How do you keep going on?

The way the economy is now and will continue to be, forever, trucking gives you the opportunity to work long hours and make more money than the average jackoff who works 20 hours a week part time. Like the crazy old priest at a church I attended, "Be glad you have a job to pay the tithe". Pretty crappy, but that's the way it is.

Life is basically a pile of crap for most people and it's only worth living for a few of the things that YOU perceive as worthwhile. When you no longer get ANY satisfaction, well, I don't know what to tell you. Oh and here's the real kick in the balls, "If you don't want the job, there are lines of others wanting to give it a try".

 

Stay with it long enough until any major bills are paid off. Then get a cheap motorcycle, a compact tent, and live off of odd jobs any time some quick money is needed.
"An income" is needed when one wants to have a "higher" quality of life, or they messed around and now have kids and a significant other that doesn't want to work.

 

The doesn't work problem is about 96 million so far out of 330 millions plus total. We will require a proper war against another large nation state to either put them to work or send them to war. And to be honest, we aint got the industrial base anymore to get it done.

 

Write a rebuttal to hireright or DAC, that should go into your record. And there is the rub.

There are also anti corection laws in place since about 2013 or so now, laws we did not have protections prior to that.

 

You havent been there yet. In other words, you havent lived yet. LOL.

 

BIG $$$$$$$$$

 

I will be bold enough to say that there is a conflict, on a continuous basis, between a companies safety dept. and operations/dispatch. Your DM's bonus correlates directly with how many miles/loads you do, among many other variables as well. Safety will always tell you to get everything in writing if you think it's that unsafe. Attend any orientation and when the safety people talk to you it's the feeling that there are a hundred ways to get fired and get a bad mark on your DAC. It's true. U turns=dismissal. Stopping on the road side=dismissal and the list goes on.

They want airline pilot performance at a pittance of the price and it's just not trucking. It's every job these days. Is it any wonder people are just saying, "screw it, I'll find a way to live with less and still have my dignity intact".

Your situation is not at all unique though, but everything in trucking is time management and safety. If you can somehow manage to master those two things, life gets easier on the road.