Does Leaving home Get Easier In This Industry?

You are only leaving for a few days or weeks. It's not like you are going to be gone for years.
Been there done that. 2 1/2 years was the longest for me.
If it disturbs you that much, maybe find a local, home every night job.

 

I usually stayed pretty close to home but during fire season there were a lot of years when we'd leave in June and not get home 'til November. I got so I hated every minute of that.

 

Guess it just depends how much u hate what ur doing or if u rather be at home rather then driving.. I hate leaving the family behind but they are proud to watch me go down the road with the family name on the side of the truck, and the stories i bring back home... Of course u kinda end up like a legend in peoples minds. U exist but only sometimes . Most times ur nothin but a memory or a funny story thats gettin told to the next generation .. Just try to cherish every moment u have with them.. Sometimes its difficult because u come off the road and ur wore out and dont wanna doing nothing but rest. And i find im not good at talkin to people much anymore ever since i started driving unless it is other truck drivers or other people in my family in similar trades that see alot of weird #### everyday and we can swap stories.. Lot of regular people cant really wrap their head around the life of a truck driver.. Especially when its ur entire life and dont spend time doing anything else

 

Simply to answer your question, no it isn’t hard to leave the house. I’m 37, no wife or girlfriend, and no kids. I only go home to swipe the spiderwebs up in my empty house and to get my truck worked on.

 

difficult to give an exact answer. the Mrs and me have 5 kids.

so leaving home was many times, if not all the time, hard not just for me, but the Mrs, as she is then left to her charges, as well as the home front.

but my life "on the road" as far as long haul, did not last long. as soon as i gained enough experience, i was able to get into regional and not be away for weeks at a time, but only days.

i did not like. nor appreciate being an "absentee dad".....

i knew of special events going on with the kids, like the Christmas pageant, or Prom, or that first date.

luckily for me i did not miss out on everything, especially those "first dates", when i answered the door and stared down the young guy(s) wanting to date my girls....

good times.......

 

I would be more worried about how your wife views you leaving home. Getting a new family is a lot more expensive than getting a different job. Women initiate 80% of divorces and most men are shocked when their wife announces she wants a divorce.

 

This is why I run local. I enjoy my home life when off work and sleeping on my own bed. No pun intended for you OTR guys.

 

that's right...men may be "the boss of the house", but the wife IS THE BOSS of the husband......

i also found it to be true about women and thier men, depending on parts of the country. here in the east, women want thier men home every day.

where as midwest states? the women "can be" more accepting of time away from home, as the trucking routes dictate the freight

here, we have an overabundance of freight, where as maybe in the midwest, not as much and the truckers have to be out longer for that ??

i dunno, an observation i gathered over the decades.