I need some personal help.

Id just like to add a little to the quoted advice here. In the events of family emergencies, loss of loved ones, the kid baseball games, birthdays, holidays, weddings and other things..... owning your own truck with self dispatch is the only way you can make time for all of those things. You may have to really bust your ##### to get in a comfortable position, buts its worth it.

By the way, what are all the types of trailers do you have experience pulling?????

 

As far as learning or knowing things in trucking, I must say..... age and experience only matter to an extent.
A blood thirsty appetite to learn, listen, search, scavenge, and down right fight for knowedge can take a person farther and faster than age or experience.
At 28 like i said, i grew up in trucking, but i have learned more about the business in the past year and a half than ever. All because i actually wanted it bad enough.

So.... how bad do you want it?

 

Good question Mikey.

 

"The only way i ever had ''BALANCE'' with Life,Love,Family,Sexual Relations,Intamacy and a Personal Life was becoming an O/O...Never did i have a good life as a company driver.

I love being an O/O.I come and go as i please..I have 10 days off as we speak.I may take another 10 off...I am enjoying so much being home and being my own PERSON...

Try it,it may be your answer... "



Yet a week ago it was not the nice picture of being an O/O that he was posting about in http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...owner-operator/227941-money-or-happiness.html

 

This isn't really the profession to be in if you can't bear being alone. I would look harder for a local job. That way you can apply what you have learned, but will be able to be with your family more.

 

If you still want to drive get yourself a local job nd be home everyday with your family that's what i did nd the day i would have to go otr i would start looking a different line of work because im not gonna miss my son nd my wife nd family because i have to be there for them when they need me not 2500 miles away at the ta lol

 

Hey driving isn't for everyone and timing has to be right. If u can't find local job, leave otr alone for now! Quit messing your record up because your going to black ball yourself soon. U can drive garbage truck, school bus, metro bus, coke, Pepsi, etc. You have plenty options for driving. Your son is young and u want to be around, that's cool. Leave road driving alone. Get on a job on a dock to support family if you have to. Otr is not the only job you can do, try it again when kid is older.

 

You need to have a job taking care of your family! Sometimes u have to make sacrifices that is unless u wanna work at mcdonalds. My hubby stayed out 1-2 weeks at a time we have dealt with our son crying for daddy at night! And he's almost 7! But we have a home and a lake property and rental property that will be paid off in 6 years! And then I know a couple with 3 kids he wanted to drive a truck and she got all upset and no no no u can't do that! They live on welfare and sit at home!its not always easy but do u want your son living on the streets or thinking dad don't work so we have to live with relatives.? It's your choice

 

Im my younger days,Being in the Entertainment Bus Lease Business carrying entertainers around the country doing shows it was not uncommon for me to be gone in access of 300 days per year. All the while having a wife and raising small children,My wife and I discussed it and it was decided that by me doing my job and making an above average income that I would work and provide a home and everything they needed and my wife would stay with them as a full time parent.At least they had one of there parents full time and I had a cell phone back when cell phones werent cheap and would call home whenever I felt like it and many months had a $1200.00 to $1500.00 cell bill,but that was all right because I was taking care of my wife and family.They wanted for nothing,nice house to live in,nice vehicles to drive,food to eat,money in the bank.Your success on the road is not left up to only you,it is a team effort between you your wife and your familys.there were times when I was close enough doing shows that the wife and kids could come out and meet me and we could have a little mini vacation,just making the best of it!!!! then there were times the wife could come on the road with me and leave the kids a grandmas house,so the whole family has to be involved. And when I would get to come home it was a big deal,with a party,toys,food,cake and for a few days my undivided attention to my children. It was hard being gone so much,but I had a wife and children to take care of,So I sacrificed my happiness for them,I am not going to lie there were times I wanted to see my wife and kids so bad I would cry,but then I would turn to god and everything would be allright.Because I knew my sacrifice was giving my children something that me working at home would not be able to give them,A home to live in,A nice car to drive for there mother,Food to eat 3 times a day,the things they wanted and needed to survive.and my children grew up happy well balanced children with a good work ethic and children of there own. they knew when they were old enough that the reason daddy was gone so much was for them to have the things they needed,But they were always happy to see me when I got home and we spent quality time together doing what they wanted to do.So its not going to be easy,but with your wife and familys support,it can be done,you just got to get out there and stop feeling sorry for yourself and man up and do your job and everything else will fall in place,good luck to you,I will be praying for you and your famiy!!! Robert BigDog Adams