Housing Options for First Year Trucker ?

Do you ever think about going AWOL?

 

No...















Why you gotta place I can hide out?

 

"The highway is your home"

 

Telescope, Texas.
~
I did that one time. May sound like a BS story, but I did say, "I'm going to the store, be back later." Got in the car and left and never returned. Left everything behind; tools, clothes, personal items, wife. Stopped at a store at the state line and bought a shirt; all I had was a T-shirt, jeans, shoes. She found me by phone one time on the opposite coast, but I hung up.
Did miss my tools for awhile, but just like a wife, can be replaced.
Felt like a ton of bricks lifted off my shoulders.

 

Wow. You should write a book..... no, seriously.

 

That

 

That is something I may not have mentioned although I implied it in the post. I don't have GF/Wife/Kids and not planning on having them . So I'm not super concerned with needing to come back to my hometown really often. I'll go back 3 or 4 times a year probably .

If anything I've really overstayed my welcome at home for about 7 years longer than I really should have. So they'll be happy to know I'm actually out and about making money instead of bumming around at home unemployed or underemployed (my usual situation age 21-28) .

Honestly if I did have wife / kids I dont think Id take this career path, I wouldn't want to be away from them for that long. Especially considering how terrible ive been at getting/maintaining any romantic relationship I'd be paranoid I'd lose everything away from them for so long.

 

how much is your stuff worth to you and how much is storage? you dont wanna be the guy paying 1200$ a year to store 800$ worth of stuff.

 

Have you traveled much?
If not, hit the road and see the country.

 

I actually did the same thing in 2015. Sold my house/land outside of Houston to move to hill country N of SA, in Boerne with a gf because her parents have 80ac with a guest house besides their main house.

I lasted 31 days. Long story short, 3rd strike was her throwing a fit because I wouldn't buy her a brand new Ford Fiesta to drive back and forth to work so she didn't have to put miles on her 2013 F250 (Lariat, 4x4,diesel). That was a Fri night, she didn't talk to me till Sun afternoon when I asked her to hold a wrench on a bolt while I tighted from the underside on a '77 International Scout. She let the wrench fall of the nut and didn't say anything, just let me keep spinning the bolt. I told her "just give me the wrench if you're not going to help me". Next thing I know, the 1/2" wrench came flying down at my head, I spun my head to the right, it hit the dirt, bounced and caught me right above my left eye. I then smacked my head on the oil pan I think. I called her every name I could think of, including making up some new ones.

When I got out from under the truck, I couldn't find her. She had run inside and got in the shower. I asked her "wtf"? She screamed at me to get out of the bathroom and said she never hit me with a wrench, she never had a wrench in her hand. At that point it was beyond obvious that she was bat #### crazy. I left for a few hrs, got back that night and when she left at 5:30 the next morning I packed all my stuff in my truck, dropped it off at my storage unit and headed N to IL for 3 weeks where my mom and her husband are. I ignored her for almost the whole 3 weeks.

Attempted to work it out when I came back after renting another place. That lasted all of 2 dates and she showed me yet again what a crazy, selfish, immature girl she was. Never spoke to her again.