Is missing the "trucker" lifestyle normal

I drove truck when I was younger, always wanted to since I was a kid. Finally went to CDL school then drove for a while. Money locally where I lived sucked and my wife at the time hated me being gone. I left trucking for a job as a 9-1-1 dispatcher. Spent a year and a half in a dispatch center then became a cop for seven years. Finally after inner battles I decided to get out of law enforcement (couldn't deal with ###-hat crooked know-nothing power-tripping cops anymore) and I got back into trucking. Drove company for a year then bought a truck and went O/O last March. Best decision I ever made. Truck driving is like a drug.

 

The only way to get it out of your blood is with a transfusion!

 

The trouble with trucking, is it's a relatively easy job, the truck does all the work, and you just keep it on the road.( with exceptions, of course). One forgets quickly what some poor people have to do in their jobs, and once you've trucked, it's like, you always know there's an easier way. Over my career, I've taken breaks from trucking, did something else for a while, but always came back to trucking, and as an older man, few jobs are there for older people, and at 60 years old, sitting in a warm truck sure beats shoveling snow or stacking 2x4's, or whatever.

 

I been out since July and am getting out the truck this January possibly for good and already miss it xD

(Currently in Montana snow BTW.... Lol)

 

It is a known fact. Trucking is the most unhealthy industry in the world. Drivers die 10 hrs earlier and are unhealthy.

 

My uncle was an o/o. He drove till he was in his 70's. And is now 85. He was probably the exception to the rule.....lol
He worked with some good brokers. But he can still remember the names of a couple of brokers that still owe him money...lol

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4346636]The trouble with trucking, is it's a relatively easy job, the truck does all the work, and you just keep it on the road.( with exceptions, of course). One forgets quickly what some poor people have to do in their jobs, and once you've trucked, it's like, you always know there's an easier way. Over my career, I've taken breaks from trucking, did something else for a while, but always came back to trucking, and as an older man, few jobs are there for older people, and at 60 years old, sitting in a warm truck sure beats shoveling snow or stacking 2x4's, or whatever.[/QUOTE]Spot on. 60 hours inside a building is nothing like 60 hours driving a truck to different vendors.
I'd go postal inside a building 240hrs a month, Others dictating my breaks or hanging off my shoulder. Seeing the boss everyday is a huge problem also