Cant do it anymore

I'm glad younger people won't put up with the crap that this job is. It's the only thing that's going to change it for the better. And don't anybody start with how great it used to be in the "good old days". I was here then and it sucked just as much if not more.

 

Lots of work in Flordia year round in my industry. Are you sure you want to do this? It worst than drugs, money that is. It's natural gas pipelines. Unions, inspectors,protesters the whole deal. Want more info pm me. Im off to work.

 

Doing what if I might ask?

I'm genuinely curious in other avenues of employment myself that don't have anything to do with driving for a living. I ended up driving yellow cab in NY for 9 months when I got truly fed up with the trucks for the first time and wanted out. Some nights were pretty fun but it just didn't pay the bills and got me into a heap of tax trouble (I paid it off). It was also a ticket trap and a license killer driving around in that stupid yellow car all night. I had to go crawling back to my class A job in Jersey. As awful as it is some days it actually pays a living wage so I had no choice but wasn't too happy about it.

 

The beauty of trucking is what you make it. There are so many different avenues to go in that you can always find your niche. I started out running containers back when it made money, and once the family rolled around, I found a job running oil tankers where I was home every night and played Daddy while the girls were growing up. Now that they are both in college, I had the ability to go look for a different job that provides a little bit more cash, and Hauling cryogenic tankers is where I found my niche. Is the trucking job I have perfect ? No, but it allows me to do what I love, and provides me a more than substantial income as an incentive. I plan on doing this until I'm 65, and after that it's retirement time.

 

This is what I worry about!That it's the same crap ,you only have further to work and you deal with much more city driving instead of cruising open highways.Oh and daycabs (drove one for 24 h and it was brand spanking new) are much less comfortable IMO.

 

Shaker day cabs is like torture

 

It was actually Prostar with 1000 miles on odo and foil on seats but I rember that I felt in my back every bump on the road.I guess that's because daycabs are shorter?

 

I was told a lot of is because I was use to a sleeper.

 

That's what I'm in a 14 Prostar. I can't get comfortable enough to take a nap. Working 10-14 hour days and only driving between 150-250 miles a day sucks having to sit upright in a drivers seat all day.

 

I had a day cab line haul job at Averitt 3rd shift and after 2 weeks I went back to regional because at 6'5" 235 that was not happening. But I must endure a huge paycheck to work in Chicago I did my best to avoid that place.