3 yrs exp, but left trucking 4 yrs ago making $120K+, where do I pick up?

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  1. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    One trainer and two students all living in one CR England fleased Shaker!?!

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  3. Blackshack46

    Blackshack46 Road Train Member

    Here we go with the two students at a time again. Oh boy.
     
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  4. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    well after being tortured and getting terrible sleep if any at all.........

    at least they have to look forward to

     
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    Step off please, and thank you!
     
  6. freightwipper

    freightwipper Road Train Member

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    Just trying to figure something out here with your "averaged" 6700 mile weeks.
    That's 957 miles a day.

    Say the truck averages 55 MPH that = roughly the truck DRIVING 17 1/2 hours per day. Plus fuel stops, pretrips, restroom/food breaks, time at customers etc etc.
    Two drivers pretrips = 30 minutes min, say one fuel stop that's 15 min, two 30 min breaks for two drivers
    We're up to an extra 1.5 hours there soo say there's no extra stops and you add ONLY an hour a day for a shipper or receiver and we're at 20 hour days of working!


    Just wondering how you managed sleeping while sitting next to and training for those 18-22 hours a day the truck must have been in work?
     
  7. Pacific Islander

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    How did I manage sleep you ask? By getting very little. I learned to operate on a few hours of sleep here and there. Never said it was easy.
     
  8. freightwipper

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    man I got exhausted just thinking about all that.

    Well you are a hard worker, kudos for that!
    Cr England must have loved you and you deserved all the money you made.
     
  9. Pacific Islander

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    Oh, and lots of coffee. Just another reason I don't want to be a trainer again. I started CRE weighing 225lbs, 3 years later when I quit I weight 350lbs. I use to look like the rock when I started, by the end, I looked like Yokozuna.
     
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  10. HorseShoe

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    You are comedy gold
     
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    I'm just hung up on the I'm buff comment, kinda gay
     
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