Advice? Don't become a trucker.

You have it right. I may not love driving, but I do think it's great. Which is why I do it, and blog on ideas for drivers to better their physical and financial health. I figure, why not try to make things better, instead of whining and making things worse? But, what do I know? I'm just a dumb truck driver.

 

You GROW up. You will have your day- fool. Don't like what I post? I think that is just TOO BAD. This argument will continue into eternity, I suspect.

Paddington says it all. This job is not bad- for a while. Most people burn out, and quickly. For a while, it is quite fun.

It is not the worst fate in this world, though, I will give it that. However, it is not the best. There are many occupations that I would find more desirable. Like a librarian, for instance.

Local is quite a different story. There are still many bad local jobs though.

 

Can we all get our point across wihtout the name calling? Is it that difficult?

 

I have to say, you're an interesting character, carroll6.

For some reason, you figure that since you've had a rough time or 3 that everyone else will hate OTR. Yet, there are a plethora of those who still love OTR. I, for one, still like doing it. I prefer being on my own. I don't care for too much actual, prolonged human interaction. Therefore, OTR works great for me, for now.

Not everyone who does OTR will like it. Not all will hate it either. For some reason though, it seems that you want to paint a broad stroke over all of the trucking industry as a bunch of thieves and liars.

THAT is why I'm suggesting you look into what it is you might love, and do that instead. That way you might find more enjoyment in your life. However, I'm thinking you'd rather tell me how stupid I am, or to grow up, or whatever. Hopefully I'm wrong, but that doesn't happen too often.

 

It can be. I mean, it's not impossible, but it can be difficult. It all depends on if someone is typing with too much emotion.

 

I worked in radio from 1973 to 1983 when I left radio to start driving trucks full time a lot of people ask me why on earth would I quit such a cool job working in radio to start driving trucks well here's why. I started driving trucks off and on part time in about 1978 to help supplement my income (the pay in radio sucked, barley mim wage) I worked several radio stations across Alabama Georgia and Texas. In 1983 I was working the graveyard shift 6 nights a week at a FM station in Georgia and was working three days a week driving a dump truck hauling asphalt. One Friday I picked up my pay checks for both jobs and I made more in the 3 days driving truck than I did in the 6 working at the radio station so I decided to hang up the headphones and started driving OTR. I drove OTR till about 91 and the reason I decided to come off the road wasn't that I didn't like it, it was my kid.I'd come in on Friday evenings and he didn't even know who I was and by the time he got used to me I would have to leave out again and that really bothered me. So I took a job with a local cartage company pulling "Cans" out of the rail yards in Chicago so I could be home everyday. Did that for about a year till the company sold out. I then got into hauling gas and have been doing that ever since I went to work for the company I'm with now in 1993.I enjoy driving trucks and like others have said it's what you make of it.I just wanted to share my story with everybody just to show that there are some of us that have left what some would consider more glamorous jobs to start driving.To me "Their Ain't No Feeling Like 18 Wheeling" That's just my 2 cents worth but then again who am I?

 

You're quite good at the flaming and name calling yourself man. A lot o' "Rush Limblob" types on here.

 

I called you a bad apple many posts ago. That was in reference to the poisonous attitude you throw out to the new drivers, as if you're trying to taint them with your experiences, and passing them off as if those are the only experiences a driver will encounter. Other than that, I have only countered different points you have thrown out there.

And please, don't compare me to Rush Limbaugh. You'll never catch me coming home from the Dominican Republic with a bottle of Viagra that doesn't have my name on it. Or even one WITH my name on it.

 

These jobs are all right. WHy..they are not a "real trucker".

The experience that I am talking about is irregular route carriers that go all over the place. Never home. That is what the bulk of my experience has been. The memory of these companies is very bad.

That local job was just great. A OTR job isn't bad if you have something that you can pace yourself. I even enjoyed Averitt, for a little while.

Your sleeping hours gyrate wildly. Run all night. Sleep all day. Then run during the day, try to sleep at night. It has taken me a month to where I can sleep at night again.

 

see its guys like this that dont exspect much from the company and a decent wage(which is very understandable) but he truly love what he dos and dos'nt let the whinng and crying get to him,,,,,,,,,Than funny little word "enjoys" is a word not heard often enough these days