Local driving jobs: Route job vs. Construction/other

Your pace will not be your own. It's the bossman you will answer to. WHERE ARE YOU AT NOW!? lol...

 

I like ltl, boss don't mess with, and i just get it at my pace, one day i go fast, one day i go slow! I just enjoy the ride man.

 

I drove concrete mixers for six years. Mixers suck major ###. Dealing with illegals who no habla, contractors who want you to get the truck into impossible places cuz they are too cheap to rent a concrete pump, and crazy ### start times that change each day and you don't know until 1600 the afternoon before.

 

Yep, the last ready mix place I worked at wanted the trucks all nice and shiny-pain in the ### keeping those #### trucks clean. If it is raining or really windy,no work since slabs and flatwork cannot be poured in those conditions. You might work 50+ hours during the week and come saturday they have a lot of orders for concrete so you are working 6 days that week. And you might finish work on saturday afternoon and when you call the tape for your monday start time guess what-be at work at 0013,so there goes your sunday since you have to try to sleep all day to start that early. And some jobsites have safety nazis driving around hassling everyone-"where are your vest,hardhat,and safety glasses?" You show up to a residential jobsite at 1600 with 10 yards of concrete and have worked 10 hours already and the crew tells you they are pouring pieces of block wall footing all over the subdivision-you ain't getting home til after dark now. I could go on and on but you get the idea-#### driving concrete mixers!

 

Jesus, safety nazies? Ha. I run a mixer about a year here in Arkansas what with the acid baths and all keeping that thing somewhat clean... aint seen hide or hair of them tat all. Sometimes when it's too hot we dog pile the trailer on the ready mix at sundown waiting for midnight pours to start.

I spent some quality time with a wheeled front end loader feeding that plant sand and stone as well as chasing after bucket trucks and cleaning up after them. They are so untidy when dumping. Fun times.

 

Don't sugar coat it, driver. Tell us how you really feel!