Worst thing about trucking?

I'm not experienced yet, only 7,000 miles so far, but for me it has to be "the other guy" far to many people in cars appear to have minimal driving skills.

 

Trying to hold a family together is hard. This is coming from a wife of a trucker who loves his job and he wouldn't want to do anything else. I love the fact that he's happy driving, but when you are going through things "together" and ones not here, it's kind of hard.

 

you're big, long & heavy dealing with zipping little cars all around you!

will see the real American public with all the rude drivers out there!

looking for parking, even to use the restroom is a big problem most of the time!

living in truck stops using public bathrooms is not much fun!

rude customers (shippers, consignees) are prevalent.

bad docking locations will put you at backing accident risks!

driving in all kinds of bad weather

driving at night in strange locations with bad directions!

...and I could go on---trucking is NOT for the 'faint of heart!'

 

What I disliked about the OTR realm was the erratic pay (really low one week pretty decent some other weeks and the fact that the companies were less than enthusiastic about the home time.

 

Do you get extra pay for residential deliveries? We drop-ship (ship directly from the manufacturer) some of the bigger and heavier merchandise we sell, and some trucking companies charge extra for residential delivery. I guess it's silly of me to think that that extra gets passed on to the driver...?

 

Everything Mr. Provacative said. Especially docks, some of these docks are freaking crazy. God I hate docks. Why I'm I a trucker?

 

The worst thing about trucking, that is easy.

It is all the self serving public interest groups out there constantly pushing for laws to make our job harder.