Quitting While on the Road

Who was telling you it was all fun and games out on the road?

While I read through your entire post, this opening statement absolutely floored me. Trucking ain't fun and games. It's work.

When you failed to check in for a couple of days and thought it was okay to fall behind schedule by a day, does that mean you blew off a day of driving in order to have a little fun? Look, driving a truck means you get to work all day without someone looking over your shoulder and micromanaging your day. You are on your own. This DOESN'T mean you get to screw off. The customers that have tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of product on your rig are usually anxious to have it delivered on time.

The fact that you thought it was okay to fall behind schedule, based on a conversation with your dispatcher, possibly means you decided to slack off or take a day off of driving. When I'm under load I'm DRIVING and trying to make delivery as EARLY as possible. If you don't get miles in TODAY, you don't get to make them up tomorrow. You get paid by the mile, so slacking off while under load is inexcusable.

So many times I hear new drivers whining about small paychecks, but then in the next breath I hear stories like this coming out of their mouth and it all adds up. You want big paychecks? Then WORK.

 

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Really? You were hauling loads with no delivery specifications... Monday... Friday... just deliver whenever you feel like it...?

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The difference of a few days cpm vs min wage is probably minor considering by your own admission, you weren't a very good employee.

 

You can't say that you "slept in" and in the same breath, twice albeit, say you're not slacking off.

Heavy haul of all forms of trucking gives you the most free time. You can only run sunrise to sunset. During the winter, that's like 9 hours or less. You have 15 hours to do with as you want and you decide to "sleep in". You're lucky they paid you anything. They should've left you in Baltimore finding your own way home.

 

Man I wish I could choose to sleep in. When my 10 is up I'm on the road! That is the business! I'll give you credit though.....at least you know you're not cut out for this type of work. If you want to drive I suggest getting a job delivering flowers. Banker hours right there!

 

I was going to say the same thing. The only time I'm sitting at 9am is when I didn't stop till midnight!

 

Really not winning we have 10 trucks now all of which are leased out to different companies, I drive my own truck, we have hired drivers that drive the others. I decide when I want to take time off and where. Own a house on a 40 acre lot with a 2 bays shop, have a cottage at the lake the hubby has all the boy toys a guy can get. Yep we are being taken advantage of, we are not winning at all. Enjoy your barkeep duties dont know how well that pays for non night owls. Kids now a days I swear they think they should be able to tour through life without having to work for anything.