Wanna truck

WELL SAID!

 

Healthy driver, good luck with your superman mentality, never get sick never get hurt, won`t develop artritis or any other debilitating disease, must be nice to be naive and belieive all that crap.

Check what your gov`t has in store for you when you reach 65. Set up and maintain a retirement fund or work where they offer a pension. Your other option is learn to like the flavours of dog food offered or dumpsterdiving.

Best of luck in your choices

 

Healthy driver must think that he will always be healthy because that's his handle.I will take a lower paying job that has good retirement plans,life insurance and good benies any day ,even if I don't enjoy it ,cause I'm thinking about my wife and kids future.I don't ever want them to have to worry about what if Dad becomes disabled or dies and then who will take care of their housing needs etc.
35 years ago I had a choice take a high paying job in a Chemical Factory,or the school board job I had now.I saw too many of the older guys in the factory getting sick and dieing because of their chemical exposure ;it was a no brainer for me.Eventually the Chemical Plant shut down production and moved down south for lower production costs but the school district district is still here along with my pension which grows every year I stay there.

 

Self employed people buy insurance for illness, disability and death. I worked for the same company for 24.5 years and in that time amassed a pension fund of $120,000. In the spring of 2005 I quit and started my own business trucking and agricultural spraying. Today the company has a net worth of $600,000. I have a MUCH better feeling about "my wife and kids future" should something happen to me than I would had I stayed in my regular job. Life is too short to spend 25% of it in a job you hate and when you hate your job you invariably take that home with you and that negatively effects the other 75% of your life.

 

For Drifter1948 and whosedog, by all means, keep doing what you're doing. It's not for everyone to do something they love. It's not for everyone to determine their own destiny. It's not for everyone to take control of their own life. It's not for everyone to CRUSH IT, day in and day out. It's not for everyone to make sure they stay in great health, and to amass their own fortune, instead of working to make someone else wealthy.

I, on the other hand, will work at what I love(which is why I'm not going to be driving much longer). Working at what you love, means you'll enjoy doing it. When you enjoy what you do, you do it with enthusiasm, and that translate into a fantastic work ethic, and better mental health. Work is then no longer a CHORE, or a JOB. It's a passion.

You keep on plugging away for your dollars/hr and your benefits. I wish you 2 well.

 

Healthy driver must be an Amway recruit or something similar.
Sounds like he's drank someones cool aid.

To the OP............Don't leave the stability of a regular job that offers a pension for trucking. I have seen more than enough companies go out of business over the last 11 yrs,odds are that the majority of drivers will eventually work for a carrier that goes under during their career.

Imagine that as a janitor your hours are set by a kid with no experience,he can call you pretty much at any hour and tell you how your day will unfold. If anything goes wrong it will only add to the amount of time you must spend at work without being paid extra for it,also there will be no "overtime" paid, ever.
There will also be a regulatory body that can come in and inspect the equipment you work on whenever they wish,they can give you a fine for the floor polisher/vacuum not working properly,burnt out lights would also carry a fine. They can also fine you for working past 70 hrs a week,regardless of how long you waited for that kid in the office to tell you what needs to be done.
You might want to cut out at 5pm but unfortunately you still have hours that can be worked,so you have to stick around until you are "out of hours" and absolutely have to go "off duty". It's o.k though because now you can go find your bed in the back room beside the plungers and cleaners and get some sleep before that kid in the office calls you again wondering why you didn't get the windows in the library cleaned when that wasn't even on the "to do" list. Instead of teachers having respect for you,they openly ridicule you and threaten to report you to the school board because you failed to deliver the classrooms papertowels for the day on time.


How long would you stay working as a janitor in the above conditions?

Pretty much the same as trucking but without the pension or stability.

 

Or, more likely, I believe in doing something you love, vs doing something because it's "safe". And no, I'm not into MLM of any kind. I'm not a people person.

 

I love driving trucks, what I don't want anymore is OTR. I'm tired of being on the road and missing out on life. I want to drive and do my job and get home in the evening. I want to go fishing, ride my Harley, camp, and the list goes on. All of this stuff I could never really do because I was hardly ever home. I quit my OTR job in Jan and have been looking for the kind of trucking job that works for me. I think I may have found it, and have an Interview on Tuesday. Home every day and this kind of job is hard to find where I live.

When I think of getting into a truck knowing I can't get out again for 2 or 3 weeks, it makes me sick. I now see it as doing time. And to think at one time I loved it. But I'm older now.

Look for the right trucking job for you and all will be fine. Don't panic and grab the first thing that comes along. Keep looking.

I hope to God this one works out, there's nothing here, only OTR.

 

My son is 2 months into his OTR experience and loving it.I'm sure that will change when he's no longer single;hopefully by the time he's ready to get hitched,the economy will have rebounded and he will be able to snag that elusive local job.But for a young single guy OTR is a great experience,I think when he finally gets some home time he will come home with a much healthier perspective on what things really matter in life,I can hear his attitude when he calls,he seems like he's gained a level of maturity,that he didn't have a few short months ago.

 

Success is not how much you make or how much security you have. Success is doing what you love to do and enjoying your life. Challenges only enhance the experience. I know. I'm disabled too. I can't operate heavy equipment anymore or drive but I do anyway. Why? I love it.