If you had to start over...

I'm not sure about the lifestyle vs. job thing. Maybe OTR. If I had to do over again I might have gone to a union shop right off the bat but I was in a position where no one would hire me because I had no record of employment for a year. Swift would not even hire me. But when I was local, it was a job certainly not a lifestyle.

 

I saw a 389 pulling a flatbed that had written on the back of the sleeper, like some of those trucks do.

"A cell, with a view"

At times, it is certainly that way.

 

It is all by design.


The Conspiracy to Destroy America's Trolley Systems

– How General Motors Deliberately Destroyed Public Transit

The StreetCar Conspiracy

 

I’m with you on that, and I only spent 6 over the road.

 

I've got 38 years on the road and I've come to love the life. I've earned a very good living and have raised 7 kids who all are college educated and I own 3 houses.No regrets.

 

I've witnessed company guy's go to ruin due to going from making $1.500 a week to being an owner operator and clearing $5.000 a week.If you're not prepared a breakdown brings ruin.

 

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Pretty much spot on what OTR is… Read the comments under that short video clip and all the drivers and all their regrets.


Lots of realities have to come into play to be able to make a lifestyle out of over the road trucking and have it not haunt your soul. You have to have a sense of adventure, a sense of unknown, you have to view each load you get as a mini adventure out on the road. Over the road truck driving hast to get in your blood in a way that you enjoy it overall or you’re just not gonna succeed at it. I think for those who it doesn’t end up being this way for, you just need to use it for a steppingstone to do something else. Save some money and get out. Otherwise you’ll regret it. I’m still on the fence and I’ve been doing this for four years. I do feel like life is passing by rather quickly doing this job. But there’s lots of aspects about it that sure beat punching a time clock or working in a cubicle or some Crap job like that.

 

Life passes by quickly regardless. If you're happy it's passing better.

 

Are you one now? If you are, how did you get into it during trucking?

 

If I Had To Start Over:

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