like sitting at home on their duff, and collecting free hand outs from the government.. Tell me more about the free goverment handouts!!!

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