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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ghostchild, post: 2589410, member: 24880&quot;]<img src="http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb130/graywolf43/Sweeping.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wow, it&#039;s been a while...time to sweep the dust and cob webbs out of this place...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, I&#039;m still in trucking...I sometimes think God is trying to proove a point with me...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So maybe now I&#039;ll listen...</p><p>But if I must be stuck in this &#039;marriage&#039;, I may as well make it work to my advantage...and that&#039;s exactly what I&#039;ve done...or am trying to do...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If someone told me a year ago, that I could have my cake and eat it to...I would not have believed them...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If someone told me a year ago that I could have my generic 9-5 schedual, you know...wake up and start between 6-8am...and be off by 2-5pm, and still earn a decent wage, I would have believed them, but would have asked &#039;how&#039;?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A year ago that scenerio seemed so impossible...unless able to get on with some local tanker company...and even then your forced to work at least 10-12 hour shifts...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>From this point on, I&#039;m not &#039;forced&#039; to do anything...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And to be honest with you...it really hasn&#039;t hit me yet...that&#039;s what conditioning does to you...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You become conditioned to a certain enviornment, a certain way..that finally when your chain is cut...you don&#039;t believe it, or still linger around...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Like your pet dog...if it&#039;s been chained up for years, when you finally cut the chain...it acts as if it&#039;s still chained...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And we humans tend to do the same...it&#039;s all about conditioning...</p><p>And most of us, expecially in trucking, aren&#039;t use to being &#039;free&#039;....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What we&#039;re use to is getting that call on Sunday evening, while barbequeing in back yard, and told</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.animationplayhouse.com/Telephone-1.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>&#039;You have a load that picks up tonight at 6 p.m.....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies-vb/roundies/biggrin_25516.gif" class="mceSmilie" alt=":biggrin_25516:" unselectable="on" />....150 mile dead head (3 hours or so), and then delivers in Sauceville, Kentucky by 8 am...this load cannot be late...click...</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>Continued on next post...</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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