Former driver comments

Everything you say is true, different strokes for different folks. I can easily understand why you would feel the way you do. I love trucking, I like being on my own. I don't particularly want a nine to five job, go home every night to the same thing. It gets old. At least with this job you never take home for granted.

 

Well said.....

 

Man I'm with you 100 percent. Well put Grandiego

 

Driving is not meant to appeal to everybody. A large part of the ridiculous turnover carriers suffer is that recruiters try to take a niche career and sell it to the general population. Then when people find out the reality of the job's demands, they go back to whatever it is that fits their life.

Though for those of us that do fit that niche, there's nothing like driving, and to see somebody talking it down simply because of their own negative experience due to not fitting the niche is disrespectful of the profession as a whole, though I am aware that was not the intent.

Long story shorter... driving isn't for everybody, but that's not the profession's fault. If you want to blame somebody, blame the carriers that try to sell the profession to the general public en masse.

 

This has been a cordial and well worded thread.

 

What the heck is wrong with us? Isn't it TTR policy that all threads must either veer away from the first post or denigrate into name calling or petty bickering by the end of the second page?

 

Only if moos shows up

 

Hahahahaha......

 

biggest thing running in here right now is respect. Many disagree with OP and he accepts that. There have been no personal attacks and some of the usual type suspects are quiet or attacking elsewhere.

Refreshing really.