Drugs available on the road

I understand your thoughts about separating yourself from those people who would bring you right back to it if your around them! Yes getting on the road will get you away from them and HELP with that part of it but you have to be the one that really wants to stay clean.

 

I’m not gonna judge you, we all have a past. I’m just gonna say this. If you can’t or don’t feel like you can completely leave the drugs behind and/or alcohol, don’t go into trucking. Not until you’re sure you can. Specially with stuff like meth and speed and crap like that. That #### even after you quit it haunts your soul for quite a while. Probably 18 months to two years before you kind of forget about it. Myself personally, I’ve never had a problem with illegal drugs although alcohol was kind of my weakness pre-trucking. I drank three or four nights a week, woke up with a hangover three or four mornings a week, once I went into trucking I gave that up. It was just a natural progression because you can’t drink out on the road. You can try, but it won’t work out. So I just gave it up. All together. Maybe once a month I’ll go out when I’m home and I’ve got several days off and there’s Uber and it’s safe and I’ll go tie one on. But that’s about it.

Trust me brother, you gotta leave the drugs well behind you before you go into trucking.

 

Only place I've had somebody try to sell me drugs was when I was driving through Bronx NY at 3am.

At least, I assume that's what the guy wanted when he shouted, waved, and started walking towards my truck when I was making a turn and then went back to the corner when I kept driving

 

Not gonna say it wasn’t....but for years that was standard lumper procedure.
Back when you(if you wanted) would hire local help to unload