i am making over 2 times more than i have ever made in my life...

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by GenericUserName, Sep 20, 2014.

  1. GenericUserName

    GenericUserName Road Train Member

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    I could see myself loving it locally, or if i didnt have familial obligations at home that make me feel guilty every time i go back out on the road again.

    But yeah, im doing this because i laughed at my school teachers about the importance of tests.
     
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    Well God help me then. I love this job may dislike parts here and there but still love at the end of the day or I would go put that collage education to use.
     
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    10-4, driver. I still wouldn't trade it for a 9-5 office job.Worst day trucking is better than the best day in a cubicle - or something like that.
     
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    Thats right I have had many jobs over the years I started at 13 a full time out side if the home job anywhere from food service to construction to computer networking and nothing beats driving a truck for some of us diesel fuel runs though our veins. Only other job I had that gave me satisfaction was as a special needs care giver.
     
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  5. 6 Speed

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    The thing that bums me out about trucking is there is never a sense of completion as in "it never ends."
     
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    Wargames Captain Crusty

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    I like just driving around in circles, going to BIG truck stops and yelling on my CB, WHERES ALL
    THE FAT GIRLS................
     
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    About the only thing that I miss in trucking are all o' them "sexual therapists" that came pounding on my door in the middle of the night.
    I kept a Mickey Mouse hat and two black socks in the top bunk just for the occasion.
    Heck, even they demanded more pay when they worked overtime.
     
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    No, your ideas frighten me. Again I ask why haven't you built your own company since all the rest are evil? You've had plenty of time. You're not disadvantaged in any way. Why do you keep complaining when you could be doing something?

    The real truth is that you and your kind are the Pharaohs of today. You don't want to build anything, you want it to be built for you. You promote far-reaching social programs without understanding how they are sustained. Your idea of a utopia shackles the working and able.

    Of course that frighten me. I've worked for all I have earned. I'm building my own company. I'm doing.

    You're wanting to take from me so that you don't have to work quite so hard, but your system does not work if no one picks up the slack. Your true desire is to become the slaver and you don't even realize it.
     
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    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    all drivers are schizophrenic
    cant wait to get a load
    cant wait to get rid of said load
     
  10. 6 Speed

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    Have you ever discovered the operator who travels the country with no panties on?