Do you plan to drive... forever?

I plan to keep on trucking for another 12 years at least and then retire. I definately plan to take a shorter easier run as soon as my seniority allows me to lock down a run in the lane I’d prefer to run.

 

Right now I’ll say yes, but also no. Cross Country has their eyes on me for safety or terminal management. I said no once to the safety gig, but I’m kinda looking at it as a maybe now. I’m feeling like I don’t want to drive much longer, going on year 27 behind the wheel and I’m tired of it.

Going into safety has a few perks but also a few drawbacks. I’m not really interested in terminal management, but I suppose if they let me put my touch on it, as long as I abide by the company rules.

So my answer is we shall see.

 

I took 1 1/2 years off trucking after 15 years in in ‘94 to consider another occupation. Ended up returning when I got a cold call to drive for a company, “quick turn around to the coast” owner heard I was sitting around doing nothing

 

I have been driving 37 years, will be 38 in January. I most likely will be driving until I am unable to.

 

I'll drive until I have nothing more to give to the industry. No firm timeline. If it's for the rest of my life, so be it. Just taking it day by day.

 

I'll drive forever, IF and ONLY IF I can continue to run my own numbers, schedule my own loads, point to the house the moment I feel like it and not feel like it's work when I work.

 

Once I got into trucking, I always kept a lookout for something else, but eventually stayed in it until I retired early once I had the money from not overspending. I no longer have ANY interest in traveling by roads ANYWHERE. I doubt I would drive someplace if they were giving away gold bars. I just have zero interest in being on the roads with the general population.

 

Never planned to do it forever and didnt
Got out of it decades ago and have zero regrets about that decision.