Current thoughts on your trucking career?

I’m just trying to survive long enough to semi-retire and do something else. I’m ok with e-logs, but what is tapping away at my patience is the growing problem of the selfish, me, me, me, me, me mindset of today’s driver. And it’s not just the newbs. I know it’s in every industry and it’s a modern condition of society, but in our profession, a self-centered pos jerk can get people killed.

 

4 more yrs and I can hit the early retirement button.

 

gonna retire this year.
same as Clyde07, rude drivers, "phone disabled" drivers ,center lane obstructive drivers and I'm not talking just about cars.

 

i have a short time left till i'm gone. i could care less the 5 mph, or anything else,as my work night is not even 9-10 hours long. i am getting by.

i do not even take the required 30 minute break. i simply show that time at one of my stops. and i'm done with the rhetoric of it all.

then everyone else can keep quiet and do the job till their retirement, or get out, or bug the crap out of your elected officials.

 

Enlighten me. What's the 5mph rule?

 

I sold my truck over a year ago and went back to a small carrier I had spent 8 years at before that because I knew eld wouldn’t hardly affect what we do. My paychecks are the same as they were prior to Dec 18th.

 

I don't think you're going to find anyone running paper that isn't local.

I'm sort of with @buddyd157 . We don't have elogs. We're strictly timecard.