Transition Out of Trucking...

Is there anything at all you like about this profession?

 

time off?

 

I know it sucks and why I don't miss driving trk.Trk drivers a are 100% controlled by the government and by the motor carrier and it's getting worse.Companies think more money is going to fix the problem but they can't be anymore wrong.I got a call from a congressman representative,he left me a long voicemail.He likes all my suggestions.I remember writing him but it's been so long ago I forgot all I said.I did try calling back but got some automated message I couldnt understand so I'm going to look him up online today.He did say in the voicemail that he aggrees,the industry is overregulated.

 

Get right on that...you could be our next spokesperson...always get things when there hot

 

lol,I say it like it is and hope I offend some elected officials in the process.

 

Was talking to a jockey at Anheuser a few months back in Ohio - asked him what he pulled down. $21/hr.... That's a pretty good racket.

 

Got a friend that works at a warehouse in east Texas as a yard jockey making 18/hr 3 12 hour shifts....always so jealous of him lol

 

I just got off the big road a few months ago and went back to a company I worked at years ago. Winter months(I live in northern ON, Canada); I am in the shop and typically work 7 am to 5 pm. Come spring summer and fall I'm in a dump truck and usually work 6 am to 6 pm. There are some longer days of course but at the end of the day, I shut the shop door or the truck door and I go home.

Long haul I ran loose leaf so if I wasn't tired and was under a load, I was trucking. Made good money but like all of the guys who complain about it; I had no social life and wasn't home to see the miss' much.

 

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