Very happy with LTL work!

Gotcha, I'm a lot younger than you so for me I don't mind the extra work. I wasn't even born in 78 lol.... Sounds like your days of driving should be ending in retirement soon right?

 

53 last august, yeah I have a few good years left...but don't want to do a p/d gig that isn't a cushy one. I'd rather be a night owl and put up with the weather....least my back won't bother me and I can just about forget about making a dispatcher look good.

 

What is it then after 40 or 45?

 

That's sucks... I get OT so for me he can sit there everyday, I wouldn't mind going out of route.

 

No it doesn't take 30 years, If that's what I inferred , I apologize, I tried to intercede the knowledge acquired over the same 30 years, and recognizing a wrong is being done.

 

The sad thing is, that if you are a good, dependable, conscientious driver, they will dump on you every time. Because "everybody knows that good old rocket237 will get 'er done!" It does get old after a while.

Yeah, we didn't either. Gotta love those labor laws that make truckers out to be less than human. . .

 

As for the o/t . It's a Farmers ,labor law......all the employer has to prove is if the truck "supposedly a farm truck" crosses a state line o/t need not be offered. Once a trucking company got wind of this loophole, (and it is a loophole) The government turned it's back on the commercial driver. Instead of righting a wrong, they keep there mouth's shut and prolly collect some lobby money to not do/say anything. Fair days wage for a fair days work.....Says it right in my contract book.........'bout all it says ,lol.