If given the chance would you...

Yes, yes it does!

 

I lost about four years of my kids life. It is painful.

 

Just another one saying take the new job...

 

You have to do what is best for you and your family. I consider myself lucky in so far as I get to drive a truck Monday-Friday and I am home every afternoon. My pay for 2019 will either be in the high 80's or low 90's. I will know for sure tomorrow when I see my last paycheck on line. And I'm a company driver not an O/O.

 

I took a paycut to go otr from a 9-5 office job. I was tired of staring at a computer all day. Run a regional route now, so home on the weekends. It's a nice middle ground for me.

But it ain't like trucking is going anywhere, so I would give it a shot and see if you like it.

 

Last I checked new CDL's are just too expensive.

 

I had a county library job in Frederick, from the Vocational State side of the school. Pull 54 new books from dumbwaiter. Break out the labels and stickers. Enter each book purchased into library, county computer database. Add barcodes to books, Add pockets tot hem Add coveres to some. Rubber stamp all. Hither thither and yon.

It was not a bad job for the first 3.35 minimum wage 5 hour daily 5 days a week in my senior year with three days of schooling eliminated. I had tested out to 12.1 grade level and met math minimums therefore there was nothing in terms of class to take except two. A bit of history in one and researching in another which was something that was rubber banded together to pass for a course. It did not really matter at that point at 20 I was aging out with a diploma anyhow.

The money was really good in those days I think .95 gasoline to start off.

 

Im pretty sure I can belly up to that man's Counter space,slosh some coffee, light a smoke and start carrying on about the stupid shipper in this phone and the demanding wife in the other phone.

I can probably locate some old time truckstop images that would really put the nostalgia on the person be it him or her.

Longdranger, you will find people like Reo to be esteemed and treasured for what they have managed to retain all these years long before any of us were alive.