Local route boredom?

A professional driver, in my opinion, should have a boring side to his daily routine and demeanor. The moment you begin to look for excitement on the highway you might get more than you ask for. Lately I just chug in the granny lane, this winter had already claimed a few cdls of cowboys.

 

Ever pulled local on the same route every day?
Get's tedious after a while. Does a body good, change.

 

I'm bored out of my mind I do the same thing everyday but on the plus side I have very little stress.

 

Yes I have been there and done that for years on end, just put on your big boy pants and get it done, it's a living.

 

Im way too busy most days to be bored doing p/d. Anyway i love the predictability of my days

 

My route is the same but the traffic and weather are always changing. I don't find local driving boring at all, and an uneventful day in the truck is a good day in the truck.

 

I was bored out of my mind during the summer time.... Then it started snowing ...ALOT. When you are dealing with ice covered roads, blizzard so thick you can't even see past your hood, or sit halfway up a 6% mountain pass spun out dodging snowplows while trying to chain up; all those things will make for a very interesting night.

I agree with Oi!, not complaining too much. Get paid plenty and I am home everyday/weekends.

 

I have the easiest job in the world. Only weather I deal with is rain and fog LOL

A simple drop and hook a couple of hours away, come back and then work the dock.

I'm thinking of buying one of those Honda robots with a printout of my face on it so it can go to work for me, it doesn't take much to do it.

Only problem with my job is the horrible schedule. But other than that it's easy.

 

If you get with a local P&D outfit, you would probably not have a regular route for a while. I got on with Reddaway 7 months ago and do what they call wildcatting, fill in on any route. If you work out of a fairly large city, it will be quite some time before you get familiar with all the customers. We have about 70 drivers, most have regular routes, but it can take years before you get a regular route.

I've done a variety of trucking over the years; over-the road, car hauling, gas tanker... I like this the best. There is zero boredom. The hours, days, they fly by. Always punching a new address into the gps, arriving in minutes, then sizing up the place figuring how to maneuver the truck in limited space to get to the dock. And physically getting in and out of the truck so much, and occasionally doing the lift-gate pallet jack thing, it's not a job for the people who prefer to be flabby and out of shape.

And many P&D jobs have you work the dock a bit when you're new. I'd never operated a forklift before, but the skills are easy to pick up being a driver and all. I've enjoyed the dock, the comradery of the guys, the quick pace. It's a nice change after driving for so many years.

Most driving jobs, there's not much to learn, it's mostly staying disciplined, staying mentally focused so you don't make mistakes. With big truck city pick up and delivery, there is so much to learn, I still feel quite green after my first 7 months. There's so many details to this because the freight is so varied and the big corporation/union has so many long established procedures to discover.

I wish I would have found this end of trucking years ago. It's the first trucking job where I'm working with many drivers who've all been there for decades. Can't say that about most trucking jobs. There's got to be reasons why these jobs have such low employee turnover.

 

My local yocals consist of mostly the same people as my former employer. Difference is I'm wearing a different uniform. Never boring, Around my area everyone knows each other. "Trucking" is a small world around here. Let's say I do 10 pickups. probably 6 people i know or their relative. Hard to not BS on the job kill a few minutes.


Never boring.


Clarification. Please don't quote me. My city has about 300k to 1.2 m people in the METRO area. never cared to follow up years later.
It's small and the numbers means crap. It's a small world ( to me )