How was 2019 for you?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by 6wheeler, Jan 3, 2020.

How was 2019 for you?

  1. Better than the year before

    8 vote(s)
    22.2%
  2. About the same.

    6 vote(s)
    16.7%
  3. Worse than the year before.

    22 vote(s)
    61.1%
  4. I don't know yet.

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. Midwest Trucker

    Midwest Trucker Road Train Member

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    Well ####. All you can do is separate yourself and start over. I had to do similar in 2012 because my brother was a ####ing piece of #### but what you gonna do. Keep your head up and move forward.

    No joke I hadn't spoke to my brother from 2012 until literally Christmas of 2019. Sad the way things work out.
     
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  3. Ridlingdj

    Ridlingdj Medium Load Member

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    That's what I have been working on trying to figure out my next step but I cant do much with my equipment until after they say what I can touch with it being the fbi and I'm sorry you had a similar situation it ant easy
     
  4. asphaltreptile311

    asphaltreptile311 Road Train Member

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    I got to kiss a girl for the first time , this year I'll be 41
     
  5. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    Not sure if i should laugh or cry lol
     
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  6. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    I don't either. We were working on kissies back in 12 years old give or take a little. No manual needed and certainly no teachers around except one particular 16 year old who took a moment to be sure we did it right.

    And thats all there is, anything else just follows along with that.

    Best pucker up, because in this industry you get the kissoff quite often. //SATIRE.

    2019 was not a BAD year, just stormy. 2020 is essentially a war footing already with the g-d swine flu that knocked me on my ###. Im over it now. Just piles of good home cooking stuffed in my fridge to chow down on. I havent been to the store yet this year for crying out loud.

    I know I need to be very very very careful in 2020, I started the year with a black cloud mindset thats not a good start. It needs sunshine and joy. And aint found it yet. So I am working on that sunshine and joy.

    As the years fly by too dang fast, I consider that in time if you have good people around you, few as they are you will be fine. Something for you to do to take care of them too. There are people in this area who have nothing. And they rather die a thousand deaths than to ask for a bottled water thats overflowing your pantry shelf by the case. What they don't know is if they would just stop being prideful and ask straight up, they will have a thousand bottles of water.
     
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  7. murat

    murat Light Load Member

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    I was disappointed in the rates,was anticipating because of the ELDs higher rates but I guess that all went to the brokers.I normally rent a van during the slow down months from the shipper I work with but did not do it in 2018.
     
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  8. shatteredsquare

    shatteredsquare Road Train Member

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    Good point there...did 2019 really suck, as maybe compared to 2016, or was 2018 just the gravy train of love-bombing from your new rich nymphomaniac BPD girlfriend...with 2019 bringing you into intimate familiarity with her less immediately obvious characteristics?
     
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