My husband's new career and his trainer

@otterinthewater isnt WE headquarters in Nashville?

 

Man, I'm hoping Otter WASN'T the trainer~!

 

Training will wear anyone down. It's a huge adjustment going on the road with a stranger and sharing a tiny little space smaller than most bathrooms. And add the fact his trainer is a twat waffle. Yeah, I feel his pain. Just tell him to think of the money will that hopefully soon be flowing his way. Depending on what kind of driving he's doing and who he's working for. We get some pretty big checks sometimes.

The road is full of a-holes so when he is out by himself in his own truck he will still have to deal with some verbal abuse now and then. Sometimes from shippers and receivers, sometimes it's other truck drivers on the road, then your dispatcher calls you and chews you out for not doing something. Shouldn't happen all the time, but it'll happen from time to time.

Once in Chicago behind a strip mall of Mannheim Road I had a JB Hunt driver pull up behind my truck he got out and started yelling at the top of lungs. Dropping all kinds of slang and saying the #### word, right out side my customer's door. He wanted me to move for him. He was a BIG kid, too. I wasn't going to move, but my codriver caved and moved it. Anyways, it was probably better to just move it. I didn't want a fight. I don't know how.

 

Oh ok. I thought you meant that the company headquarters was located in Nashville

 

I had several trainers that were fearsome. Only when the roared. Otherwise you heard and felt nothing from the right seat. I lost track of three that were very good drivers, a credit to the industry. Over the years.

This industry has suffered I suppose from a reputation and or good will point of view. I remember back when truckers were true knights or kings of the road taking care of those that need of it. That was the original impression long ago. Minus the other side of it.

Im less inclined to stop these days due to a change in our society and a increase in higher threat level. It's unfortunate. But all in all you always lose the good ones.

 

I like driving the Dakotas in the spring/summer months! It's good for trucks, lots of parking available. In the winter I had my trailer jackknife on me one night around 11PM or so west of Sioux Falls. A blizzard has just blown through. Roads were plowed, but not salted. I had a feeling not to drive. But my codriver had a relative in the hospital in critical condition and he was freaking out. So I said alright, I'll roll but just drive slow. Even at 35MPH my trailer got away from me. That was after I had an ice cold shower at the truck stop out there somewhere. In the winter everything up there is cold, even their hot water apparently. lol X)