Somebody give me the real deal.

I agree with everything in the post above except this bit. You hear this all the time from drivers. Don't bother looking for more local work until you get a few years yada yada yada. It kind of a misleading statement.

A more accurate statement would be to say that there is absolutely no reason why one shouldn't look for local work right away (if that's what they want to do). No reason why you shouldn't look. But at the same time, you shouldn't expect to be able to get local work until you get some experience. There are rare exceptions though so there is no reason not to look because you never know. I went right to local work out of school and I'm not alone in that so it can be done sometimes in some locations. Just understand that the chances of getting local work with no experience are very slim. Not always impossible, but very very slim. It never hurts to look.

 

Also, it depends on the area. Where I reside in a highly populated area, there are many local driving gigs available. They don't pay what a driver will make over the road but most local positions don't (for beginners).

 

Looking for local work is just fine to do but do not spend $6000 on trucking school and plan to just drive local. If it doesn't happen you won't be "up the creek"! Make sure that over the road is going to be ok with you if getting a local gig doesn't pan out.

 

It is like saying it is not cigarettes that kill you it is smoke that causes lung cancer. And fast food is certainly not cheap.

 

The fast food I buy is. Dollar menu baby!!

 

If your dispatcher is calling you lazy and you are hurting his paychack you need too report him, he has no right to talk to you like that. I have been in the trucking industry for 14 years and never been called lazy or that i was hurting his pay chack. dispatchers like this do not need to be in the industry.

 

trucking is one of the most disrespected jobs in the US, the law is always watching for you too make the least bit of a mistake, cars cut you off, the federal government has thier hands in everything you do truckstops overcharge for everything and there is never enough parking.

 

here here couldnt of said it better myself

 

Fast food is loaded with calories from refined sugar and fats (especially, the artery-clogging saturated and hydrogenated fats, which are repeatedly reheated to high temperatures for frying purposes).
It is also very high in sodium, coming from common salt and other additives. On top of all this, fast food is deficient in dietary fiber and essential micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals.

To make matters worse, heaps of fast food are normally guzzled down with gallons of sugar-rich colas which many fast-food restaurants serve free with food as an incentive.
To make a long story short, all this results in piling up of unused empty calories in the body, which get stored as body fat "" till one day you look in the mirror and realize that your great figure has been replaced by this creature in the mirror.

But that's not the end of the story, it's just the beginning. Consuming too much fast food not only turns a handsome guy into an unsightly obese man, but as Eric Schlosser points out in his book it is a big health hazard too.

And being physically inactive only adds to the problem of obesity. Not many people who love fast food are ready to acknowledge that obesity is not simply an eyesore. It is a major risk factor for a large number of deadly diseases like hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, and even many types of cancers.

Recent scientific studies have shown that high-calorie foods rich in fats, refined sugar and salt could reconfigure the hormones in the body in such a way that they make you crave for such foods and always leave you asking for more.

In other words, fast food is kind of addictive; you get hooked on to it and continue consuming it in an uncontrolled way in spite of knowing that it is unhealthy. The more you consume, the more difficult it is for you to opt for healthy foods.

The situation is worse in case of children who from a very young age get hooked on fast food. Making them change their food habits from fatty and sweet foods and develop a taste for health-promoting fruits and vegetables is a task easier said than done. Such children would grow up to be obese adults who have never felt the advantages of being a healthy weight.

To sum up, consuming fast food on a regular basis leads to many health hazards. But bringing about changes in eating habits is not easy.
So if you think Dollar menu is relatively cheap, heart surgery and treating diabetes are not. And if you've just stuffed yourself with *** it does not mean you have eaten

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Oh well. Can somebody pass me the Large Fries and the orange soda