Driving, again, after four years ...

I was raised on a family farm in Saratoga, California and was driving everything by the time I was ten years old. I think the first rig I drove was a FORD 1959 something or another. If you've ever seen a picture of C.L. Werner's first truck? It looked a lot like that.

Got my CDL in 2007 and drove with Stevens until I switched to Werner. When I had enough money to move back to my home town of Santa Cruz, California I did. I got an office job selling tools to contractors. Then the construction market tanked.

I fell in love and moved to Oregon. Drove Taxi there for a few years, and went back into Truck Driving. I chose C.R. England. That lasted only long enough for me to go back to Werner, and it was different driving with a family than when I was single. Real different.

Some family health problems took me off the road.

I moved back to Santa Cruz, California and drove taxi there for three years.

Now I'm taking a little vacation and will be starting with Werner again in January of 2016, as a single man with no family.

Eventually I'll end up buying my own truck. In the meantime I'll be driving OTR and just getting experience. The only thing I feel comfortable doing is driving. I know the lifestyle, and it's in me.

I'm not as young as I used to be, so loading/unloading freight isn't something I plan on doing. I'm fifty six years into this thing called life. I want to retire early and just travel. Kind of like driving truck, but without any dispatch.

I've been reading the forum, mostly the advice/questions for new drivers (which I consider myself).

And that's my intro.

 

You bet'cha.
And to you.

 

Thanks. And right back at'cha.

Whatever puts me back on the road has got to be a good thing.
With or without double freedom and a half.

Who you driving with, @Mudguppy ?

 

Thanks, @Chinatown.