That's it. I'm done. It's over. Ya'll can keep that OTR garbage.

congrats biscuit.

 

Congrats on the local, Biscuit. My favorite part of driving local/regional is driving around at 7 at night not having to look for a parking spot for the night. I don't feel too nostalgic driving past the big trucks parked on the ramp .

 

By the way Biscuit...Congrats!

Do we get to see a picture of the new ride?

 

If you do everything that is required you shouldn't even smell like gasoline. Our trucks never had a smell inside the cab and after the shift we never smelled like gasoline. Of course there's mistakes and I took a 1203 shower once but all of us drivers always had a clean uniform and there was a shower in our office. Were you using the vapor recovery? For some reason some drivers think it will unload faster but it won't. In fact you're creating a more hazardous situation if you don't recover the vapors.

 

This is the total opposite of my story lmao. First of all congrats Biscuit. I have a $20 hour local job for Sysco and hate every second of it. The corporate a holes of Sysco live on making bonuses from breaking my back, and I can't take it anymore. They treat me like a mule, and when a mule is done, you terminate it and get a fresh one. I have to maintain 112 cases per hour delivered or my butt is getting chewed out. But when there's 1100 cases and 23,000 pounds of sheeet on a 32 foot trailer, it's impossible to move, and slow to unload for the first few stops. So, you're throwing like a mad man towards the end of the day to make up lost time. Then you mess up your back, and once that suckers messed up, it's messed up for life. I've had mostly physical jobs all my life, but this one is the worst. I'm a weird type of person. I actually like challenging obstacles in my everyday life. I become depressed or bored when I'm working local always doing the same thing. So, I'm going to be an otr O/O. I told myself after my last OTR job the only way I would go back to OTR was if I was an O/O. I couldn't stand the company telling me how to run, or how long I could run my truck or stay home. OTR is tough, no doubt about it. I could only imagine how hard it would be if you have a family. I don't have a wife or kids. probably never will, I have no idea why, but that's the way it is for me personally. I'm not looking forward to the waiting and lumpers, and all the negatives of being OTR. But I still think it's got a lot of great attributes about it as well. No boss looking over my shoulder. No regular boring routine punching a clock every day wishing for a more challenging experience. No corporate jerks telling you to do more and more and more and more for the same, if not less pay. But al this said, my ultimate goal is to save up enough in ten years to pay off my house, then get a sweet easy city job running a street sweeper.

 

Just proves the old saying: "the grass is always greener on the other side." until you actually get tothe other side, that's when you find out it's just as brown and dead as where you started!
I am starting to think that anything to do with a truck stinks!!!

 

I agree Dave.

 

...unless you're in California...

Because the grass IS greener on the other side....'cuz it's been painted!

 

what kind of driving do you do that you make $1800 a week AFTER tax? sorry, but anybody who drives a truck is NOT a business man, or business owner (or "buisness" - whichever you prefer) - you're a truck driver.

 

That's bull sheet. If you're watching your money, keeping good records, planning future maintenance and upkeep costs, estimating your operating costs, paying quarterly taxes, looking for good paying loads, staying legal, driving safe, keeping good relations with customers, always researching new ways to save money, make money, trends in the industry, and staying current with any new laws,,, you're a BUISNESS MAN (Or WOMAN)

You take out only the driving safe part, that's a standard plan for a successful buisness person.