My Take On Being A Newbie

First, I don't think trucking sucks at all, trucking is not the problem, it's the people within. Re-read what was written.

There are way too many people sitting in carrier based trucking schools that have their eyes covered. They believe that it's different than it is. They only know what they were told.

They don't understand that this is work and there is more to it than pushing the clutch in and shifting into gear.

if you are someone that's been around awhile and are not a newbie, you have no reason to comment.

 

Semi retired,

you didn't offend me, this was directed at those that are newbies, haven't been around like us or as long as you have, which is longer than me obviously.

i just agreed to move on to Stevens Transport. Wanted to do OTR again but company I was with doesn't have more than regional.

ive already grew thick skin so no one can offend me.

 

Semi retired,

my father was an old cab over rover from JB Hunt, so I got to hear the stories when he got off the road for two days and sometimes even just enough time to rest his head.

I got into trucking because I wanted to just see the country and not a time clock day in and day out. I thought it was the best job there ever was until I woke up and realized that it's a job and not anything more or less.

i stuck it out these three years because I knew that it's harder for those above 40 to walk into a place, fill out and application and walk out with a job. Some get lucky like that, I didn't.

The government pushes jobs that are a dime a dozen and not jobs that matter. The really good jobs come with too much red tape and the jobs that are a dine a dozen only go to those with dime a dozen mentalities. The smarter you are, the less inclined anyone is to hire you.

this is why so many college grads are working for substandard wages, these days. Were cool, I am too old and too tired to hold grudges.