Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Congrats, buddy.

 

just remember that if things start to snap crackle and pop. You're not really getting old. You're just getting crispy.

 

Edit:
I'll be with 21K of revenue this Tuesday for the month of August...I am mentally tired and this additional revenue does not make me any happier any more.
I know that it can go back to 1.50 per mile with a blink of an eye. So I want to keep doing what I am doing.
I am OTR but within 700 - 800 mile radius from home and my stays at homes are more or less en- route types. I've become easily irritated at truck stops and at warehouses and I need to watch myself not to show it. For instance, I demanded a shipping clerk to call me again and requested my proceeding into a dock in more polite manner, not the way you talk to a horse dog. If she did not do it, I would have bailed out...and she did not but her boss convinced me to change my mind by showing politeness and respect. This is all mental fatigue. I probably need to take a solid week off soon. But on the other hand rates are all right. Afraid to trumpet all that here and giving some enticement to new prospective likes of me... That's naive to think that or say that... I know. Another sign of fatigue.
If I only knew these rates were to keep up at this level for another year or two...I'd know how to plan the workload better. But it is too good to last for too long...this much I know.

 

Another fantastic week.

 

That's for sure. This upcoming one is looking good too. Man...will I ever come back home and rest?

 

If ive learned anything out here its that u gotta chase the money while its there and take ur rest time when it isnt

 

To a point. Once you get to where you're grinding gears and really fatigued, it's better to take a few days off.

 

Anybody else ever notice that the real fatigue doesn't hit until after you get home? When you're driving, you kind of like just do things on auto pilot, and don't notice the body aches and mental fatigue. Once I get home, everything hurts, and my brain is foggy for at least a day or two before I start feeling normal again. Sometimes I think driving from sea level to high elevations and back so quickly does something as well.