Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

You ever heard of PTO? If you need a 3 or 4 day weekend it's nothing but a thing to have one, and several times a year if you want it. Most of the LTL's are similar to Walmart in that regard that the PTO builds up from day one of working, accrues fairly quick and can be used as soon as you have it. None of that working a whole year first BS. You should get 4 to 5 weeks of it in your first year at a decent company. And you don't have have to take a whole week off at a time either. Most truckload carriers give you what? A week after 1 year, 2 after 3 and 3 after 5 or 10 years? And you can't take off a day or two here and there, must take a whole week at a time?

 

Like some have mentioned running wild as an extra for an LTL would be great money and fairly close to the OTR way but if you don't want to you don't want to. My biggest regret getting into trucking is that I didn't get into what I'm doing now or LTL a couple of decades ago. I wasted a lot of years hauling general freight. It's a race to the bottom and you won't ever be satisfied with what they throw your way.

 

Then you'd better retire, because the OTR you want doesn't exist anymore. At least not with the paycheck it once brought.

I resisted going local for longer than I should have - for good reason. There are a lot of things I don't like about my new gig, most of which I knew I wouldn't like before hand. On the plus side, a lot of the aggravations have disappeared. In a year, I'll have my house paid off. In 5 years, I'll have my sister's house paid off and my 3 god kids trust funds fully funded. I work to fund a lifestyle I want for me and mine, not to enjoy the work.

 

@gentleroger some of us enjoy the work a little too much and I am including myself in that

 

Good lord, some of yall on here just say the same things over and over again, simply wording it differently. Read the thread, enjoy it for what it is, and move on. I commented my opinions in the past on this thread about the next best thing, but my next best things isn’t @supersnackbar next best thing, I don’t ever really recall him asking for help on what’s next, he definitely has an old school way of venting his frustrations, but it’s his career and his choice who he works for and how he works, it’s funny how we get so wrapped up in it. Safe travels north, I like the accurate depictions of the highs and lows of the job, right wrong or indifferent.

 

Its amazing how much unsolicited advice they are trying to give a guy that has 40+ years of experince out here.. id think snackbar knows just fine what he wants to do out here by now