The new generation of "O/O's"

I wonder if he ever mentioned how many loads he picked up/delivered late due to excessive gaming. 30 minute breaks turning into 40 minutes, 50 minutes..."just one more level!" He's just one more stinky fish I would've thrown back in the pond. Sink or swim. I must be getting old, the "get off my lawn" guy.

 

I think what he meant to say was $720 on 800-900 miles

 

What i find funny about the whole xbox thing is how many drivers i meet who live on them. I know ive gotten more then one odd look or insult for sitting in the lounge on my 34 reading a physical book or even having my tablet out for an E-book.

Sure i have an xbox but i mostly keep it for when im bored and out of books on my 34 or to interact with family. Hell i only have it because it was quite literally thrown at me by an irate friend who is miffed i never game with him....and it gets used all of once or twice a month. Makes me agree with load though. I wonder how many of them are late all the time because they goof off on it.

Also im always shocked how many of these guys dont have a laptop either and try to do it all from a phone or if they do have a laptop its always a power hungry gaming rig that tends to pop inverter fuses. The one i use for my business is a little tiny thing i can charge off USB either my truck or a solar power bank if i need to and something majorly borked in my truck.

 

I don't understand the hate for video games. Its a form of entertainment. Nothing more nothing less. How a guy wants to enjoy his time off of work is up to him... How many people sit and watch politics until their brains explode, but #### on the people that plays video games.

 

You misunderstand me. I never said i hated video games. While i didnt say it, quite the reverse i actully love gaming. I just prefer books OTR they are relaxing while games tend to wind me up and make it hard to relax and sleep.

The issue i see is that its one of the more common distractions that can easily let time get away from you and people prioritizeing IT above more practical applications. Take ridges story, guy was more concerned with his xbox then laptop. Laptop would have been what i went for in a situation like that. Therefor without more info we must assume the guy likely has self control issues and inwas wondering out loud how common that is.

I also see people lugging around giant gaming laptops that either they cant charge in the truck if things go sideways. Many do not have them at all and try to do it all from a phone with no backup again if things go sideways. Hell i had my phone flat out stolen last year. If i had relied only on it i would have been in trouble. Hence my comments about my light usb laptop.

Hope that clarifys more what i was trying to say.

 

You need to come spend some time in my part of the world .. and if your here for a week you'd understand .. this is rual America.. theres S### to do there a S###load of job openings .. the farm kids would rather sit in the house and game all day rather than get their lazy ### out and help their parents do the daily chores and things that need done
Yes its partly the parents fault for letting them sit in the house and game 90% of them don't even know how to operate a scoop shovel or how do physical labor
But even if they knew how they couldn't last more than 3 mins cause their just breathing chunks of fat cellulose cause they sit on the couch with soda pop and chips & candy bars shoved in their pieholes all day while their play on their PS 5..
Its sicking to see and another reason why I'am not a parent or married nor do I ever want to be either cause Iam not gona fight with my wife about my kid sitting on the couch all day gaming instead of doing something productive
Yeah I guess I'am way to old school

 

My comment wasn't a condemnation of video games, but rather the importance that that particular individual who did not have the ability to buy fuel placed on his Xbox, rather than his laptop. One would think that the laptop was much more important to surviving in trucking than the Xbox was.

 

I don't need to do anything . I live in rural america. Your way of life is not the end all be all .. There's other ways to live and that doesn't mean if it's different it is bad.. Your statement is the definition of ignorance. there's is plenty of kids that have turned video games into a very profitable business. Does that make them stupid? Some of these kids make more money than me and you and everyone else here all combined...

 

I understand your post and my comment wasn't directed at you. More of just a generalization that people claim video games are like the worse thing that a person can do. Just don't really get the hate. Its entertainment... much rather see kids playing video games than destroying their community or doing criminal stuff.

 

Who gives a #### tho ? Why are guys so concerned with how some choose to live their life ? Truck drivers have to be the most miserable ####ing people on earth