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Hey there's no place like home! for sure. So happy Trails to you guys, I guess I'll have to try and cover the prairie schooners for ya.
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well i guess im going to be retireing an then hit the road.
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Good luck with the new job gas hauling is the best of the best to do lol .....
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i heard from the horse's mouth that tankers are the way to go. the source owns 22 trucks and they haul 2 loads ea/wk,off every other weekend,health ins.,life ins. & paid time off. dude good luck with the local job and enjoy your ride
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Good luck with the local gig........Im guessing theres an opening at FFE....
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I wish all the rest if the "so called" drivers out here would quit too! I'm sick of the "I can't find a local job" crowd out here screwing it up for the rest of us!

Good luck with your local job...C-YA!
pull the stick out super trucker! cant you just be happy for the guy?
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pull the stick out super trucker! cant you just be happy for the guy?
Hey...I said "good luck" But I'm not gonna lie, I'm glad to see the part timers leave. We went through this stuff in the seventies too when Smokey and the Bandit came out and all of the sudden everyone had a C.B. radio and wanted to be a "trucker"! All of the sudden there were all kinds of people out here that were not cut out for OTR trucking. It was not as bad as it is now because the trucks were a lot harder to drive and the trucking companies were not getting subsidized to put morons in trucks!

When the part timers lost interest and it settled down to real truckers doing real work I was happy to see it happen. I will be happy every time I hear that someone that doesn't want to be out here goes home to work local or at Burger King or to the homeless shelter.

I'm not gonna pretend otherwise...
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I'm glad to see the part timers leave.....

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.
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Hey...I said "good luck" But I'm not gonna lie, I'm glad to see the part timers leave. We went through this stuff in the seventies too when Smokey and the Bandit came out and all of the sudden everyone had a C.B. radio and wanted to be a "trucker"! All of the sudden there were all kinds of people out here that were not cut out for OTR trucking. It was not as bad as it is now because the trucks were a lot harder to drive and the trucking companies were not getting subsidized to put morons in trucks!

When the part timers lost interest and it settled down to real truckers doing real work I was happy to see it happen. I will be happy every time I hear that someone that doesn't want to be out here goes home to work local or at Burger King or to the homeless shelter.

I'm not gonna pretend otherwise...
Don't be so modest driver... think about yourself for a change.......
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Yes do be happy and dont let anyone rain on your parade go and enjoy being home
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