Trucking can be like a bad marriage...

Ok...but it really only works if your a owner operator...or work for one...

Company drivers can't do this...

Cause company drivers don't have the ability to plan or negotiate loads...

Company drivers peek at about $800.00 a week...even if they earn their company $2500.00...

Company drivers really get ripped off with this cents per mile stuff...but for many that's enough and plenty...

Most have no idea the kind of money your company or dispatchers are making off of you...

They could make a million dollors off a load...and you'd still only get your 33 cents per mile...

U4EA...your smarter than me...so when I tell you how...you'll probablly laugh...but it's being done...but most don't share...cause their greedy...I'm not....

But again...this simple easy formula only works if your an owner operator or work for one...

I will share it here with you in a few guy...after I post one more thought...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKC1SO_LC18

Hi guy...

Why are so many people small? narrow minded?

Why do so many people define the world by what they have lived? rather than what others have lived?

Why are people small?'

And why are females so self centered? which set's them up to be ran over by players??

Do you know anyone who doesn't eventually rot and lay in a grave??

So if we all rot, and eventually lie in a grave...how is one better than another???

Other than the Messiah...

How and why are people so easily programmed??

Shallow mf's...

I've been in the farmland...the wheatfields...the canyons...I was raised there..

But I've also been in the canyons of the city...the gutter...homeless for a while...I have stared death and zombies in the eye...and they stared back at me...

We broke bread together...but I'm still here...

But yet these people here think I should look up to them because they were born defacto...

Without character and soul...it's all meaningless....let them continue to make believe they are who they are...it's all make believe...

Either your real or your not...and your on the real tip...cause your willing to explore and learn...about self and enviornment around you...

I've been there and done that...to the wheatfeilds of WA state...to the inner city dwellings of Oakland, CA...

I'm a true ghost....

 

A big hug for you...

Ok, well maybe a silly goofy awkward hug instead...



I see your really into science...cool...I have a scientific side...in the future I'll run some 'theories' past you...and you can tell me what ya think....

It's funny how people who 'don't try to be spiritual'...usually end up being more spiritual than those who do...

Perfection is the act of admission...it keeps the soul clean and honest...

Your alright with me kiddo....

 

As I sit here in this nice fall mid afternoon day...my nerves feel so calm and relaxed...

Away from the hussle and bussle of industry and loud machinery...the silence and sound of wind blowing through the trees and leaves has like a healing effect on the soul....

But it will end here shortly as I have to head out to work, and into a loud very impersonal enviornment of diesel engines, fumes, traffic, noise, vibration and yes...security guards with attitude....

Oh how I so wish I could leave it all behind...and escape into a cabin, deep in the woods, away from all this man made industry where everything is driven by greed and power and everyone else gets sucked into the fray....

Anyways...time to hit it....

Log cabin in the woods, where are you??



This is my church for the day....

 

1. My tolerance for this is deminishing by the day...as I was driving earlier...I got stuck on a two lane roadway after dark...and nothing but hyper bright headlights blinding and burning thee eyes...

I felt very annoyed...mad, and frustrated...but was helpless to do anything about it...

I had felt so calm earlier in the day while at my place...
This job is becoming physically uncomfortable...just sitting for such long periods of time...

I'm sure they have more comfortable seats one could buy...but who can afford a $1500.00 truck seat right now...



I mean it's one thing to not enjoy what your doing, it's another to be in physical discomfort while your doing it...

2. There's nothing worse than being at a quiet rest area where one truck is wasting fuel by idling even though it's cool out...and his dog gon compressior keeps exploding every 10-15 seconds...it's just so annoying...
Or when people pull next to you at night and pull their hyper loud air brakes...sounds like an explosion...and they wonder why people can't sleep so well out here...hours of service doesn't mean nothing...if you can't find a quiet place to sleep...
And the walls of these sleepers are thin...and don't insulate against sound to well...

3. The regulators want to shorten drive time back to 10 hours, and increase 34 hour reset to 40 hours...

These people are truly insane...If you can't dm recover in 34 hours...than one needs to seek medical help...good gracious...this is getting ridiculious....and very intrusive...That's why with all these dm regs, I doubt I have a future in this even if I wanted...

unless your content making $250.00 a week, and sleeping 20 hours a day...
I'm going to write a nasty letter to these people soon...and just let loose...

I posted the names and photos of two senators who are sponsoring this madness...a few pages back...I wonder if anyone took notice and wrote them?
We can gripe all we want, but unless truckers organize like the T party...your cries will go unheard....quit hating on people, each other, and start organizing...if you want change...

And some are just content to have a home on the road...and could care less what rules come down the pike...

Anyhow...that's all for now...

I wonder if the people who read this are randomn readers, led here from internet searches? or members?

It's funny...I typed in 'marriage'...on google...and this forum came up...

 

As I sit here parked...it just kinda saddens me that most of the drivers I see returning to their trucks...'wobble'...they don't walk...they 'wobble'...

Like those old weeble wobble toys...



I mean I was sitting here in the dark and noticed two big fellas weeble and wobbling their way over to where I was...
They were coming out of the light into a dark unlit area...so all I could see were their sillautes...like zombies from night of the living dead or something...

But luckley they both turned away at last minute and went in the truck infront of me...also parked in the dark...

I was like, what do they want from me...food?...

Then I looked across the lot and saw another poor fella wobbling to his truck...like a penguin...



I fill bad for these guys...I mean as I sit here...12:15am eastern time, real time...I'm witnessing the effects that long hours of sitting, driving, improper diet, lack of excercising, has on the body...

Cause I know these guys didn't look like this in highschool...or college...

You would think their wives would motivate them to slim down...or maybe their wives just use them as a paycheck...and then when they die, take the house and car...:smt061

But soon, if the TCA get's it's way...trucking will no longer be a refuge spot for the over weight and unhealthy...as they will be implamenting some kind of fitness test that drivers must fall below...in order to drive...

It's like a bunch of bored administrators, policy makers, are really clamping down on this industry...

As is going on now...as a DOT man is inspecting a peterbuilt truck...full blown inspection at 12:28 am....hope his log book is caught up...cause now trucking companies are being rated by a point system...based on how well or poor drivers do out here...

Big brother is watching...big brother keeps inventing agencies...to employ more people, who live off of tax money for their paycheck...

Anyways...I've had my fun for the night...being terrorized by weeble wobble drivers...and now a DOT man inspecting people at 12:30 am....

I better turn off my lights before he comes walking over here to give me an inspect also....ok lights off...later...