Do the nerves ever go away?

Squawk 7500, over

 

You know what I do? Throw the opposite blinker on, watch the aboriginal spacecraft hit the afterburners to go the way of the blinking light like a velcro-headed moth, then swap blinkers and change lanes to the other side as originally planned, unhindered. It's f o q i n hilarious.

 

I left Dohrn, got fed up with all the nonsense. The last straw was when they took away my run and basically cut my pay by 30% and essentially turned me into a yard jockey. I’m with another LTL company now anxiously awaiting a linehaul run, doing an hourly city shuttle run for the time being.

 

Best thing I did was to try tanker. Started out with chemical hazmat smoothbore tankers. Did that for a year and went back to flatbed. It made me a better truck driver in all aspects. Once that stress and pressure and feeling of smoothbore gets through you, it really never leaves you, and you will enjoy it more. If I go back to tanker I'm going as an O/O and back to chemical.

 

any nervousness goes away with time. The amount of time varies. However, itll be gone within 6 months being solo

 

You forgot the Bronx hahaha.

I alternate with my partner driving a Vactor in the borough and the Uber/dollar cabs are the worst. Just pull u turns in front of you for no reason to pick someone up or head in another direction. Also equally bad with double parking to talk to someone when they could pull up 3 spots and pull in front of the hydrant for 5 minutes.

I gotta give them a dose of airhorn, get them to look at me for two seconds, and they stare, then go back to talking. No respect. But when their power goes out they beg us to work faster.

 

Little bit of nerves is a good thing, it's the guy who's not a little nervous who will screw up worse, that was always the philosophy of a shop teacher I had, he was mostly talking kids cutting their fingers off in the table saw though.

 

Yeah, all of NYC region is pretty... exciting.

Last Easter, my wife and I parked the truck in Trenton and took the train in to Manhattan for the weekend. We grabbed one of those Ubers... ONE. This guy was doing like 60mph down a single-lane city street with cars parked bumper to bumper on both sides. There was less than 3ft. of clearance on each side!

We were thinking, "Oh my God. If anyone steps out from between one of those cars, we'll all be dead."

The old faithful Yellow Cab Co. got the rest of our business that weekend.

 

Oh, so the Uber driver drives like my grandpa. Nice