Anybody feel like this?

Go home....McDonalds is hiring.

 

I must agree. Go home trucking is not for you and if it is that boring to you , your going to kill someone. Get off the road and get something that you will enjoy

sorry to be so harsh but it is the truth

 

Not me, but I'm sure many do, hence the new driver turnover rate. Interesting you only thought of it as driving around listening to music.

 

In my opinion the OTR driver has two major obstacles (aside from FMs and planners):

Boredom and discomfort.

For boredom I listen to audibooks.

I used to come home every 4 weeks and go to the library with a dufflebag. My library has no limit on how many books you can check out so I'd often take out 20-25 at a shot. Mysteries, suspense, biographies, documentaries, self-help, comedies. All kinds of audiobooks that would grab my attention and keep me interested. I found this made the time and miles fly by. And believe it or not sometimes you can even learn a thing or two along the way.

Another thing to consider is I-heart radio. If you have a smartphone you can use the I-heart radio app to listen to 100s of talk, sports, news as well as syndicated programs. You then plug your phone into the audio in port of your trucks' stereo. If your truck has a tape player you can use an adapter for that. Either way you have other options than simply listening to music all day.

 

Sirius Cures the boredom, Nascar, Howard, NFL, Comedy, Music, News....
But I agree is you are already bored, quit before you kill someone...

 

SOB glad you guy's weren't the first explorers, or engineers, scientists.........
You'd be living in a cave trying to figure out what to do when cold.

The guy said he had gotten bored while driving. Your blather is misguided and unwarranted.Jeez he didn't tear anything up and because he is bored you predict him causing a fatality.


To the OP;

Yeah it is a job. No with any luck it will not always be exciting. There are other things to do to break the boredom. As mentioned Sirius/Xm or audio books can help. Stopping every couple hours and get your blood flowing with walk, light exercise, or just whack yourself with a wet noodle.

Maybe this gig is for you or not, but if your doing a decent job, and making decent money boredom can be addressed without bailing on your career.

 

Whatever you do don't watch tv, read magazines, do the daily crossword or fall asleep from boredom while driving.

 

Trucking is either in the blood or it isn't.
Obviously this guy doesn't like it. Time to look for another job.
Nothing harsh about that. No hard feelings.... Sometimes things don't pan out..

I'm always saying that for every 100 people that start in trucking, at the 1 year mark 97 of them are GONE!
...yet people come on here and say "Oh that won't happen to me..it will be different"...and gee..1yr later - POOF GONE...no more posts on TTR.
Your only in this 2 months or so now and things aren't looking up...that's not good.

My other thought....
People simply need to stop looking at trucking as a 'last resort'.
People that do, eventually quit and are usually in much more debt than before they started.

 

I could not agree with you more.

I look at trucking as though there are 2 sides to it, on one side you have the people who are here because they love it, they are good at it, they enjoy the lifestyle, and these are the folks who come here and they are or become the experienced professionals.

On the other side you have people who are hard up, people who can not do anything else, and they jump into this corporate manufactured game played by some of the larger companies that will put anyone in a truck and run them until they are no longer willing, and they will have the next guy waiting in line behind them to take the truck over when that guy throws in the towel or loses his behind.