Great Team looking for small company where we can have 1 rider

Big difference between a tribe and just a cpl with a kid.

Wanting to raise a child in a truck is a bad idea, very bad.

Beantown, if you can't go trucking without you family, trucking probably isn't for you?

As for your wife having heart problems? She probably wouldn't get hired on with the company anyway.

Check with the state you live in for help. You might be surprised at what help you can get for her and you child.

 

I was shoved into the"system" when I was 7 years old because the state didn't think my living quarters were adequate. In spite of having my own room and more stuff, I longed to be back with my daddy. He might not have been perfect, but he was MY daddy and I loved him then. Today, I love the person he became. Nobody can raise a child like that child's own family.

There are children raised in "unconventional" circumstances all the time and they end up pretty well adjusted. It's not the living quarters that make a home. It's the family. If Beantown can find a company that will allow him to keep his family together and maybe save up enough money to get that house with the picket fence and a day cab job, I say go for it and nevermind what others have to say. He has my wholehearted support in this.

The tepee doesn't have walls in it. When mom n dad want to have a little fun, everybody else just makes it a point to sleep through it. I see the truck as nothing more than a funny looking tepee on wheels that doesn't have to be broken down and then raised again. This boy will still have his "tribe." But he will have his father in his life too.

How many children go out on the road with trucking family members for a month or two at a time? Public schools have ruined most of our children. They can't think for themselves anymore. It's time to break out of the mold and get away from the "group-think" philosophy of child rearing.

I guess what I'm saying, respectfully, Les, because I like you, is you raise your family in the way that suits your family and let this man make the decisions for his.

He asked whether there is a company that will allow it. Let's see if we can answer his question without judging his decisions and making it seem more difficult than it needs to be.

 

There are families doing it. Some successful, others not. I too worry about the child socializing and having active time. HOWEVER, I'm not going to sit in judgement of you bean. (please forgive me for calling you bean but it just tickles the heck of me to do it)

So bean, here's what I know: most companies don't allow company drivers to do this. To do it would probably require you to become an owner operator or lease operator. Depending upon the company and your situation this could be good or bad.

With that said I will put in my two cents. What a child needs most is parents who love him/her, protection, shelter, food, education, encouragement, and the security of knowing those parents will go to hell and back for him/her.

Sports teams, school activities are great but not vital for a child. I've seen some of the most emotionally neglected children being shuffled between activities.

 

I completely disagree. Your confusing a life of tribes that happened a long long time ago with today's society.

To me a tribe would be my family as a whole not just my wife and kids, everyone. Your trying to use the term "tribe" to justify this. When in reality its a lack of common sense! Maybe its selfishness? I understand he has good intentions, but raising a kid in a truck is wrong! JMO.

Bean can do what he wants, he's the one who has to live with taking that kids childhood away not me. What a way to be raised, life seen thru a window at 70mph and your only friends are you parents.

Now, I'd have to say there is gonna be no chance of ever getting a kid in the truck legally with a company, whether it be O/O, L/O, or company driver. Maybe if he had his own truck and his own rights but not leased to a carrier.

 

Amen les.

with the kids health in question, why would you want to drag him around the country in a d@mn truck. weather it being his mental or physical health.....hell, i know when i feel like #####, the last place i would want to be is on the road, but we guys makin a living have to sometimes weather we want to or not.....the kid shouldnt...

plain and simple, the kid should have better options, period. thats whats wrong with most of the younger gereration today...the parents suck,make poor choices, which in turn the kid has to over come alot more.....

why cant you just get some kind of local job and just hang up trucking anyways?

 

alot of what you said is very true injun--but your parents werent working 24 hrs a day as this childs parents are--your life had more stability--more structure
if they want to take the kid with them for the summer or for holidays--that is great--i think it is pretty cool for them to see the world like that
but not all year in a truck--how is the kid supposed to interact with others--get excersise when the truck is moving 24/7
thee must be something better they could do
why not drive 2 weeks on and 2 off--but drive single?--that way one parent is at home with the child at all times?

 

I dont know what the local economy looks like where you are, but where i'm at its pretty bleak for most people. ya'll folks kinda irritate me with this looking down your nose crap. let's do a little comparison.

A)They take the kid out in the truck with them. He has no life, no friends, no real exercise time. But when he's got his parents right there with him to help him with his problems. on resets, they spend the time as a family, going to movies, national landmarks, etc......

B)Bean finds a local job in a ****** market. no wages, have to live in a dumpy, ghetto neighborhood. Dads never home, kid has typical ghetto friends, gets into dope and such mess. Dad has to work 2 or 3 jobs so he can pay for health insurance for his wife. And there is never any money to go do things as a family. Christmas and birthdays, dad has to feel like crap because he can't buy a decent gift......

C) Dad goes solo, leaving the family at home. Son has to deal with school, no dad at home, and mom's health problems, plus all the other crap teen and preteen boys have to deal with. And what happens (not trying to be crude) when he starts getting the "teepee"? A boy needs a dad to explain these things. What if something happens (God forbid) and mom goes in the hospital, and dad is 2000 miles away, son has no one to watch him, state takes over. Now son is under immense pressure from all different sides, and has no one to turn to. ....

So which sounds worse? i for one say that bean is making the right decision. I know these are worse case scenarios. But just watch the news. this is a worst case scenario time we are living in. So to the ones that are degrading the man who wants to take care of his family, especially in this day and age, i say that people like you are a big part of the problem in this country. Bean, i applaud you! :smt038

 

I could pick this whole post apart, but its too early and I've only had one cup of coffee so I'll make this one statement that will sum it up for everyone.

When he gets fired for having his son in the truck, whats next?

 

crete is the only one i know of that you can take a very young child in the truck--under 5 you need another parent or gardian--over five you dont need anything
i do have a friend who took her kid when he was just a baby with her all the time--had the baby seat riding riding shotgun