Could I drive in rural areas?

I used to drive a bit for Cargill out of Abilene tx, drive animal feed to ranches and those types of stores. Was the easiest driving I ever did, on top of that was home every night.

That is just an example, it aint a rare thing.

 

Made a small adjustment

 

Same thing about car hauling.
Load out in metro areas then visit
dealers in every town over a couple thousand population and very tight in the lots but always unattended deliveries

 

When I lived in Washington DC I had a nervous breakdown due to the rising traffic gridlock. Was on doctors care, but it couldn’t get my hands from shaking. Took a vacation to Florida and laid on the beach for a week (off peak). When that didn’t help I moved to the country. Nearest neighbor is 2/3 of a mile. Stopped slaking after 18 months.

Not interested in mileage pay anymore. I don’t care if it’s 50 CPM. That still works out to $13-14 an hour.

 

Take care of your health first and foremost
Have you looked at getting into another profession ?

 

Drive log truck local, in the woods, exempt from elog.

 

True... I have a local company who's main business is transporting liquid fertilizer to farmers/ranchers. Says it's great. Meet the farmer with a handshake. He is setting up two areas for the same. Wanting to set people up to live there. They are around Austin, Tx. and Visalia, Ca.
He was running reefers when not busy with fertilizer. Getting rid of them. It's too much of a hassle with the shippers. Finding something else.
If you're interested.... I can PM you the company. It isn't big.

 

Milk truck. I drive a class A tanker truck for Walton milk hauling. Starting pay 55k per year, rural route (farm pickup) and home daily day cab

 

Have you tried night driving? LTL linehaul involves mostly running through the night when there is minimal traffic. As far as rural trucking, there are definitely opportunities out there. Anything dealing with farms should keep you pretty rural. Milk tanks stay somewhat rural. Im guessing cattle trucking stays somewhat rural. Then there is always the oil fields if you want to be really rural ahaha.

I think it would be much more simple to just learn to cope with traffic and odd hour work, but I dont know you or your life sooo ....

 

I grew up not far from there. I tell you this.

I had a bomb of a car, something like a old Ford GT with a 351 in it, 70 or 71 I forget which. Anyhow the engine and so forth were bulked up, bored out and so forth. Made for a very good top end car. It was a rust bucket in the fenders and trunk. Constant bondo work and scraping.

I show up on the 495 in the rush morning traffic among the Mercedes and BMW's etc that are very expensive with that rust express. You wont believe the expressions of hatred and aggressive traffic I have seen on that beltway. HA.

Never mind running a 18 wheeler into there. Did that for years. I finally just bypass the whole thing on a nice quiet US 15 or 301.

Coming out of Maryland into the south was a good move on my part. Things take it slow here and take time. And does not cost anywhere near as much.