Burn Out

I have taken time off. I used to take winter off to work on house. And few years later took a year,worked 5 months and then another year to go to college.
Most people i know buy stuff on payments and need steady paycheck to maintain the hamster wheel... I never did that

 

I know a few drivers who take the winters off and go live overseas. They work with a company that allows them to and welcomes them back. I personally have been at this for pretty much five years straight nothing more than just my weekly vacation once or twice a year. But I try and find ways to get off the truck and entertain myself as often as possible while out on the road. Especially when I’m doing a 34 hour reset on the road or I’ve got like more than 14 hours between breaks. I’ll get out and do something which makes a huge difference for me.

 

I've been in and out of a truck cab since 1995.

Took 10 years off to go to mechanic school, then wrench on city buses.

Quit that, (burnout) cut meat for awhile, then the diesel started coming back up in my blood.

Ran "Midwest Regional" for four years, every state east of the Rockies except New England.

I'm ####ing done trucking.

I fix forklifts now. Pay sucks, but the schedule is nice (730am-4pm m-f).

I might not stay here, but I don't wanna truck anymore.

I'm an old, fat, wheezy, bald married guy, though, so YMMV.....

 

I'm the exact opposite, I've gone crazy every time I've tried something that has nothing to do with trucks.

 

i did the same, went back to wrenching for about 1 year, and found i remembered why i got out of that and INTO trucking..

it sucked getting dirty, dealing with nit-wit customers, children for managers, who don't know thier butt from thier elbow, but tell me how to fix a car, and most of all the heaviness of the work.

got back out of it again, back into trucking, till i retired.

i learned another lesson, like when you quit a job, to NEVER go back when they invite you to..??

never go back to a former career you left as well, it's never any better the second time around, like that last job you had as a trucker.....move forward, never go backwards.

you needed to get away from all that OTR, and get into a more regional, local or dedicated driving job........that was your burnout issue, all that stupid OTR BS......not trucking in of itself.

 

Its not hard to get burnt out trucking, and trucking isn't for everyone. You are alone the majority of the time, and away from home. But for most of us, once you have the experience where can you make a good living with only a high school diploma.

 

I’m currently on my 3rd time back to driving and loving it as a dedicated company driver. I almost never leave the trucking industry I just leave the driving part and sit at a desk or dispatch office or brokerage office etc ... I seem to be the opposite of you , I feel best and most human when I’m leaving in a truck over the road lifestyle. I’m loving it.

 

Burnout!!

 

If you hung it up with the realization of what it was doing to you.... Why are you entertaining going back?

I treat a job like I treat ex's. When we're done, we're done.

 

I loved OTR when driving was new. Every dispatch felt like an adventure. Dispatches to Florida in winter felt like a vacation.

I still love it now. Local gig driving at night. No one hassling me and it’s so peaceful. I pity the office people.