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Message:: [QUOTE="Big Don, post: 2832695, member: 10351"]One thing you folks who are complaining about being bored, might want to remember - at least you are TRUCKING.  You could be working the dock, or a warehouse or production line some where.  Or even worse, in a cubicle. This is exactly what YOU make of it.  In driving, we have all that windshield time that often turns into worry time, or day dreaming time.  Sometimes, it is way to easy to get the old "what ifs" or "if onlys."  This isn't so true with the local P&D folks as their time is mostly spent paying attention to the job. But when you are line haul and do the same run all the time, it is really easy to fall into this rut.  It's also easy to become a victim of "highway hypnosis." Some of the things I liked the most about my job, was the same things that I hated the worst.  THE CUSTOMER.  Most of them were really pretty good folks, but the jack arses that were there, made up for the good ones.  And you deal with them just about every day, sometimes more than once a day. I worked for a fairly small company, so I had a whole lot of different stuff going on.  We had a pretty big, and mostly rural area, with just a few drivers to cover it.  So a typical day could find me with everything from pups to '53s to sets. Pretty much stayed with the same assigned tractor though.  Unless I had to take a smaller straight truck for some reason.[/QUOTE]