Scary side of trucking

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by hopeful eyes, Jul 25, 2020.

  1. nredfor88

    nredfor88 Road Train Member

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    Go into the hole at the get go. Now that’s a solid plan there brother.
     
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  3. farmerjohn64

    farmerjohn64 Road Train Member

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    Start taking life one day at a time and now that you’ve just hit rock bottom it only gets better from this point on
     
  4. hopeful eyes

    hopeful eyes Medium Load Member

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    I have 4 lidocaine patches around my neck and shoulders right now. And the pain goes away like 70%. I have stopped taking muscle relaxers and pain killers. I guess I will remain a lidocaine junkie for the rest of my life :(
     
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  5. TravR1

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    Life sucks compared to what? What other experiences do you have before your life that you can compare it to? There's no relativity here to say life sucks.

    Life can just as easily be a fantastic thing. Even in hard times, because you are experiencing things. Now if you had a guaranteed existence for an eternity, then that might suck, because experience loses value.

    If you want to compare it to other life on earth than we looking really good. I don't want to even think about being a fly. I fly around and get caught in some web and some god-awful ugly monster crawls out and slowly eats me.

    No thank you.
     
  6. farmerjohn64

    farmerjohn64 Road Train Member

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    Even though I didn’t mean life sucks all the time, I do agree with you that it’s what you make of it
     
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  7. nredfor88

    nredfor88 Road Train Member

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    I’m as high tech as they come, but I still have an atlas. It’s not something I use all that often, but when needed it’s indispensable. The state by state information and routes from a high level without zooming in and out can be helpful at times. I wouldn’t be without one for the low cost.
     
  8. hopeful eyes

    hopeful eyes Medium Load Member

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    Just imagine a stupid driver drives the truck on Brooklyn bridge and the bridge collapses. That is a more scary situation for the driver than being a fly lol. Getting arrested and charged with destroying the Brooklyn bridge.
     
  9. HillbillyDeluxeTruck

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    Are you sure you're 30? Because you speak like you're 18.

    You don't even have a cdl, but know how cops treat people with cdl's. You're gonna go drive for Swift because some lying ### recruiter told you that you that you're gonna make 4k/mo, which isn't even great money considering you're gonna be living in that truck. Then you say you made $1800 last week delivering food or driving people around, so why would you take a big pay cut to drive for one of the worst companies in trucking?
     
  10. hopeful eyes

    hopeful eyes Medium Load Member

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    Because Uber is getting bad. And after gas and other expenses that $1,800 is like $1000. $1000 for driving around DC sucks. Plus, these gig companies can fire us anytime they want. I dont mind driving a truck all around the country for $1000 a week.
     
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  11. Mohtrucker

    Mohtrucker Light Load Member

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    Plenty of better companies out there that can train and pay better let’s not settle on swift. See that guy settled on the first company that would get him in a truck the quickest it left real sour taste in his mouth
     
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