Need a little advice

Especially not for truckers! When I left driving, I was still 230lbs, with an 18" neck. Within a year, I'd lost 50 lbs, and 2" off my neck! All those miles and miles of bad roads on an air-ride seat with a sliding isolator really build up your neck muscles!

 

If you drive 120,000 miles a year at .48 cpm that’s $57,600. That might be low mileage because the speed limits are higher. It also depends on how many miles the trucking company has to keep you running. I started running cross country runs out for weeks at time. Now doing regional is lot less miles every week. The runs keep getting shorter and shorter. I have guaranteed minimum pay but it’s not $60,000 a year.

You can stay in your truck if you want to and get motel just to get out of the truck once in a while. You can keep running week after week. Most drivers do 34 hour reset at the truck stop and just keep going.

 

Lower pay and a truck that has some miles on it.

 

You can look on internet. My company has guaranteed minimum pay of $900 or $1000 a week depending if you run 7 days a week or 5 days a week and 2 days at home. It’s very had to get lots of miles running regional because of so many drop and hooks. It not just up to the driver you get stuck live loading because they did not preload trailers for you.

 

If you run regional and get paid per mile, you're getting screwed.

 

Speaking of CPAP . Was told to get tested back when covid started. Sent me home with a self-test. Next thing I know I'm using the machine. Used it for a few years but then slowed down the usage because they changed nose parts and I was more uncomfortable using the machine. So I haven't used it for months. No one monitors me. MY PC doctors office DOT Dr retired, and they no longer do testing. Always got a 2yr. January went to clinic and Dr only gave me a 1 yr says BP was too high. Wasn't feeling good and nervous about Cpap issue. They really didn't say much about it. Another place across town wants to see 90 days of compliance with CPAP. Can I just leave out the usage of Cpap as I don't use it anymore?
I told mu PC i don't use it anymore and he didn't seem concerned.