Advice? Don't become a trucker.

Bad apple..says YOU. Lemme see. I been doin this 20 years. I have 1,000,000 safe miles. I've got a lot more miles that that..actually. I have safety awards from every company I've worked for, including the last one, Averitt.

I've also gotten "Driver of The Month" awards from one company I worked for, Swift.

I already DID do something, if you didn't notice. My little video and essay rocked that company on it's heels. They never jacked with me again after that.

Once, down in Abiline, TX a reporter came up to me with his mic and said: "Well is the D.O.T. bothering you much these days?"

I replied.. "I am not worried about the D.O.T. I am worried about these COMPANIES OUT HERE.. not the D.O.T.

There were some jobs that I liked. I liked that local job I had.. that was great. I got treated good. Heh..but the road drivers, the owner operators they had? They treated them like DOGS.

I drove MANY a cab over. Drove those old Ugly Petes that Transport America had. The ugliest, and one of the most uncomfortable trucks on the road.

I liked old JB Hunt's flat floor cabover, and I liked Old JB HUNT..when JB was alive that is. That was a fine outfit.

Another deal is to just get your Instructor license from D.O.T. You just have to pass a test, at least that is the way it was back in the day. Not.. "driver trainer". This is just a way to dupe people into running team.

The best, finest truck out there.. is the one with NO SLEEPER ON IT..and A/C, and power steering.

I drove a lot of trucks without power steering also. Drove them without air conditioning for months too. Yup.

However, I am just leaning on every word from the "real truk drivers" on here. You geniuses enlighten me with every post.

ZERO miles of hard won experience.

 

Member Since: Oct 2008
Location: kansas city, mo
Trucker? 16 Years

Hmmm....

Joined the board in 08 claiming 16 years. Two years later have 20 years.

Dude... slow down, you are living at double time!

<chuckle>

 

Wow..oh wow you are perceptive. I drove since 1990. Hmm. But go ahead..I'll admit it..I'm lying lyin lying. I am caught.

I'll never get past ye geniuses. This industry is full of genius. So don't believe anything I say.

 

Lighten up Frances.....

Don't you know humor when you see it? Or did the <chuckle> escape your notice?

 

lighten up frances..................

love it !!!!!!!!!

 

Oh well..o.k. I was just thinking about my experiences (that I totally make up)..of going down the eisenhower in the winter with a set of doubles..westbound..and the way they cannot get all the ice off it. And hitting that trailer bar in the night..my heart pounding looking in the mirror and praying that back trailer wasn't coming around.

Or Jerry Moye's doubles, that he used to haul ANYTHING in. He'd load hay into them things. We'd make deliveries, having to break the set up and reassemble it in the dock, on multi stop loads. These were the 14' 1" hi cube doubles.

These couldn't go through the Eisenhower hmm.. I dunno if it was the height or hauling haz mat. But we'd have to go around Loveland Pass. 19 cent a mile. A LOT of driver unloads until people in the industry just rebelled. Many a young man hurt his back horsing that con gear around. Swift would haul ANYTHING in those doubles.

That dog food, which we'd have to load and unload was the worst. Then, haul ##### to wherever it had to get to.

The wonderful memories come back. The Food Lion warehouse. The A.G. Warehouses. The HEB and Scrivener warehouses. Such nice people and what a great time.

 

What kind of cheese would you like with your whine?

You have been driving commercially for 20 years. Yeah... You got some miles and stories to tell. <my first truck (back in 1984) was a 76 Pete cabover. No PS no A/C, single bunk running as a team, so don't act like you are the lone ranger in that regard.>

But it sounds like you have become disgruntled with the job....

Hey, it happens.... Perhaps it is time to move on to something else?

You've paid your dues. But if you are that unhappy with your job... Find another.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrllCZw8jiM

 

Let's NOT get personal here gang. Attack the post not the member.

 

what member has been attacked?

I don't see any.