Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

I had to look up what a step brother-in-law was. That was a new one on me.

 

Haha yeah wasn’t sure how to put that. My wife’s step brother. In town for Christmas.

 

Ideally, from Christmas till Spring, it would be best to go into hibernation mode...like bears who gathered all that fat for their wintery sleep. All that winter driving combined with soon to be lower rates make the trucking less attractive. Now would be the best time to go to Cancun or somewhere exotic with palm trees and slack off for a few months. Well...if we only could afford it for a few months... Not necessarily financially but to be able to overcome the mental program of constant need to work and earn. That's a challenge. I don't know if I ever be able to retire and kick back for good, unless I know I have at least a million and half and a ton of gold in my basement. LOL

 

Can’t beat family time. Why do any of us do any of this? These times remind me that I’d rather live in a box then not have my wife and son. As a teen and young man I thought I had to make a bunch of money. It turns out that as you make more and more money, you realize that the people around you are everything. As long as you can pay your bills, that’s really all that matters end of the day.

 

I was fortunate in that sense. I worked in an office for 30 years just 5 minutes from home, and we took a family vacation every year. I started trucking when my kids were grown, but now my elderly parents are both winding down and needing more assistance. I find myself feeling guilty for not being close to home when they need me, and I'm always relying on my brother and wife to help out when I'm not home. I'm contemplating my exit plan from trucking now so I can be around for them like they were always around for me and my family. Not sure how long it will take me to get my alternative source of income established again, but I hope to be out of trucking completely in the coming year. As you said, family is just too important.