Miscalculated + farewell

This thread may soon get locked up. I just want to say some people who are healthy enough to continue to drive into their 70s may not have any other choice. I know several examples of people being forced to continue working well into their 70s.

 

Or some may just because they want to.
I'm only 65 but work 70 each week because I want to.
Already collecting 2 pensions.
The wife who is retired will start collecting her pension soon and we are sitting on 1.2 in our 401 and Roths. If I started collecting my SS tomorrow I could pull 60K per year for the next 20. Plenty to get by on.But I still enjoy the challenges of day to day operations most times.
Besides each year adds to my SS.
So if they don't run out of money before I do I will have a happy retirement for as long as I'm above ground, but it will be my choice or the states and not an internet forums.

 

This is true and I won't argue the point. I was really directing my point to @201 . I know a lot of men that are 65+ who are driving simply because their wives passed on or left them. I was talking to somebody I know that said one of his drivers is still paying off a medical/funeral home bill from his oldest daughter's sickness and death. You are 100% right. I was just trying to point out some of the older guys are still driving because they have to. Heck, I know several older people male and female that are way past 70 that work at Walmart because they can't make it on social insecurity.

 

That's a good point. I know a couple of guys that made bad financial decisions late in their working life and like one of them said "I better keep working 'til I fall I down dead". They're bitter angry men and they usually blame everybody but themselves for what happened to them.
I don't have to work, everything I have is paid for, but I enjoy what I do. I enjoy it even more 'cause I don't have to do it if that makes sense.
I'm not wealthy, not by today's standards, but I'm enjoying what I'm doing. When I don't enjoy it any more I'll quit doing it.

 

From the 80s on to 2012, I invested a lot of my pay. I also got really lucky with real estate. I have written this several times. I would go Monday through Friday only eating 2 meals a day. I wore my clothes until they got threadbare. I wore holes in my shoes. I never really bought a lot of electronics other than a CB and a small cooler. Thankfully I am OK today because of this. I was 54 years old when I learned I would never drive a CMV again. Yes, I could have got social security disability I guess. I don't miss driving, but I do miss the atmosphere.

Next year I have some decisions to make with regard to medicare and social security. I want to try to speak to someone to guide me through this process before Keri leaves for Tenn. With my 1099 income, medicare is going to cost me a small fortune.

 

Ok how in the world did this thread get turned into "at what age should a driver should retire"? This is what the OP wrote (quoted down below). I'm amazed at how badly some of these threads get derailed lol.

 

Reo didn't you say on here before that you own your own trucking business that's pretty specialized as far as trucking goes? I would say that's pretty wealthy. Also, I didn't realize you were in your mid 70's. That kind of explains your very calm demeanor on this site, even after putting up with everyone's crap on this site (including my own from time to time lol).