Anyone else have L.O.I. days?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by mcgoo422000, May 8, 2013.

Do you hate trucking?

  1. All the time I hate it like an ex-wife

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    I find myself hating it more as time goes by

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    very seldom

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  4. Never

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  1. mcgoo422000

    mcgoo422000 Medium Load Member

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    L.O.I. aka: Lack of Interest days. Those are days when the loads pay so little, have way to many stops or go to either the armpit or buttcrack of some god forsaken area.
    Seems I have more of them days lately. It starts off all rosy and good and by the time the first hour has passed you done heard coutless lies or crap. You find yourself fixated on some daydream and the day has gone by and you realize you could have been doing something else other than load planning.
    I have to say after the new wore off all the travelling and I found out how bad these brokers were abusing me with cheap crap this job could never pay what it's really worth. nearing the seven year completion mark I have to wonder how some of you have done it for so many years? Other then the tax deductions I take that have me paying near zero in taxes this career choise is far from what anyone thinks it is. Why anyone would want to make this a life choice is beyond any reason I can come up with I'm waiting on my ship to come in so I can cast fo this boat anchor called trucking.
    Does anyone else ever feel like this?
     
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  3. truckon

    truckon Swamp Thing

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    I'm having one of those days today..
     
  4. mcgoo422000

    mcgoo422000 Medium Load Member

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    I had to tell a good paying customer yesterday to NEVER Call me agian.
    They's nice people but way they do business sucks main redeeming factor is they pay real quick. I looked back at their account and every load I've done for them was either going to no load back land or some other problem with their information. Today has been filled with brokers who think all drivers are dumb and can't figure they're paying nothing. I read somewhere truck drivers have a shorter life expectancy womder why?
     
  5. 900,000-tons-of-steel

    900,000-tons-of-steel Road Train Member

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    It's time for a job change. Transition into a better area of trucking. It doesn't all have to be otr freight.
     
  6. kw600

    kw600 Road Train Member

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    Having that kind of a week. Gets crazy driving 7 weeks in a row need a break!.
     
  7. mcgoo422000

    mcgoo422000 Medium Load Member

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    Joy joy I'm going to transition to Atlanta for a big 3 mile haul paying 300.00 then I can go home at least and end the week on better note or beter yet maybe a B'ham al load after that.
     
  8. Sly Fox

    Sly Fox Road Train Member

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    Usually when I'm in the northeast and trying to determine whether to deadhead out or keep looking for something decent.
     
  9. Rehab

    Rehab Bobtail Member

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    The only thing I don't like about trucking is, and its not really a trucking issue, I have to have a physical street address to get a checking account. I don't have anyone I can use for an address so I maintain a dumpy mobile home to use as my mailbox. Its the cheapest way I could go and I get some storage for my useless junk as well. If it wasn't for that I'd live in my truck 100% full time until they had to pry my cold dead fingers off the steering wheel.

    Truckin ain't a job, its a lifestyle.
     
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  10. bubbanbrenda

    bubbanbrenda Road Train Member

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    I think they have regulated the career out of it now its just a job, and not a very good one at that.just my 0.02.
     
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