Swift - Starting the New Year training with Swift 1/7/13 - A long read...

Thanks Jmod, I appreciate the encouragement.
I hope you are out and doing this crazy trucking thing we do. Sounds like we have similar backgrounds and it's great to hear about someone turning their life around.

Where are you at with the trucking thing now? Last thing you wrote was that you were speaking with a recruiter...

 

Haha....there can and will be more of that to come!

 

Wow, it's been a long time since I've been on here. Not only this thread but on this forum or even on the computer. Although we had wifi in the motel we were living in (more on that later) I haven't really had the time to get online between work and my girl.

Things are awesome with Lauren. We're not only hanging in there but we're thriving despite the odds.

To backtrack a little...

Early January I moved myself up to Jersey to relocate. Virginia wasn't really working out with that OTR Regional Dedicated position. Nothing like having a job but not having any work. Screw that.

I didn't have a place or the funds to acquire a new apartment up here in Jersey. I was offered the day cab job of delivering bread but had no where to stay. The problem with getting into an actual apartment was compounded by the fact that 1) My credit kind of stinks. Mostly since my divorce. 2) I have no recent rental history since starting to drive for Swift OTR. The last time I had a rental was way before I even started trucking. 3) I didn't have any local NJ paychecks behind me and the last paychecks I had from Epes were terrible and nearly $0. So I couldn't get a real apartment.

I found a weekly rental at a little roadside motel on the Route 35 circle in Manasquan, NJ. That was the best I could do. Not a bad place, not really any shady characters although the place had generated some interesting stories while we stayed there for the two months. Yes two adults in a small motel room for two months.

So finally we are out. We found an unbelievably great apartment in Eatontown, NJ. For those unfamiliar with the Garden State it is basically north, central NJ about an hour or less drive from NYC. So I'm finally in a real place for the first time in years and it feels great.

It feels "normal", whatever that may be. I still miss OTR at times for many reasons but I have to admit that I really love this new thing as well. I'm home every night, I make more money, I have someone to come home to and see every night and wake up next to every morning, I have a vehicle, an apartment and I have days off. Again, not always what is perfect for one person is perfect for another but this is working just fine for me right now.

To be continued...

 

Miss you guys too!

What is this new black beauty in the garage??? I'm very curious. Good to hear he got some time off but under crappy circumstances.