Apology

What is the hidden message in John Denver's song "Rocky Mountain High"
Pot is legal in Colorado.
Don't fret Happily Retired we all have our opinions; you're doing ok. Eat some brownies and relax.

 

You're alright, sometimes you have to fight it. But other times you just have to go with the flow. Like a twig on the shoulder of a mighty stream.

 

I feel ya, I sometimes have to resist the urge to troll the drug testing threads lmao. Just gotta ignore em at least every once in awhile.

 

It's definitely different then last century.

 

Greetings,,; After reading your Post reply I totally agree with your statement. Trucking has become a trap, a trap for humans that Do Not understand the Bussiness and Do Not understand the numbers. (this "Hat" does'nt Fit everyone).
Young drivers see those weekly settlements and they feel their Lives are going to change, little they know that it is Not like they think and discover that they remain with a chain locked to their ankles and most of the time they end up Bankrupted. I started driving Stateside USA in 1995 first as a Co. Driver and by 1997 I was Owner Oper. with One of the biggest Co. in the US. We used to pay 0.92 cents a Gallon of Diesel in GA, and 1.10 plus in other States. By 2003 I realized that the numbers were Not good and the Battle was Uphill all the time. The "Big company" and it's Sub's went "Belly Up", I went back to Co. Driver. The $$numbers went South, the Truck Units multiplied with out Control, Regulations and Derregulations went haywire..,more and more Companies went Bankrupted. New Companies appeared....Things were troubling, Thousands of Drivers came into the bussiness with "phoney" CDL's, lots of them got caught, lots of them fell thru the cracks....Trucks numbers kept rising.....the numbers$$ were never right. Today..(since 2020)!! I'm RETIRED....RV'ing thru out the GREATEST NATION that ever existed, USA.!
I give you "words of Wisdom", if you decide to drive an 18wheeler, STUDY THE BUSSINESS, STUDY THE NUMBERS, STUDY THE PRESENT TIMES, put Family in the Number #1 position, Health in #2 and $$$ in #3. and REMEMBER....Technology is and going to BE A GAME CHANGER...! It already is!!!!

 

@Happily Retired
Mike Tyson is here to help..

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Go bite some...ears?

 

The thing you’re overlooking is the truck didn’t have problems. It’s was only a programming issue. These aren’t the trucks you’re familiar with and trying to compare them to those old trucks is foolish. There are a handful of computers that run everything. The wiring behind the dash is all multiplexed and there are hardly any wires compared to the trucks you picture in your head. On my last truck there was an update for the cab computer. They flashed it and I left. It was summer time and a few days later when it was raining I noticed my lights turned on when I turned the wipers on. No biggie, swung back thru Peterbilt and had them change it. Sometimes computer updates will default to factory settings, sometimes people forget things and they fall thru the cracks. Either way it wasn’t that big of deal, his new truck wasn’t inoperable.

 

We all have our opinions and when you donate your life to a industry you become very passionate to help keep it thriving
.. I question the futher of this industry myself when you.read some of the things posted on this forum..
But it's a completely different type of human that roams the parking lots of truck stops then it was when some of us started .. I just do my best to avoid it .. Even then I tend to call it as I see too it right wrong or indifferent..
I think alot of us see & understand what your saying..
That's big of you for the Apology.. but I need to remind you about the honest reply you just gave somebody a few days ago in reguards to the smart ### ..instructions I offered him.
So That Trumps what ever it is your apologizing for