Linehaul question

the he only time I discourage so,done from going OTR is when they believe the myth they need to be OTR before local, which is untrue

 

Well I asked you almost 3 years ago, and you told me I had to run heavy haul before I could go local! Which is it!?
Or do you just not like me? I understand, I don't like me half the time and that's me. I can only imagine what other people think

 

Nah I don't like anyone so I do anything to cause chaos! You gotta run extreme heavy haul on a ship before you can run local with a truck!

PS I can barely remember what I did ten minutes ago I can't remember three years ago

 

This was from a thread that was closed/deleted because someone came in and started spouting off racist remarks where you told me how to get my PITA local job.

See?





(in case anyone hasn't grasped this yet, none of that above was even close to the truth.)
(He really just told me to go to hell.)

 

Most of my time trucking has been OTR and I couldn't wait to go local. After I got in my one year I went local and hated every second of it! I was like everyone else complaining about wanting to be home but it just wasn't worth it. I still didn't have a life working 12 hours a day and it was a lot harder work. After that I went linehaul and it's better than local but still not the same as OTR. I still work 12+ hours a day and it's all at night. So my sleep schedule is constantly messed up cause on my day and a half off every one wants me awake during the day. For me dedicated OTR was perfect and I can't wait till my daughter graduates so I can get back to it. I might even buy my own rig this time around and find a good job since I'm moving to the south.

Once you get OTR in the blood you can never get rid of it. The road just keeps calling you back. Until you run a Pete 379 with a CAT 550 and an 18 speed wide open on high alert looking for bears, listening for the radar detector, getting on the CB and calling out for bear reports every 5 miles, making it to NJ from CA in 42 hours in a team, you ain't a real trucker lol!

Seriously though you guys are missing out. Some of my best times were out on the road. Hit a blues festival in Memphis once, Mardi Gras, saw MT Rushmore, hooked up with quite a few women (no not lot lizards), partied my arse off several times. Jubitz Truck Stop in Oregon was just pure awesome with a separate bar and dance floor, hotel and 2 bars in the truck stop itself! I also had fun talking to the other truckers in the truck stops and on the CB. The problem is now all the old hands are gone or retired and now there are just a bunch of bottom feeders pumping out these new guys. Totally different out there now.

 

Current local job, can't quit until next year. Boss is hurting for drivers, we go through them at warp drive in this company. Guys get burnt out east and it's easy to see why. My biggest problem is that I've got a soft heart. His family has been so kind to me, his wife brings us lunch in almost every day and his dad even helped me throw a new radiator in my car this winter. He's asked me to stay till the end of the year and it's the least I can do.

Plus I'm sure I'll get a good reference out of it, for sure.

Come January/February I'm heading down to south Ohio to work for 50 months on an ASE certification course in diesel tech. Want it so I can do my own work later on in my driving career, as I plan to go o/o at some point, but certainly not for the next 3-5 years. (acctualy if any O/O's have an opinion on this, I'd love to hear it. I figure with the course costing around $6,500 and another $1,200 for a full tool set isn't a bad investment...especially when you consider what labor costs are in your average shop.)

Dunno about all that, but the day I decided maybe dumping in a 5 gal bucket lined with a few grocery bags, in an emergency, wasn't the worst thing that happened to a person might've been a milestone.

All I have to say is:

• Nicks BBQ in Carlisle, AR
• I-17
• Sitting through an I-80 shutdown for 3 days, being parked next to drivers who have bottles of various liquids of inebriating qualities for sale...
• I-40
• US 287
• And call me crazy, but I'll admit I'm a glutton for punishment- Effingham, IL.

 

50 Months? That's a hell of a program! You'd better be getting a master's degree out of it, LOL!

What's so bad about Effingham? I drive through there all the time.

 

Terminal to terminal or you just meet a driver a truck stop/rest area/staging area, swap trailers and turn around back to the terminal.

 

I never wrote that or made any racist comments

 

I got it out of blood real fast. Did it for two years and there is noooo way I would do it again. It's one of those things though - different things for different people. Nobody is right or wrong it's just a matter of opinion. Actually have had my two best friends at my terminal quit recently to run regional for a private fleet. I think they're off their rockers for sleeping in a truck but they think I'm off my rocker for staying here..haha..

I'm glad I ran otr and will always remember the experience but it's not for me. For me, it's come in, do my job, pay me for all work, then go home. Sleep and repeat.