I am afraid that is about as responsible as I can get.

I am afraid that is about as responsible as I can get.

I have been trucking a long time (over ten years) actually worse than that. I managed to work night and day and now have a house paid off. I did not sleep much and super manipulated the log books to keep the dispatchers happy so I could have a job. The economy fell off a cliff in the fall of 2008 so I decided to get off the road because I was not getting any miles at all and use that time instead to fix up the house while waiting for trucking to rebound. The real money in trucking over the ten years has proven to be low because of their ways, so I figure to be a do it yourself fixing up the house as opposed to hiring it done with the no trucking money. Truckers just don't make that much to hire things done like that.
The 100 year old house is in terrible repair still. Had to install a new furnace, repair the roof, electrical and general carpentry, chainsaw trees, plant fruit trees, build fences, replace a shallow well water pump, repair a hot water heater, etc.. Burn 6 foot tall weeds down all around the house so it can be mowed and not look like wild kingdom anymore. Knock down an old 50 foot by 20 foot barn that got neglected to the point the roof was falling in. Salvage the 2 x 4 stringers to build another smaller shed to keep the riding mower and tools, etc. in. It took a little over a year to get where the place is livable from all that neglect. I call around to find a job trucking and get back out on the road for awhile. Now I am told that I have tooo many jobs on my record and been off for over a year. What the heck are they talking about. Of course, they are all fast money! They are in the trucking industry and know that and I am wanting back in. They don't have to remind me of that. Everybody knows they have a tweekin turnover thats unbelievable and can't behave thenselves! Thats not my fault. And to take a year off to get the house straightened out from all that neglect. I had to give my all to the truck lines. I came home for a visit not time off, I could not even mow the yard because when I did go home the grass was to high and then bounce off the house in 24 hours of sleep and call it 2 quality days off and back out on the road again. How can anybody be successful being a truck driver with that attitude going on.
One of the neighbors came over for a iced tea and they brought a thrifty nickel over to the lawn chairs laughing and said why don't you stuff envelopes instead for a living. He showed me the Employment section of the newspaper. There was help wanted for Surrogate Mothers (whatever that means), Assembling CD's from home, Truck Driving Jobs, Stuffing Envelopes from home, and a advertisment to buy information to get addresses to check on various Government jobs.
The neighbors watching and talking to me over the 10 years of Trucking apparantly think as much of Trucking as those stuffing envelopes ads. Looking at the employment section myself, it does look that way, the trucking and stuffing envelopes ads are all meshed together. All their friends laugh at trucking and see them as fast money and totally discredit the lot of them. Now that I look back and also look at this newspaper, that is interesting.
I went out trucking all that time doing my proving grounds with the truck, get a house paid for when I started out with nothing and manage to get it fixed up to be able to live in respectfully and then get this attitude from them.