Avoiding Night Hauling....?

SHEESH, WHAT A WHINER!
It is a really good idea to learn how to cook. Someday, you may find yourself, (for whatever reason,) batching. Living off frozen TV dinners gets old, quick! Eating out ALL the time is WAY too expensive.
If you cook it, then you can get it exactly the way you want it! Oh yeah one more thing.....Once you have cooked a steak past medium rare, you might as well feed it to the dog, and start over!
If I order a steak in a restaurant, I order medium rare. If it is overdone, it is refused, and they can cook me another one. And I'll keep doing it, until the cook gets his head out of his rectum and cooks it the way it was ordered.

We had what was supposed to be a pretty fancy steak house down in town for a few years. But they just couldn't cook a steak that wasn't medium, medium well, or well done,(aka burned to a freaking crisp.) They only lasted a couple of years or so....

 

I cannot begin to tell you about the steak and eggs in the morning with cheese etc, steak and salad for lunch and then steak and chicken combo for dinner. That kind of fuel.. er food makes for a massive ability to work. I depended on that for years to keep strong throwing boxes into the truck and then back out of it. Worse case scenario onto small wood to boot.

What I was doing was taking decades off my chassis inside the body in a number of progressive ways as the body lost it's ability to regenerate in a proper sleep if there was any long enough to regen in. If I had a choice to live over again, I'll pick trucking. IF I wanted to hear whining I'll sit with a freind who was micromanaged all day in a call center or something and now not able to slow down and go to bed becuase there will have to be some more in the morning. It got to where the friend would display mental illness in a variety of interesting ways forcing himself to go stick his head into the oven so to speak (The work place..)

Me? Not a problem. 3 feet powder due in 7 hours at Big Sandy and two foot wet expected in Cumberland in half that time. PA Pike just closed to a feroucious storm. This load will be in Kentucky by morning. Just need to find my coffee and steaks. Let's go.

He asked how much you making doing that? er about 170 dollars gross delivered. 30% to taxes call it 100 dollars for overnight. If loaded back here, it's going to be twice that by evening day two in Baltimore. Then the friend looks at his pathetic minimun wage of 3.65 adds up the hours (About 24 hours total for 1400 miles driving round trip) and came up with a gross of 91.00 This was a long time ago.

It's not local work where you can deliver 5 bulk cement loads per day at 350 to 460 gross dollars per day. That was where the real money was in those days. Poor minimum wage worker eyes pop like saucers as he mentally flooded with kaching and asked what do I have to do to get a Class A?

Now everyone wants to pay anyone 15,00 a hour. I think trucking has shoe on other foot and is bleeding drivers trapped in a cycle of 70 hour work week unable to gross even what a mimimum wage worker would gross after working 70 hours.

 

Most freight you haul will have a delivery scheduled time and date all the company you work for is interested in is that you make the delivery on time how you choose to drive there is your responsibility. I found if you got loaded late then you may have to do some night driving to make up time, and you drive till you feel tired then take a break at a truck stop or designated rest stop. If night driving is not suitable for you perhaps OTR is not really the way to go.

 

Unless you work for one of these outfits that micromanage their drivers. In which case they will tell you when to drive, as well as the routes to take. And you can bet you will be told to drive at night, a lot of the time.

 

Speaking of which....
I was driving today (North on 93 just north of Concord, New Hampshire).
I was doing a steady 65. Just happened to notice that the car next to me on my left (fast lane) was keeping steady with me for a rather lengthy time.
I looked down at the driver and, lo and behold, it was some dude with no pants, and he was... uh.... pleasuring himself quite furiously. I mean, he was really workin' it. He was looking at me to make sure that I saw him.

Funny thing too; New Hampshire has strict no texting while driving laws.

 

Personally, I ran 48 state for about five years until I went dedicated, I can count on one hand how many times I had to drive through the night. Many times you are running a little before dawn I think don't count that. That being said, my dedicated run has m running through the night all week and I enjoy it. No traffic, quiet, no lines at truckstops etc

 

I run flatbed. Ya the deliveries are daytime but if you run on recap like me and are out of hours, you then are expected to get up and get driving at 12:01am, when your new hours roll over. That's how you get the load there by 7am the next day. In fact I have been running recap for 4 weeks no break. It doesn't matter if you would like a break. Tonight I have to drive at 12:01am again. You cannot refuse a load because then you get on a secret blacklist and get the crap loads. Im a little frustrated by this very topic. I hate nights.