Trucking can be like a bad marriage...

I do hope all the drivers who have been running hard this week, flatbedding, dump, oversized, cement, van, refer, bulk ect ect...I do hope their home resting with their families, or out playing catch with their son...who could be the next Mark Mc Guire or Ken Griffey Jr...

Don't neglect your future...our future...

 

Hey U4EA...I uploaded two youtube videos of myself singing or rapping or or something, for the freedom fighters in Libya and elsewhere who are getting mowed down in the streets by bullets, by their own governments...(Kadafi, you coward, you got's to go)

How sad...

What's even worse is today on AM and FM radio...American media continues to dumb us down with music and garden shows and sports and this and that, while the world is changing before our eyes....

We as Americans have become fat, lazy and complacient...

People are getting shot down around the world, fighting for freedom...and we'de rather watch re-runs of Frazier...

Unfortunatly I can't post the video on here...cause I'm not allowed to show any image of myself...

But I'll like email you a copy or something...

Later guy...I'm outside right now and my butts sore from sitting on the pavement...

talk to ya tomorrow...

And everyone else, be safe...

 

Hi, I know I jump around....

but today I worked a trucking job...they paired me with an 'old timer'...

A guy who looked like he was straight out of the civil war...



but the funny thing is that he liked me..he liked me a lot...

Why?....I don't know..probable cause in real life I'm very respectful and humble...and nice and kind..

And in the end that's all people really want...

This guy had a thick sherman world war 2 type of beard...

and they kept telling me korny jokes I could not relate too...

but they were nice...old sherman williams type of nice...

Why do such back wood, civil war era guys or people like me when they meet me in person?

I think its because of 'honesty'...

we teamed and together drove 527 miles today....

And I dreaded every second of it....no wonder I droped out of trucking...even with a team member it felt so dry and empty.

At every of the 9 stops...it's like you were reduced to a 3rd world worker...

And I get sick of the guys with ear pieces in their ears...



This is what has destroyed trucking....

Your not cool...your childish...and I'll leave it at that...

Anyways...I'm out in the open, very vunerable right now...It's like 1:53 am right now...

Strange exotic bugs, insects, are attracted to my body heat or something...

Southern bugs or insects are like extra large or something...

Today sucked...even though it will generate a paycheck...it sucked...

Even the old time civil war partner of mine admited such....

Anyways...this post is now over...

 

Ok, I'm re-doing this post...cause the other one was even to korny for my own taste...

Everyone has their korny moments in the privacy of their homes, or around pals, but I tend to share mine with a mystery audience...

Usually their 'reasoning' behind most of my rants or posts...but every now and then one is just plain 'korny'...as this one was...so now it's gone...

Not much else to write about at the moment...

Things are still tough. Money based societies are only good for you if you have money...and you either have to steal it or earn it, or someone has to give it to you...there is no other way...

Everything has a price...a dollar value...not like when nomadic tribes lived here and taught the pilgrims how to eat and survive. The indians didn't turn around and charge them a fee for that...



Didn't turn around and charge them a fee to dock their ships...

But they sure paid a price later, for being so kind...

There was really no 'poverty' before this new money system was imposed into the world and this continent...

Populations were lean, and didn't balloon out of control. Life was simple...and it's ironic how people want that simple life back now...but can't get it.

 

Hi, not much to say right now...things are tough for many...

Many people, upon hearing I have a CDL with this and that endorcement...can't believe I'm 'struggling'...and not in a better situation...

There like 'Man if I had my cdl yadda yadda yadda'....

To them it's like being a MD, doctor, but not practicing medicine...

Just the fact that I'm so stubborn shows the extent I got emotional burned while out on the road, all the years and months lost to nothing...

Always taking the short cuts...just to end up where I'm at now in life...
That's what short cuts will do to ya...

I'm not saying i won't jump back into a truck otr...cause I very well could...but I'm doing my best to explore every other option first...

And again...I wouldn't mind a full time start at 6am, off by 6am type of local job...I'll take it...

Or even a out 2 days, off one whole night type of deal...or other such scheduales...

But the stuff I read about Southern Freight Transport the other day, no...no no no...

stuff like them charging you mileage pay to get home if they can't get you close enough...it's stuff like that I could never tolerate anymore...

Being bounced around the country by a 23 year old stranger, who goes home at 5 pm...and leaves you stranded in some frozen terrain...

Having no say whatsoever in your daily or weekly planning, as far as where you want to go...no...can't do it no more...

At least here, as much as I may resent a job, I'm off and home at the end of the day, to spend the rest of the 24 hour cycle as I please...

However, there are still a few nice OTR companies that I wouldn't mind working for...with nice equiptment, nice home time, and respect...

There are some still out there worth working for...not all of them have resorted to treating you, the driver, as a 3rd world immigrant...

Anyways...I've gotta scat...lot's on the mind today...

 

U4EA..

So sorry I've been gone...

But check it out...

Please take care of yourself first and foremost...be true to yourself...be you...
And once your tooken care of, others will benifit from that...

Like when your on an airplane...they always tell you to put on your oxygen mask first...for unless you help yourself first, you'll be of no good to others....



Please remember that...

 

I'm not registered as anything...

But lately I've been wondering why Republican polititions and or commentators ei Rush, Sean, Borks, and the rest, always seem to come out in support of big business...and seem to delight in seeing or watching every day normal workers loose more and more rights, or ability to bargin with their employers..

If Rush Limbaugh earned $7.50 an hour, and was unrepresented as an employee, had no say whatsoever in policies set by his employer, I wonder if his attitude would be different?

Or if Sean Hannity drove trucks today, for say .25 cents per mile, and had no way to negotiate a higher wage or other benifits, I wonder if Seans attitude would be different also...

I notice most of those who come out in support of large corporations, already 'have theirs', are millionares, billionares...
So of course they can rally against Unions, and rally against minimum wage, cause none of it effects them...

Talk show hosts are like Proffesiors in that they can theorize about anything, cause none of it really effects them.


And how do these talk show Republicans dupe their low income listeners into believing that if they made even less, had less bargining power with their massive employers, that some how they'll be better off??

Rush and Sean and others seem to think that if you hand all power and authority over to corporations, that they'll do the right thing...

Maybe Rush and Sean should read some of the threads on here...particularly the 'bad trucking company' thread...

The governments ran by people, but so's corporations...self centered or 'interest' human nature will or would dictate both, if not for 'balance'...

Corporations would rather pay you less, not more...

Their objective is to make themselves, investors, owners, rich, not you or me.

They pay a wage cause they have to, not cause they want to.

And they, corporations, could care less if there's a middle class or not...they wan't two types of earners in this country...

Those who earn $15,000 and less, and those who earn over $200,000 a year....

Like India or elsewhere around the world...

And this is even effecting doctors, and people in other proffesions...as now even in the medical care proffesion, they hire more and more intermediate care staff...so they don't have to hire as many doctors or pay them as much...

continued...

 

It just amazes me how Rep talk show hosts convince low income earners, and or salaried worker listeners, that if they made even less, they would be doing the right thing...

Continue to give millionare, billionare investors and corporations, huge tax breaks, and other kick backs, while clamping down hard on low income earners, and ask them to become even more helpless, and have less representation, in a time when inflation and high fuel prices and unemployment is hurting many...

They act like if you give all the breaks to the 'big guys', that the big guys will look out for 'the little guys'....

If that's true, than how come so many trucking companies make it near impossible to earn your quarterly safety bonus?

They put so many stipulations on it that it's near impossible to get it.
Again, that's the nature of the beast...not the latter.

I believe there's other areas the Wisconson governmer could cut back or save or raise money, other than going right after Union laborer wages or ability to collectivly bargain...

But he's simply following party or corporate ideolog, (which comes from big business)...which won't be happy until all unions are gone, done away with, and all obsticles are cleared for firms to do as they please, and pay what they want, to employees...

And right now their using polititions, and talk show hosts, to bring that about...

Millionare talk show hosts, telling their loyal listeners that they should earn even less, and become more poor and helpess, for the good of the corporations, and wall street club, who continue to out sorce more jobs, and figure out more ways to pay us less, work us less, and offer us fewer benifits...

But according to Rush, that's good...wow...