Life on the road

Lonely as he11. Lol

 

Cover your own a#%. No one else will.

 

First bridge you pass under clears the trailer for you, wind takes the rest after the sun comes out.

While taking your required sleeper time, you get up every few hours in a snow storm to maintain a bed you made for the 18 wheeler preferably facing downhill just a little bit. Back and forth, then back to bed a while.

You flip flop from day to night living every day.

Food varies, you take what you can when you get it and bring extras, it might be a while before you see food again.

Your expenses decide what you make at the end. If you gamble, ##### around or otherwise engage in drugs or drinking, don't. This industry has a zero tolerance for that. You are there to make money.

Truck first, then paperwork etc second, and you dead last. IE Horse, saddle and soldier. In that order.

You will think about truck and load more than your wife, spouse etc.

You will be in battle, being alert to anything every moment of your time driving and working. What you don't see in time will get you killed hurt bad or someone or a family killed or hurt bad. Most of the trucking is boring routine, spiced by 6 seconds of terror.

You will take on Nature in it's rawest power. Winter storms with ice etc. You might be macho and drive in 4 feet of snow all the time but when you are in a semi looking up at 20 to 30 feet above you..... it will put some hair on your chest.

That cab if you do not stay clean will stink up bad like a crappy gym. 700 miles into headwinds, particularly storm winds across Kansas, colorado etc will have you wrestle the wheel all the way across cursing your arms, god and everything else.

Something breaks, you fix it then. If you don't and YOU break.. well you are liable.

If you do something really stupid, they can take you to prison to sit and think about it up to the rest of your life. 2000 miles from your home and family. It might even be a federal case and that case you are buried.

You will meet many people. Some whom are parasites, predators and con artists evaluating you to see if you just came on the turlip truck this morning and what they can do to take advantage of you. Keep your head on the swivel. The idiot asking your time and in your face is covering for the ####### coming up behind you with a bat. Things like that.

ENJOY the trucking. It's FUN FUN FUN. Don't hit anything. Don't scratch nothing.

 

You’re doing it wrong, OTR can be fun as hell, a new city every night.

 

Eat. Sleep. Drive.

There is usually not too long of a wait for a shower. It depends on the size of the truck stop and time of day.

For me the worst thing is dealing with weather. I'm fine with being alone. It can get boring. You drive past a lot of places you'd like to visit some day but probably won't. I try to find a local event to check out if I'm on a 36.

 

You will wake up not knowing where you are or what your name is. That is always fun.
More to come.

 

When you have two little ones and a beautiful woman at home it’s lonely. When you’re deaf and don’t qualify for surgical installation of a Bluetooth headset so you can yak all day long, even more lonely.

 

If you don't like being alone....
Good luck.
I love it.

Worst part waiting at shippers/receivers I hate waiting.
And depending on someone else to do your job.