Are you sorry you are trucking?

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I've got over 2 million miles experience driving coast to coast and 48 states, safety awards, good references, winter mountain experience, all types of equipment, blah blah blah, etc. I have been out of the trucking for only 2 years and I finally landed something...driving a single axle day cab locally. I remember when I was out there "big riggin", I'd look at those trucks and say I'd NEVER drive a truck like that..SURPRIZE...Now I'm going to.

Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and do whatchya gotta do. It's just a matter of getting on the road and doing what you like to do too - Drive a truck. To some of us, it's the job we love.

Something an old timer taught me years ago- When you get your dispatch don't look at the mileage pay or tarp pay or unload pay, etc. Example: I get dispatched on 1000 mile run and I make .30 cents a mile. The load will pay me $300 dollars. That's it....YOU were payed $300 to get a load from point A to point B. Don't study your miles, your route, your whatever. $300 bucks is what your gonna make. Sometimes the run is a great run and sometimes it's not. It's what you do for a living. If you constantly keep looking at variations (miles not exact, had X days to run it, X hours to load/unload) in the run, you can gripe about a lot of "unfairness". Sure, you should get some tarp pay and unload pay, but I think you'll know what I mean if you think about it.

Much has changed in the trucking industry, both good and bad, but for the most part, you get paid to get a load from A to B. We truckers will argue, whine and bit*h at anything if you give us a chance, everyone does. But the bottom line is you get paid to move freight.

Sorry this post was so long...Someone will probably gripe about it. Cya..

 

Yeah, the WS recruiter Roxy called me yesterday to answer some questions and we got on that subject. I mentioned that the basic tenet of a job is how much aggravation for how much at the end of the month. Money isn't always the top ideal.
I like how you mentioned that there is good and bad in every job; not to dwell on the details.

 

Im just gettin into truckin, was a fire truck mechanic for ten years, i saw the same building and roads every day, now i get paid to see my wonderful country. Cant beat it.

 

I've been doing this a long time and still love it.I have decent bosses,great pay and bennies. I could have retired 3 yrs ago,but I'm too young to do nothing or to drive the wife insane. I recently got a new Columbia with a 6sp Allison Auto and it's really fun to drive.Had more than my share of shifting.
I do dedicated runs and although I have to load and unload myself,I'm there by myself so nobody bothers me.
I'm my own boss once I leave that loading dock

 

Nope I love what I am currently doing, and am not sorry at all.

 

Like many users, I used to go back and forth on whether I liked my job and why I got into trucking in the first place, until I realized something:

I love the trucks ...but I bloody well loathe the trucking industry.

It's the trucks that pulled me in when I was a child, but it's the employers, enforcement agencies, and, worst of all, the customers that will probably drive me out. The hardest part is realizing that the truck, as pretty as it may be, is still nonetheless a tool that must be put to work to justify its expense.

 

That pretty much sums it all up, in a nutshell.

Sad part though. If it weren't for all these complete ###wipes. We'd be driving nothing more than a glorified RV.

 

sorry? Heck no! As someone said in another thread, my worst day truckin is better than the best day doin any other job out there!

After 13 years drivin for a living (almost 10 in a big truck) I still have days that I can't believe I actually get paid for this.



For those of ya who don't love this career/lifestyle or regret not doing something different... go find that job you're passionate about! Do something you love doing! Lifes too darn short doing something you hate everyday.

as the old saying goes: Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life.