Belated Introduction - Hi Y'all

Well consider this a belated welcome .

I wish my wife was half as interested in this industry as you appear to be (I still love her anyway).

 

Welcome aboard! My husband is almost as diligent as you are, learning about what it's like to be on the road. The first time he went on the road with me, he was excited and terrified at the same time. After a week in the truck with me, he had enough and was ready to go home. Then he worried about my safety while I was gone. Now he has a better grip on things and has even suggested going O/O. I used to be an O/O long before I met my husband and married him and I'm not to enthusiastic about doing it again unless I see some real positive change in regulations, insurance & freight rates.

 

Yeah, I can see where that could make it difficult. We have 1 small dog (she's attached to my hip...lol) and 2 cats. The dog is almost always with me in the truck and the cats can be left home alone as long as we leave them enough food/water and a clean litter box. My husband will go with me for a week because he misses me, then he remembers why he doesn't like being in the truck and wants to go home, 6 months later he forgot why he doesn't like it and wants to go again, every 6 months, rinse & repeat...lol

 

My company doesn't, that's why I like it ,they are good to me and they accommodate me whenever needed and I have lots of freedom. From my experience, if it's a Mega, they micromanage. If they are a smaller company they usually don't as much, but they usually don't have very good benefits. I try to stick with the middle sized companies. Big enough to provide good benefits, but small enough not to be a Mega micro manager. I drive for Oberg Freight Company currently. They aren't the best paying company out there, (we did just get a pay increase though) but the atmosphere and customers here are worth making a few cents less for a less stressful and friendlier environment, plus they have great medical benefits & good equipment. Most drivers have been here between 5-10 years, some longer, some come on board and leave right away. Every driver is looking for different things in different companies. What might make you happy, might make me miserable, and vice versa. I believe as drivers we need to research the companies we think we want to work for and be honest with ourselves as to what we REALLY want in a company.

 

Sounds like he's doing alright, the dictating the fuel stops & MPG would get on my nerves. My company offers us a generous bonus for getting good MPG to encourage us to get good fuel economy and just gives us a Comdata card and we can fuel anywhere that accepts Comdata. God bless him surviving his experience with Knight! I hear they are one of the bottom feeders of this industry. Too bad we don't have any freight routes in East TX, I know my company would give him a chance to get his feet wet if we did. We don't seem to get any further south than Missouri. We do have a few "different" rules at my company, it took me some getting used to but they actually made sense once I thought about it. There are several good companies out there, it just depends on what you're looking for in a company. Once he gets that "recent" experience under his belt, the doors of opportunity will start opening.

 

I find it difficult to pass up a two-for-one opportunity, so when I noticed two relatively new members meeting each other within one thread, ...... well, ..... I just couldn't resist saying

Welcome to TTR.

Swiss Mountain Dog
&
Wishfulthinking
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If I've read correctly, Swiss MD keeps the home-fires burnin' --- which, by the way, IMO, is the harder job, --- and WishfulThinking is a Big truck truck driver with a stay at home hubby.
I gotta say I find that interesting, --- a different twist on what's usually considered normal.

That bein' said, I'm glad y'all found TTR. And even gladder that you decided to join.