Originally Posted by chief

"there is 2 kinds" ha! you mean literate and illiterate?

actually, there ARE 2 kinds - people who work, and people who post messages on the internet every 5 seconds! when do you people work? when I drove, I was hard at it from can see until can't see. and I didn't/couldn't get on the internet - hell I didn't even have a cell phone.

but OK, I'll bite. what kind of "business decisions" does a company driver have to make?

Originally Posted by notarps4me

Try trucking smart. Keeping low OOR. Getting good fuel milegae. Proper planning. Not thinking like a steering wheel holder, etc..

Originally Posted by notarps4me

Guess it is over your head driver. Since you never made any.

Originally Posted by chief

yeh - you're just too business savvy for me, driver, I mean, uh, "business owner." actually, the things you listed are employee decisions, NOT business decisions. I was well aware of out of route miles, fuel economy and proper planning (and always had a lot better fuel mileage and less OOR miles than other drivers, I mean, uh, business owners.) maybe I'll go pick up cans on the side of the road and turn them in for loose change. will that make me a business owner?

Originally Posted by chief

maybe I'll go pick up cans on the side of the road and turn them in for loose change. will that make me a business owner?

Originally Posted by Biscuit75

So the time has finally arrived. I am once again done with OTR driving. All the bravo sierra laws and tactics the state and federal governments are doing to make it impossible to make a decent living. No more having to worry about freezing or burning up because it's "illegal" to idle. I got home and turned my furnace up to 70, then left my apartment. No sitting around a truck stop waiting to get another load or waiting to go deliver. No more lumpers or 400 lb. a-holes dictating how long I sit in a dock. No more crappy truck stop food or fast food being my only choices. No more toilet paper made from petrified tree bark.

I found out about 6 weeks ago that I was hired by a local fuel hauler. They have a new account they picked up here in Central Ohio and I was one of 6 drivers they hired. I did this before and was laid off last December. Took me longer than I wanted to get back to hauling gas, but the time has finally arrived. I just flew home (in leiu of a bus ticket) and have a week off before I start. It feels good to know that I won't have to go back OTR.

I hate it. You can keep it. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Originally Posted by chief

well, ifn' you see me on the side of the road, toss a can my way. look out bill gates, here I come!!